French window
A double-opening window with hinged sashes that swing outward, typically installed in walls leading to a balcony, garden, or patio. Often featuring glass panes within a lattice, this type of window provides easy ventilation and creates a seamless connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces. It is commonly used as both windows and doors, and offers aesthetic appeal and functionality.
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Shoei Yoh: Architecture of Light, the Real, and Monism
Architectural historian Yoshitake Doi, who began teaching in Kyushu in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand as Fukuoka-based Shoei Yoh completed numerous works one after another, explores the essence of …
20 Dec 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│008: The Ribbon Window of the Karuizawa Summer House—The Modernists’ Dream, Realized in Japan
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
20 Mar 2025
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The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4
After resuming his creative activities with his new firm, Jean Prouvé Constructions, Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille in a project he had been working on concurrently with the V…
18 Jul 2024
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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
…ish title Fresh Widow for this piece, a miniature French window replica created by a carpenter at Duchamp’s request. Duchamp then covered the glass in this window with black leather, creating a play o…
25 Mar 2024
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy, Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet, he would begin developing new window designs again after reuniting with…
28 Mar 2024
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
…uchamp, Fresh Widow, a clever play on the phrase “French window”, is a common double window, is also quite tasteful. Shigeko Kubota’s Meta-Marcel: Window (Three tapes), which transformed television st…
02 Mar 2023
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
…ime. For the fourth installment, he discusses the French windows (French doors) of the Glover House. French windows are double-swing windows that extend down to the floor . These windows were install…
20 Feb 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
…widespread use of the vertical window – a kind of French window, really. There is also a technical consideration: when casements are larger, they’re harder to stabilize when they’re cantilevered. Rega…
15 Dec 2022
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
This fellowship program, launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), is open to accomplished professionals who hold a doctoral degree or have substantial work experience and a co…
10 Aug 2022
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a living environment comfortable. Yet, there is also a type of window whose main purpose is to expose th…
31 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 parts from past projects. In the second article of this series, Shin Yokoo examines how Prouvé incorp…
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 himself through collaborating with progressive architects such as Le Corbusier. He is particularly known …
04 Aug 2021
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Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery as you look through the window. The moving views you see from a train window. Windows give vague boundaries to our everyday lives,…
27 Apr 2021
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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
Natsume Soseki composed Inside Glass Doors at the end of his life. From inside his room, the “I” of these essays watches the days go by, meditating over visions of the past. Toshiyuki Horie, writer an…
16 Mar 2021
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Takashi Homma Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows has been reprinted and is now back in stock
Takashi Homma’s Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows has been reprinted from the first edition and is now back in stock. Find your nearest stockist here. ,Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows By Tak…
27 Jan 2021
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
…nd of reference to the traditional farmhouse, the French windows of the ground floor do not. Likewise, the shutters which fold into the reveals are more often found in townhouses. ,MG: The Housing Dev…
17 Jun 2020
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The Architecture of the Window
…became a crucial element for us. We decided to do French windows in order to get as much light into the apartments as possible, and also to have this beautiful feeling that you can lean out of the win…
07 May 2020
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
…kipp’ windows originating in Germany tilt, while ‘French windows’ open from the middle and Japanese windows may slide horizontally. Commenting on the exhibition, the Director of the Window Research In…
03 Feb 2020
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Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander
…ural object, although for his blacked-out pair of French windows, an additional jolt comes from the punning title of Fresh Widow (1920). Indeed it was said that Duchamp hoped this work might showcase …
03 Feb 2020
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Casement Window
…sed in France since the 16th century are known as French windows. , Index of Window Sounds and Movements For this project, we sought to extract and observe the sounds and movements associated with th…
18 Dec 2019
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Ch.2 Symbolic Realism
The pioneers (2) Talbot ,View of the Boulevards at Paris, 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reason for his trip was to teach a series of aspiring calotypi…
11 Jul 2019
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Ch.1 The Battle for Realism
The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre ,“I made a dissolution of silver nitrate, much diluted by water, in the same proportions as those indicated in the report above on Photographie, to which I a…
28 Mar 2019
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Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
At the beginning of November, I drove a car north from Parma and aimed for Zibello village. As I passed through the central Old City, I saw fields and houses scattered around. As I advanced the car fu…
28 Jan 2019
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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 architecture, and published about the topic under the title “Thr…
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 the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans in Louisiana, while Germans in Pennsylvania settled area…
28 Feb 2017
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Vino Santo in Trentino
…oom, and the east side is lined with large double French windows. ,I went back in history a bit, examining literature on the drying/fermentation rooms of Trentino’s noble rot wine production. As can b…
23 Oct 2018
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th, 2018), the Window Research Institute caught up with architect Momoyo Kaijim…
07 Jun 2018
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London, and is home to the world’s largest collection of living plants. Even though I can still recall the many occasions up…
29 Jun 2016
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fear and pleasure, and as theater
The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Museum is located approximately at the center of Paris. From there, the arrondissemens are numbered in a…
21 Dec 2015
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la fenêtre à la française
…ow is so called “la fenêtre à la française“ -“the French window” with a double sided door. This window is not a sideways sliding window like the Japanese traditional window, but a casement window that…
17 Sep 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 freelance editor for honeyee.com and .fatale, two prominent online fashion magazines that define Toky…
25 Nov 2014
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Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In this final…
18 Dec 2018
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
…nothing that there are windows such as so-called “French windows” that represent a return to the prototypical window in the sense that they double as entryways. Furthermore, today we can see that the …
28 Mar 2018
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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 concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume 3, …
30 Aug 2018