Reading a building by its windows --
St. Lawrence's Cathedral --
Osterlars Church --
St Vitus's Cathedral --
Lübeck Town Hall --
Palazzo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti --
Villa Almerico Capra, 'La Rotonda', Andrea Palladio --
Royal Crescent, John Wood the Younger --
Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen cathedral, C. F. Hansen --
Alte Pinakothek, Leo von Klenze --
Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Hermer --
Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier --
Schröder House, Gerrit Rietveld --
Senedd Building, Richard Rogers Partnership --
Controlling the elements --
Chirk Castle, Master James of St George --
Wawel Royal Castle, Francesco Fiorentino, Master Benedykt and Bartolomeo Berrecci --
Sheldonian Theatre, Christopher Wren --
Katsura Imperial Villa --
New Place (formerly Hurtmore), C. F. A. Voysey --
Willow Tea Rooms Buildings (now Mackintosh at the Willow), Charles Rennie Mackintosh with Margaret Macdonald --
Chiswick House, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, with William Kent --
Unité d'Habitation, Le Corbusier --
National Assembly Building, Louis Kahn --
Milwaukee Art Museum, Santiago Calatrava --
Al-Suhaymi House --
Tower houses --
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Ateliers Jean Nouvel (architect) and Waagner-Biro (engineer) --
Ecobulevar, Ecosistema Urbano --
HygroSkin Meteorosensitive Pavilion, Achim Menges in collaboration with Oliver David Krieg and Steffen Reichert --
Light defining space --
Laon Cathedral --
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Francesco Borromini --
Sir John Soane's Museum, Sir John Soane --
Versailles, Jules Hardouin-Mansart --
Royal Palace (formerly Town Hall), Jacob van Campen --
Law Courts Annex, Gunnar Asplund --
Villa Mairea, Alvar Aalto --
Grand Central Station, Reed and Stem, Warren and Wetmore --
Trans World Airlines (TWA) Terminal, Eero Saarinen --
Casa da Música, OMA --
Jewish Museum Berlin, Studio Libeskind --
Divine light --
Saint-Denis Basilica Cathedral --
Notre-Dame Cathedral --
Sainte-Chapelle --
Chartres Cathedral --
Oculus from Siena Cathedral, Duccio di Buoninsegna --
Monastery of Santa Maria de Santes Creus --
York Minster, John Thornton --
Hagia Sophia, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus --
Süleymaniye Mosque, Sinan --
St Stephen Walbrook, Christopher Wren --
Bagsvaerd Church, Jorn Utzon --
St Mary's Cathedral, Kenzo Tange --
Notre-Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier --
Cologne Cathedral, Gerhard Richter --
The Jerusalem Windows, Marc Chagall and Charles Marq --
Walls of glass --
Gloucester Cathedral --
Hardwick Hall, Robert Smythson --
Palm House, Decimus Burton (architect) and Richard Turner (engineer) --
Sullivan Center (formerly Carson Pirie Scott Store), Louis Sullivan --
Bauhaus, Walter Gropius --
De La Warr Pavilion, Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff --
Finsbury Health Centre, Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton --
Van Nellefabriek, Johannes Brinkman and Leendert Cornelis van der Vlugt --
Edith Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
The Glass House, Philip Johnson --
Seagram Building, LudwingMies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson --
Lever House, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill --
32 London Bridge Street, 'The Shard', Renzo Piano Building Workshop --
Opus, Zaha Hadid Architects --
Icefjord Centre, Dorte Mandrup --
Sky light --
Pantheon, Apollodorus of Damascus --
St Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta --
Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Guarino Guarini --
Queen's House, Inigo Jones --
Horta Museum (Victor Horta's house and studio) --
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright --
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry and Associates --
Paddington Station Isambard Kingdom Brunel with Matthew Digby Wyatt and Owen Jones --
Galerie Vivienne, F.-J. Delannoy --
Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II, Giuseppe Mengoni --
GUM, Alexander Pomerantsev and Vladimir Shukhov --
Khan Shatyr, Foster + Partners --
The Biomes at the Eden Project, Grimshaw Architects --
Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright --

"The window is one of the most essential components of architecture, yet it rarely receives the detailed examination that it deserves. This new study explores the development of the window, showing how it transformed human experience by increasing access to light and air, and simultaneously changed our perception of architectural space. Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in architecture through thematic chapters that allow for spectacular visual comparisons, juxtaposing images from different cultures and historical periods. He provides engaging commentaries on over 80 exceptional buildings of all types, both ancient and modern, ranging from the Pantheon in Rome, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto to Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in New York, Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi and Dorte Mandrup's Icefjord Centre in Greenland. Featuring more than 100 superb photographs, this is an intriguing and accessible survey of a formerly neglected subject in architectural history" -- Provided by publisher