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A window can be a void, an aperture, or a glass surface. Existing at the boundary between interior and exterior, windows admit light and air and frame views. The idea of the window, combined with advances in glass as a building material, became central to architectural experimentation during the modern period. This selection from the CCA collection presents a range of modern architectural glass conditions: windows that frame beams of light, long ribbon windows, mechanical windows in glass facades, angular glass panels, transparent glass volumes, and glittering buildings (both imagined and realized) made entirely of glass.
Presented as part of Montréal City of Glass: A Tale of Innovation, an initiative of the Board of Montréal Museum Directors (BMMD). The Starting From… series explores current publications on architecture and highlights materials in the CCA collection.
Selected objects
Erich Consemüller. Bauhaus, Dessau: view of the workshop. Walter Gropius, architect. After 1926. Gelatin silver print, 17.0 x 12.2 cm. CCA Collection, PH1985:0321
J.J.P. Oud. Interior view of a living room, Kiefhoek Housing Estate, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 1925-1929. (Photo by Jan Kamman) Gelatin silver print, 15.6 x 21.6 cm. CCA Collection. PH1985:0151
Hans Scharoun. 3x3 dimensionales Glashaus. Printed 1919/1920. Iron-based cyanotype on paper, sheet: 34 x 22,4 cm irr. CCA Collection, DR1988:0020:003
Unknown photographer. Konstantin Melnikov’s house under construction showing the architect and his wife, Moscow. 1927-1929. Gelatin silver print, comp.: 23.1 x 17.1 cm, sheet: 24.0 x 18.3 cm. CCA Collection, PH1989:0012:012
Unknown photographer. Konstantin Melnikov’s studio in his house, Moscow. 1929 or later. Gelatin silver print, 14.6 x 21.4 cm. CCA Collection, PH1989:0012:016
Iwao Yamawaki. Bauhaus, Dessau: showing the main entrance of the workshop wing. Walter Gropius, architect. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 10.1 x 14.4 cm. CCA Collection, PH1986:0050
Other exhibitions in the series
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