About

Philosophy

After working in historic worship spaces across Europe and the US in his family-owned liturgical arts studio, Daniel Winterich became interested in creating the same inspirational qualities of light within contemporary environments. The goal of his studio’s work is to create memorable places through light and light-altering materials. His practice, Studio Winterich, is a multi-discipline studio pursuing commissioned permanent and temporary art installations, design, and architectural projects.

Origins

Raised in a five-generation family business devoted to the liturgical arts, Daniel Winterich’s training in stained glass, painting, and mosaic work began in 1974. His extreme attention to craft, materials, and design details developed over these early years while working on ecclesiastical projects across the Midwest and southern states.

Upon completing his undergraduate design degree, Daniel’s interest in integrating art and architecture led him to work with three award-winning architectural firms from 1984 to 1994 and become a registered architect.

During his studies at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design, Daniel expanded his education at the German stained glass studio Oidtmann Glasmalerei in 1982, where he apprenticed in glass painting while working with Germany’s leading glass artists.

After studies under Johannes Schreiter in 1994, one of Germany’s most renowned glass artists, Mr. Winterich started his art and architecture practice through Studio Winterich, where he pursues large-scale site-specific installations, autonomous artwork, and architectural projects.

Portfolio

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Retu(r)ned Oak

1100 Broadway, Oakland, CA

Studio Winterich completed a major public art commission for Ellis Partners at their new hi-rise at the corner of Broadway and 12th Street in Oakland. Our work is along the storefront of this 18-story building designed by Gensler. Forty-four kiln-formed glass panels measure 11 feet tall by 45″ wide. Inspired by the geometry of an acorn cap (live oaks once covered Oakland), the glass walls span 91 feet along Broadway and 74 feet along 12th Street. Installation video: https://youtu.be/FLQmgQJ0bLI

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Standpoint

Sunnyvale, CA

Due to the arrangement of shapes, light, color, and voids, the perception of space in this sculpture fluctuates. A hovering illuminated blue prism sometimes appears at the sculpture’s center. Walk around the piece, and the colored prism flattens, changes color, and disappears.
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Many Bays, Many Days

San Francisco, CA

The luminous glass wall shifts in color and shape across its length. As you walk through the reception area, the composition gently reveals itself like a landscape painting on a folding Japanese screen. This installation intends to draw one through the windowless elevator lobby toward the expansive views of San Francisco Bay on the north side of the 38th floor. The optical effects across the wall shift between crisp geometric shapes from one perspective to the illusion of floating glowing cubes when viewed from just a few feet in either direction.
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Approach

Palo Alto, CA

The color and shapes of the San Francisco Bay salt ponds, as seen from the air, are a distinctive feature of the Bay Area landscape. Winding their way through the salt ponds are several major sloughs and innumerable minor branches off the sloughs. Evident in the sinuous shapes of these waterways is the source of inspiration for this sculpture, fractal geometry.
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Cascading Glass Wall

Los Gatos, CA

Inspired by Tuscany’s gardens and rural architecture, the “Cascading Glass Wall” is a prismatic focal point at the central courtyard of the Netflix Campus. Framed in bronze and stone, the garden wall glass reflects blues,...
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_Solar Matrix

Mountain View, CA

Public art award for the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus constructed of concrete, pyrex glass, dichroic glass, stainless steel, and water. 362 Pyrex glass rods, each capped with a dichroic lens, penetrate a 15″ thick concrete wall. Water cascades from the top of the wall over the glass rods, creating a meditative field of rumbling water. As the sun tracks across the sky, a color shift from yellow to aqua-blue occurs at the ends of the glass rods. The hour of this transformation changes throughout the year.

