curtain wall
A curtain wall is a generic name for a non-load-bearing wall. The wall can be removed as it does not carry any structural load. Materials include metal panels, plate glass, or glass blocks. The development of curtain walls has facilitated the glass facades of modern buildings.
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The Experimental Design of the House in Sapporo
…9) incorporated new building technologies such as curtain walls structured by a weathering frame, mu…
12 Apr 2023
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums, stations, billboards, buildings, refrigerators, thermostats, on ou…
25 Jan 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The…
15 Dec 2022
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico
At age 62, after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years, artist Georgia O’Keeffe…
24 Jun 2022
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Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)
…ecture of Matsu’s villages evolved. I doubt curtain walls will become an established part of t…
25 May 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
09 Dec 2021
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…e room’s 2.8-meter-tall by eight-meter-long glass curtain wall is one of the largest windows in the …
22 Oct 2021
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
…ally the world’s first industrially prefabricated curtain wall systems ever implemented. I wrote “es…
04 Aug 2021
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
Peter Märkli, one of Switzerland’s leading architects, started his career after meeting his mentor, …
17 May 2021
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An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory
Here is a graphic novel spanning more than 300 pages that allows readers to experience millions of y…
26 Jan 2021
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Shizuka Yokomizo｜Today/Yesterday #1
Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves …
14 Jan 2021
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Nature Behind a Curtain Wall
…closer and tried peeking through the glass of the curtain wall to see inside. Tokyo, its trees and b…
02 Sep 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
…hinnest façade construction we’ve ever designed—a curtain wall of glass that is in itself highly eff…
17 Jun 2020
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The Architecture of the Window
In addition to his design practice, the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a …
07 May 2020
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Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work
Chiharu Shiota is an ever-active Berlin-based artist. In works such as her large-scale installations…
15 Oct 2019
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Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander
Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self, an artist is often restrained by the fr…
03 Feb 2020
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
…shot illustrates well the way the non-loadbearing curtain wall attaches to the concrete structure an…
09 Jul 2021
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), has rese…
12 Dec 2018
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along th…
28 Feb 2017
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Part 3 Shokatei at Katsura Imperial Villa
Members of the Imperial Family were the first to enjoy the luxury of tea, a valuable item at that ti…
03 Oct 2018
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh, who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real bu…
01 Oct 2018
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Part 5: To China International Window City!
… homepage, it is Asia’s largest door, window, and curtain wall industry exhibition and trade center.…
22 Aug 2018
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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
…hange. I’m interested in the new possibilities of curtain walls, for example. The curtain wall doesn…
11 Oct 2016
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
…-14, we actually started with a more conventional curtain wall. The first version of that building w…
27 Sep 2016
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects, including houses, a church, a stat…
06 Sep 2016
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worl…
06 Sep 2016
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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
…self-reflecting, so if you go out and work with a curtain wall manufacturer and you work in practice…
06 Sep 2016
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The Overhanging Village : Kinnaur District, India, Part 1
…al wall is light and surrounded by planks, like a curtain wall. Both the tower’s roof as well …
14 Mar 2018
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Boundary Window
…e façade appeared to be a cut-out building with a curtain wall system. Its scale was hard to underst…
27 May 2016
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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 evolvin…
17 Sep 2015
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Part 2: Apertures for View
Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources, as ventilation, and as portals…
18 Oct 2017
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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 phot…
26 Sep 2016
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
Fleeting and weak though it is, light in Scandinavia has a mysterious kind of allure to it. Could it…
20 Sep 2017
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature, such as …
15 Jun 2021
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in th…
18 Mar 2015
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Cats, Fashion, and Windows
Madoka Hattori is the director of ilove.cat, an online magazine themed on cats and creators, and a f…
25 Nov 2014
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
…ows of different sizes bored into the walls, or a curtain wall with concrete louvers stretched over …
08 Mar 2018
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
The following interview was held with architect Hiroshi Nakamura, who has been gaining recognition f…
19 Aug 2013
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Window and Sharing (First Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for the…
24 May 2013