Windowscrapers probes the three fundamental functions of a pane of glass: transparency, refractivity, and reflectivity. In turn, it indulges prying eyes, projective portals, and mirrored surfaces to explore voyeuristic people-watching, alternate realties, and strategic exposure. Its stories inhabit moments where public spectacle intermingles with the humdrum of private routine. By peering through physical apertures and symbolic frames, Windowscrapers seeks to explore a continuum of human encounters, from the sinister to the serendipitous. Akin to the issues of SOILED before it, Windowscrapers believes that the printed page can transcend the bookshelf—that print media can be a tool to engage with the physical environment, according to architectural and fenestrated coordinates. Welcome to the peep show!

IN THIS ISSUE:
Adrianne Jørgensen choreographs a Hitchcock-inspired peep show.
Mari Altshuler recounts the serendipitous encounters of un-drawn denizens.
Henry Stephens and Hannes Frykholm curate a public screening of domestic happenings.
Cristina Garriga alchemizes bedroom fabric into urban fabric.
Jimmy Stamp charts a historiography of architectural glass to reveal its latent comedic potential.
Irene Chin plants her finger and nose prints upon previously un-soiled retail windows.
Olivia Valentine and Timur Hammond interrogate the ways by which we bring the world into view.
Julia Sedlock champions the power of small spaces to reinvest architectural agency within the public realm.
Cyril Marsollier and Wallo Villacorta awaken a Brutalist icon from its institutionally imposed slumber.
AVPD challenges our perception of literal and phenomenal reflectivity by fabricating strange fenestrations.