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Maison La Roche
The windows of Le Corbusier’s Maison la Roche. Inside the gallery a long curved strip window is installed above the curving ramp and as one …
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007 Assisi / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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006 London / Foligno / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
…ger or smaller than usual. In Europe where heat insulation takes priority over aeration the airtight DK (Dreh-Kipp) window (which tilts at t…
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America (1)
…frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the original American houses were actually built in accordance with the respective backgr…
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005 Paris / Paris / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Nando’s
The window of a restaurant in London. An alcove has been created in the thick wall that forms a part of the structure of the railway above. …
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004 Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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House for an Art Lover
A window of the restaurant in the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It combines a fixed window with c…
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003 London / York / Utrecht
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
…lready open space. Whereas in Europe homes are made out of walls and windows are decorations that one adds to the walls if one can afford to…
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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
…e standard sizes designed for Europeans. Diaz Alonso: Well it doesn’t work. Japanese fashion unfortunately doesn’t work for me either! We’re…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
…r dynamics in the Balkans and Europe and a general movement toward restructuring our social and ethnic polities. In the same 20 years the in…
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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
…ioning as mirrors. Masuda: In Europe especially in Italy windows are set in thick stone buildings almost as if stained to the body of those …
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
…as the largest of its kind in Europe. When observing this building one should note that although the overall appearance is very much Chinese…
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Hintermayer
The window of a bookshop in Vienna. Books and small goods are set into the thickness of the wall turning the interior windowsill into a show…
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The scene of brilliant street
…acteristics of this season in Europe including Paris is the gloomy sky over the town with weak sunlight but the street increases the pump. T…
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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
…entirely true at least not in Europe. I realized that there was an interesting issue here when I was working with the building industry in E…
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Architecture in Photography and Windows
Iwan Baan is a photographer whose work has taken him around the world from Asia to Africa. Last year he participated in a panel discussion o…
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Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”
…e world including Tohoku Asia Europe and Africa. In the final part Professor Hiroto Kobayashi looks back and shares his thoughts on the proj…
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Michele de Lucchi and Windowology
…re for companies in Italy and Europe. Served as the design director of Olivetti from 1992 to 2002 and led experimental projects for Compaq P…
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Pousadas Santa Maria do Bruno
A window in the corridor of an old monastery renovated as a hotel in Bouro Braga. It was designed by Souto de Moura. The slender steel sash …
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Via Altabella Toyshop
The window of a shop designed in Bologna by Carlo Scarpa. The window which combines two circular shapes is fixed to the façade from which it…
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Into the Depth of the Window
…that has been adopted in most European countries where the clock is set forward by one hour during summer months. The idea of British Summer…
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Window into Another Culture
… one of the biggest issues in Europe. We intended to achieve four aims in building this community house. The first aim was to implement a …
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
…d saved up money and traveled Europe for an extended period of time visiting a lot of architecture. I started from Italy and travelled to Sw…
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Osteria Baracco
The window of a restaurant in Porto Venere. The arched window is made of folding doors the inside of which become display shelves for wine. …
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fear and pleasure, and as theater
…ican people. A lot of Eastern European people are living there. For this reason I feel a different type of bustle and smell from that of the…
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Sunny Loggia House
…and Germany followed by other European countries and around the world. Today the term is in English dictionaries of architectural terms. The…
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Fresca
The window of a restaurant in Mykonos Greece. A set of table and chairs are arranged within the low-ceiling alcove around the window. A set …
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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment Paris has kept the skylin…
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Tracing the urban brickscape
As surprising as it may seem I feel that the true quality of a city such as London lies in its “disorderliness”. Within the city countless e…
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Corleone
The window of a restaurant in Prague where two small tables are arranged within the thickness of the wall. The alcove in which the window is…
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Palma
The window of a flower shop in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. A wooden rain shutter is stored under the low-hanging eaves and can be folde…
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
… in Denmark but also in other European countries the concept of sliding doors had yet to be invented. The Japanese fusuma which allowed one …
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Villa Le Lac
A continuous series of windows facing the water in the Villa Le Lac designed by Le Corbusier for his mother. The eleven meter long windowsil…
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Willow Tearooms
The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twenty-two fixed and double-swing windows ma…
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La Medusa Ristorante
The windows of a restaurant in Porto Venere. A pair of outward-opening windows sits between fixed windows of the same size on either side cr…
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Mumtaziar Preserved House
The windows of a house in Safranbolu. A built-in bench sits below the row of wooden single-hung windows. Mumtaziar Preserved House 2 Preserv…
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Suleymaniye Camii
The window of a mosque in Istanbul. The space around the window becomes an alcove into which people can enter. On the interior a wooden door…
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A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2
…s which was often employed in European churches in the ancient and medieval eras (A buttress is a supporting structure that sticks out from …
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Bianco
A showcase window in Napoli’s Centro Storico. Government policies regulate shops’ showcase windows along the street resulting to a certain e…
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The Origin of the Idea
…so different from that of the European houses. In Europe the window really feels like it is a barrier between us and the boundary between th…
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Turkisk House
The window of a house in Mostar Bosnia & Herzegovina. The window projects out like a terrace fitted with a wooden handrail and screen wi…
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Tugendhat House
The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in the space created by two layers of glass w…
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Spinnery Restaurant
A window in a restaurant in Bowness on Winderemere which is famous for its lakes. A bench is built-in to the semi-circular window called a b…
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Blackwell
A window in the Main Hall of a house designed by Baillie Scott in Bowness on Windermere. The bay window is built next to the fireplace compl…