horizontal window
Synonym :
ribbon window
In 1926 and 1927, Le Corbusier developed a set of architectural principles for modern architecture. He advocated five points of modern architecture: pilotis, the roof garden, free plan, and free façade, and the horizontal window. By making the frame structure independent of the exterior walls, it became possible to run windows horizontally along the façade for unobstructed views to the outside and evenly distributed natural light inside the building. The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window. The Perret- Le Corbusier Controversy (1984) by Bruno Reichlin is the authoritative publication on horizontal windows.
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study bui…
12 Sep 2023
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 1982 was designed by Kiyoshi Seik…
12 Oct 2023
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take …
06 Jul 2023
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron, the Basel-based architectural duo, founded their firm in 1978 after studying…
24 May 2023
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht…
27 Mar 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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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
24 Aug 2022
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Sapporo Agricultural College Farm No. 2/Window for Corn Storage
A grain store built in 1876 on the campus of Hokkaido University in Sapporo City, Hokkaido. Under th…
10 Jun 2022
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
…tals in from the mountains in springtime. ,,,This horizontal window cuts beautifully through the ced…
31 Mar 2022
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2…
30 Mar 2022
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to th…
01 Apr 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
24 Mar 2022
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made by piecing together leftover p…
22 Oct 2021
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade, but he became a leading modernist architect himse…
04 Aug 2021
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
…n the window, something you could never do with a horizontal window. The first question is always “W…
15 Feb 2021
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Dreh-Kipp Windows
,Windows with two opening and closing functions, one of which involves rotating inwards horizontally…
13 Nov 2020
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
Mario Botta, a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland, still lives and works in…
17 Nov 2020
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Horizontal Outward Projecting Window
,In this sort of window, the upper frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves up or down along a…
27 Oct 2020
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Vertical Outward Projecting Window
,In this sort of window, either the left or right frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves to …
30 Jul 2020
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A Combining City: Cairo
,I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent.…
15 Jul 2020
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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Three panelists discuss how photography, architecture, and windows are interrelated. They are Iwan B…
09 Apr 2020
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes…
03 Feb 2020
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Casement Window
,Casement windows open by rotating horizontally to the left and right from the center, taking either…
18 Dec 2019
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Double Sliding Window
,A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels horizontally over two or more …
15 May 2019
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translato…
05 Mar 2019
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, laid the foundations for modern design with its inn…
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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Library of Aveiro University
A window in the library of Aveiro University, designed by Alvaro Siza. One can look through the larg…
06 Mar 2017
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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, the exhibition “Liquid Light” present…
12 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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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)
,Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India, I passed the treeline to find an outstre…
25 Jul 2018
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translato…
18 Jul 2018
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
,movie “THE CORALLUM” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refe…
10 Jul 2018
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia …
07 Jun 2018
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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive…
17 May 2018
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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use …
11 Oct 2016
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
10 Apr 2018
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Old Penang Guest House
The windows of a hotel in Georgetown on the island of Penang, Malaysia. This type of medium-rise res…
04 Jul 2016
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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 hi…
28 Nov 2014
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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 1
,I boarded a bus in Chengdu, the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan, and headed toward …
01 Nov 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
…th impressive designs. In “Villa Schreiner,” long horizontal windows along the ceiling form shafts o…
20 Sep 2017
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Window Bookcase (2)
This is the second entry on the Window Bookcase Project. We at the Window Research Institute asked o…
01 Apr 2015
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House at Komazawa Park
…ike that at the same time. ,,Imamura: When seeing horizontal windows, Japanese people will feel like…
27 May 2016
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
08 Mar 2018
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Experimenting with Windows
… measurements from them. That house has a band of horizontal windows made to extend across all of th…
14 Jan 2014