The "eyes" of a building, windows separate viewer from view, inside from outside, public from private. Windows of the World tours the infinite richness of this basic architectural element, from the simple, square porthole of a stone farmhouse in Brittany to the fine ironwork details of the mashrabiya that screen windows in Morocco to the windows of New York's Greenwich Village, crisscrossed by a complex, ornate maze of fire escapes.
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The "eyes" of a building, windows separate viewer from view, inside from outside, public from private. Windows of the World tours the infinite richness of this basic architectural element, from the simple, square porthole of a stone farmhouse in Brittany to the fine ironwork details of the mashrabiya that screen windows in Morocco to the windows of New York's Greenwich Village, crisscrossed by a complex, ornate maze of fire escapes.
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Very Good. Large 8vo. Unpaginated (approx 200pp), num col photographs. Or pictorial card. Near new. Hundreds of images of windows from around the world showing the richness of this basic architectural element.
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As New. First edition. Octavo. 173 pp; color photos on every page. Paperback. Fine. A photographic survey of this basic architectural element, from the simple, square porthole of a stone farmhouse in Brittany to the fine ironwork details of the mashrabiya that screen windows in Morocco to the windows of New York's Greenwich Village. The authors show how the diverse proportions, designs, materials, and colors of windows reflect the geography, traditions, and culture of local habitats.
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