Outside of churches and later various latin American revision/restructuring the Spanish did use bricks, and often times used the neoclassical designs themselves for the very structure types you mentioned. E.g. the stucco plaster shit you see all over Latin America is 99% repair work done well after the fall of the Spanish empire. Shit, we've been using bricks on a massive scale for 1000+ years. The common red mortar bricks most people recognize go back to the 1500s if Im not mistaken.
That's like saying "how come the world uses suspension bridges (starting not long after the aforementioned time frame) instead of arch & keystone method stone bridges???"
Just playing devil's advocate here with simplistic reasoning that can be easily researched. As mentioned before, im no expert on the US history involving SF & Chicago. Lol I only opened my trap in your post because I've heard so much conjecture from "experts" about Eastern and Northern Europe about said "mud flood" and it's super easy to debunk. Witness wise, there's millions of people still alive today in the former USSR that literally had a hand in the reconstruction due to communism. Additionally, all of these counties kept very good books on the processes and details of said work.
Outside of churches and later various latin American revision/restructuring the Spanish did use bricks, and often times used the neoclassical designs themselves for the very structure types you mentioned. E.g. the stucco plaster shit you see all over Latin America is 99% repair work done well after the fall of the Spanish empire. Shit, we've been using bricks on a massive scale for 1000+ years. The common red mortar bricks most people recognize go back to the 1500s if Im not mistaken.
That's like saying "how come the world uses suspension bridges (starting not long after the aforementioned time frame) instead of arch & keystone method stone bridges???"
Just playing devil's advocate here with simplistic reasoning that can be easily researched. As mentioned before, im no expert on the US history involving SF & Chicago. Lol I only opened my trap in your post because I've heard so much conjecture from "experts" about Eastern and Northern Europe about said "mud flood" and it's super easy to debunk. Witness wise, there's millions of people still alive today in the former USSR that literally had a hand in the reconstruction due to communism. Additionally, all of these counties kept very good books on the processes and details of said work.