
Windows: an illuminating history
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The History of Architecture, the History of Windows
The broken windows thesis is that if you ignore a single broken window on a street, that that starts a rot in the community. So then there are more acts of vandalism and people start to feel unsafe. La corbusier called the history of architecture the history of windows. And so he really went for windows and their light giving properties. But sometimes i think those modernists spectacles, cause they really are spectacles. If we go forward in time to the high rise buildings of the late fifties onwards, they are a bit fur coat and lo nickers. That really shows up in the later twentieth century when many of them suffered from problems of damp problems of infestation and massive
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