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Duncan Patterson

Duncan makes things. He is a designer, an artist, a writer, and principal at Duncan Patterson Architecture (https://www.dparchitecture.ca).

Duncan’s artistic practice is focused on site-specific work slanted towards interactivity and irony.

Duncan was the architect behind the restoration of the Al Purdy A-Frame, as featured in Brian Johnson’s film Al Purdy Was Here (2015). He has taught design at the University of Waterloo and his essays on art and architecture have been published in journals, conference proceedings, and books internationally.

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In the following essay the window, located in the mundane middle-ground of architecture and thus ... more In the following essay the window, located in the mundane middle-ground of architecture and thus often ignored, is examined in detail through the examples of a series of cultural artifacts. This is part of a larger general project to investigate, in a serious, critical manner, the overlooked stuff of architecture. Following the example of Bachelard"s seminal 1958 work The Poetics of Space, the essay draws upon a series of examples drawn from the history of Western art and architecture, from Ancient Greece to the present day, in order to make its arguments about the role the window plays in the world, specifically the way in which it mediates between interior and exterior. It then turns from these claims to make forward-looking remarks about the future of the window.