If through the walls of our house we withdraw from the world, the openness connects us to it and allows us to understand it through the framework of the openings that we open in our walls. The first incarnation of politics, architecture mediates between man and the world. An exhibition produced by and presented at CCHa [Centre des Cultures de l’Habiter]. Until April 9, 2022.

If we ask ourselves the questions of living together and the art of inhabiting the world, the window and the door must be considered as what gives meaning to architecture and to our very humanity.

Because the doors and the windows are in the house as the mouth and the eyes are in a man’s face, the means of the exchanges which allow us to live. While beyond the use and the construction, the openings manifest to the outside the relationship that we establish with the rest of the world. Widely open or reduced to a murderous, they are welcoming or defensive, ostentatious or secret, protective or domineering, ordered in number, hierarchical or anarchic, and poetic when they speak to us about men and the time it took them to build. the home, and uses whose traces remain imprinted in the stones.

So we establish ourselves in this very special relationship, where, like a child playing hide and seek puts his fingers in front of his eyes to disappear and then spreads them to see if someone is approaching outside, we exclude ourselves from the world to Sur-catch it and understand it through the framework of the openings that we open in our walls.

Because the frame of the opening, by its height, its width and its depth in the wall, ensures a mediation between man and the world through this art of building, by which we inhabit the world. And if ” man is the measure of all has chosen », It is through architecture that he imposes his measure on it, as if the world were wisely assuming the dimensions that we give it.

Thus endless variations and modenatures of archaic and classical architectures, traditional long before becoming academic. But if, from the external point of view of composition and modenature, any architecture can be called upon, the rarer is the primary point of view which concerns us here; that of the relationship to the world and to others, to nature or to the city, to landscapes of free nature like mineral metropolises, whose tide extends as far as the eye can see.

Doors and windows – Openings between oneself and the world
Until April 9, 2022
CCHa [Centre des Cultures de l’Habiter] / MAKE-CITY
5 rue St Pantaléon
31000 Toulouse
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