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BOOK: DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
NOTES
NOTE
1 - WINDOWS AS OPENINGS & PICTURES - EG: LE CORBUSIER
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2 - THE DRAMA OF NECESSITY - EG: LE CORBUSIER >
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NOTE
3 - VERNACULAR PRAGMATISM - EG: BERDUN >
> NOTE 4 - SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY
NOTICES >
> NOTE 5 - THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST
STOVE >
> NOTE 6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK:
JOLINE'S HOUSE >
> NOTE 7 - RECIPROCATION OF DISPIRATE
CONTENTS - EG: RICARDO BOFILL >
> NOTE 8 - TETTERODE'S PAINTED
LIFT >
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NOTE 1
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Re: Foot-Note 1: SILO - ATTIC - p3 ]
WINDOWS AS OPENINGS AND 'PICTURES'
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EG: LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE, POISSEY-SUR-SEINE - 1929-31
'PICTURE-WINDOW' OPENING IN THE NW WIND-BREAK WALL OF THE L2 SUN TERRACE
This building presents an intentionally mediated 'art' instance of a window phenomenon common in the Grain Silo, whose industrial or improvised windows are often - at least in relation to expectations primed by our culture's mass-housing conventions - strangely placed or convey an unusually strong awareness of the events of their inception; and which thus reveal - perhaps mearly as a consequence of the degree of attention we consequently give them - what is perhaps mearly an inherent property of windows.
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LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE: NW FRONT (pic c1975 / to SE) Note the 'picture-window' opening in the wind-break wall of the L2 sun-terrace. |
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LE CORBUSIER - VILLA SAVOYE: INTERIOR-EXTERIOR - L2 TERRACE (pic 19? / to NW) Note the 'picture-window' in the wind-break wall of the L2 sun-terrace. This opening in its screen wall is an external-physical analogue of a 'Cubist'/'Surrealist' papier-collé's visual/mental paradox: a presentation of a 'real' space on the plane of its supporting surface. |
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^ NOTE 1 - WINDOWS AS
OPENINGS & PICTURES - EG: LE CORBUSIER
> NOTE 2 -
THE DRAMA OF NECESSITY - EG: LE CORBUSIER >
>
NOTE 3 - VERNACULAR PRAGMATISM - EG: BERDUN >
> NOTE 4
- SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY NOTICES >
> NOTE 5
- THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST STOVE >
> NOTE
6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK: JOLINE'S HOUSE >
> NOTE 7 -
RECIPROCATION OF DISPIRATE CONTENTS - EG: RICARDO BOFILL >
> NOTE 8 - TETTERODE'S PAINTED
LIFT >