Over the years, one unique tradition has been growing among architecture students: building a pizza oven. To help maintain this tradition, we decided to share this small guide for a 1.20m diameter mini-oven. Follow these easy steps and quick tips to build your own crust-worthy oven.

Over the years, one unique tradition has been growing among architecture students: building a pizza oven. To help maintain this tradition, we decided to share this small guide for a 1.20m diameter mini-oven. Follow these easy steps and quick tips to build your own crust-worthy oven.

Cortesia de Baú / Escola da Cidade

During the first steps, building the base of your oven, you'll have to make a few decisions that will determine how much flexibility and how many choices you'll have later in the process. Here are a few helpful hints:- Don’t forget to think of a dry place for wood storage.- Leave a border space greater than the 1.20m of the oven for support.
- The bricks of the base where the pizza is placed should be placed at 45 degrees from the mouth of the oven. This reduces the possibility of getting the pizza peel stuck when handling the pizza. You may want to use refractory brick here, but keep in mind it’ll be a bit more expensive.

- You can make any kind of base you want, but for a conventional U-shaped base, you will need approximately 250 bricks.Now for the oven:Necessary Materials:
220 bricks
12 cans (18 lit...