noun
masonry; masonry structure
Technical term in architecture and construction for structures built by assembling individual units like brick, stone, or concrete blocks.
この建物は組積造で、レンガが使われている。
This building is of masonry construction and uses bricks.
組積造の壁は、石やコンクリートブロックを積み上げて作られる。
Masonry walls are made by stacking stones or concrete blocks.
レンガ造 means brick construction, a subtype of 組積造.
Compound of 組 (kumi, 'assembling') + 積 (seki, 'piling up') + 造 (zō, 'construction'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term transparently describes masonry as a method of stacking and assembling units.