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A window with a memory
I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and p…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
…pe Asia the United States and Latin America. From his early single-family houses in Ticino his work has expanded to encompass many other bui…
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wa…
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Casa Barragan
The window looking onto the inner garden of Louis Barragan’s house is divided into a large fixed window and a lattice window. The bottom lef…
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Casa Priet Lopez
A window looking onto the garden of a house built by Louis Barragan in the wealthy residential neighborhood of San Angel in Mexico City. Whi…
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Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch
An artist contemplates a blank canvas or a white piece of paper in the studio or at a table perhaps waiting for a memory or some inspiration…
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…
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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with architects / architectural critic working…
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A Conversation on Windows and Stories
This is a video of a conversation on windows and stories between architect Hiroshi Hara and contemporary artist Leandro Erlich. Filmed on Ap…
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Boca Mina San Ramon
A window in a restaurant next to La Valenciana silver mine on the outskirts of Guanajuato. A cylinder is inserted into the thick wall—on the…
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Hostal Vallarta
A window looking out onto an interior courtyard in a hotel in Guadalajara. The arch-shaped opening made with inexpensive steel angles is div…
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The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series in which she has used photography to capture the distance between h…
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Loncheria Cocos le Club
The window of a sandwich shop near Lake Chapala in a town on the outskirts of Guadalajara. The counter is used as a table with chairs lined …
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Camino Real Polamnco Mexio
The window of a guestroom in a hotel by Ricardo Legorreta. One can walk out into the large garden. Camino Real Polamnco Mexio 1 Hotel / Mexi…
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the con…