Culture
Colorful Collages of Windows Around the World
A photographer illustrates how the smallest architectural details shape the character of a city.
Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but windows, the Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves discovered, have a claim on the soul of a city.
During a year abroad as a student in Trento, Italy, Gonçalves spent a good deal of time traveling around the region. “I noticed how different the windows are from city to city,” he says. Certain patterns caught his attention: clapboard shutters in Trento; lavish oriels in the Alps; narrow Juliet balconies in Venice. In photographing them, he looked for “windows that are more consistent and that communicate the feeling of a given city.”