In a previous column, arguments were presented for the importance of muntins in windows. So important are these slender, diaphanous grids, that they warrant a closer look. The sheet glass used in windows was invented in 11th Century Germany, but due to its expense,...
... The Horne Residence: A Milton Grenfell Carpenter Gothic Home : With the coming of the railroads and the rapid industrialization of the United States, with its soot choked cities and growing slums, there arose among many a nostalgia for times past. At the same...
.. . Windows, the Eyes of the House : Poets have described eyes as "windows of the soul". Architects describe windows as the "eyes of a house". In fact, "windows" descends from the Anglo Saxon, "wind-eyes". Manifesting the obvious, architecture has traditionally...
The Front Door One of the many regrettable characteristics of Modern architecture is the lack of attention to the front door. If in a modernist building you can even find the front door! Yet a phenomenon from Peru speaks to the fundamental importance of...
. Muntins … sounds a bit like something one might roast for Easter dinner. . But no. . The muntins of which I write are those vertical and horizontal thin little pieces of wood in a wooden window, or steel in a steel window, or plastic … etc., that traditionally hold...
. Architecture is My Delight . As author of the Declaration of Independence, and who as ambassador secured France’s alliance with the American colonies through which the British were defeated and America won her independence, and Third President of the United States,...
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