BOOK:
DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED
ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
NOTES
NOTE
1 - WINDOWS AS OPENINGS & PICTURES - EG: LE CORBUSIER
> NOTE
2 - THE DRAMA OF NECESSITY - EG: LE CORBUSIER >
> NOTE 3 - SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY
NOTICES >
> NOTE 4 - THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST
STOVE >
> NOTE 5 - TETTERODE HISTORY >
> NOTE 6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK:
JOLINE'S HOUSE >
> NOTE 7 - TETTERODE KINDERGARTEN >
> 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 - SILO EVENTS PUBLICITY NOTICES >
> NOTE 4
- THE SILO KROEG'S FIRST STOVE >
> NOTE 5 - TETTERODE HISTORY >
> NOTE
6 - DE LOODS WESTERDOK: JOLINE'S HOUSE >
> NOTE 7 - TETTERODE KINDERGARTEN >
> NOTE 8 - TETTERODE'S PAINTED
LIFT >
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