Selected for the permanent Library Collection at the Corning Museum of Glass – https://info.cmog.org/publication/new-glass-review-26

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Vernal Landscape

Fremont, CA

Inspired by the golden hills in the distance, this abstracted art glass composition suggests a late spring landscape in the East Bay Hills. Alternating pieces of antique glass and clear bevels are laminated to the...
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Structural Mondrian

San Francisco, CA

Commissioned structural glass partition of painted tempered glass and stainless steel. Each of the 11-foot high lites is painted with ...
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Heighway Fractal

Menlo Park, CA

The color and shapes of the San Francisco Bay salt ponds, as seen from the air, are a distinctive feature of the Bay Area landscape. Winding their way through the salt ponds are several major sloughs and innumerable minor branches of the sloughs. Evident in the sinuous shapes of these wateways is fractal geometry.
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Exultadagio

San Francisco, CA

“Exultadagio” includes prismatic glass fins on the south façade of the modernist, six-story addition to the historic San Francisco Conservatory of Music building. In each fin, a thin strip of dichroic glass projects colored light onto the building façade and into the conservatory classrooms—to the delight of students and faculty. The ornamental purple and yellow light beautifully contrasts with the historic structure’s traditional painted terracotta cladding. Philosophically, the Conservatory emphasizes the importance of performance and requires students to perform almost daily. In keeping with this philosophy, the glass facade of the building creates a daily performance in light and color.
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Respite

Santa Clara, CA

The centerpiece of this installation for the Mediation Room is a free-standing art glass wall. The 1/2″ thick textured glass wall is ...
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Strata

Palo Alto, CA

Throughout the new offices of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, time is metaphorically expressed on several scales. On the one hand, ...
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Receiver

Sunnyvale, CA

Tilting slightly towards the building, the sculpture shape is derived from a section of the parabolic antenna at the nearby Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunnyvale, the site of the “Blue Cube”. Ellison Onizuka was one of the astronauts on the Challenger space shuttle. The Department of Defense renamed the Air Force Station in his honor after the Challenger disaster. The sculpture’s glass pattern matches the star pattern in the sky above Sunnyvale on January 28, 1986, at 11:38 am, the time of the Challenger lift-off.

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Reflecting Whisper Wall

Mountain View, CA

An embracing ring of gentle falling water cascades over reflective glass shelves. Dappled colored light playfully reflects off the white concrete water wall and creates a soothing environment at the entrance to this medical office building.
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Glass Lattice

Oakland, CA

A combination of textured handmade glass and clear float glass were used to create this dramatic art glass mural in the lobby of a ...
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RNM Restaurant

San Francisco, CA

A vertical row of glass rods travels up this wall sculpture like a string of champagne bubbles in a tall glass flute. Trailing up the stairs and around the mezzanine, a translucent guardrail subtly obscures one’s view. Combining stainless steel with acid-etched glass creates an elegant backdrop for one of Conde Nast magazine’s top 75 new restaurants worldwide.
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Constructive Musings I & II

San Francisco, CA

Commissioned glass murals consist of fused glass, acid-etched glass, mirrored glass, flashed glass, copper foil, and stainless steel. Entirely lit from the front like a mosaic, a variety of glass surfaces impart a quality of...
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South by Southwest

Napa, CA

Based on the property’s topographic survey, this art glass window creates a sense of intimacy in the homeowner’s private ...
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Rosa Luna

Palo Alto, CA

Located within a two-story atrium of the Cardiology Center at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, the Rosa Luna fabric modules capture colored ...
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Nine on Time

Santa Clara, CA

Developed in collaboration with Carducci Associates Landscape Architects for Marvell Technology Group, nine glass and steel water walls create a soothing environment at the center of campus. Paired with a wind sculpture by artist Ned...
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LIFT

Palo Alto, CA

This public art sculpture is a functional elevator enclosure located on the Palo Alto Medical Clinic campus. On the west side of the ...
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Sixteenth

Atherton, CA

The school song musical score is the basis of this glass mural. Dichroic glass fins of varying lengths are set into a glass mosaic tile feature wall adjacent to the school’s new Music Center. Eight...
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Resignal

San Jose, CA

“Resignal” was developed to express the core work at Maxim Technologies. Maxim is a semiconductor company specializing in translating analog signals into digital signals and back to analog. Maxim’s custom-designed semiconductor chips are found in thousands of devices, including iPhones, audio/ visual equipment, environmental controls, and sound systems. Located at the center of the new corporate campus, this water wall is the focal point of the main outdoor courtyard. The sculpture radiates a deep blue light from the hand-painted glass at night. By contrast, the concentric dichroic glass rings reflect a specular golden light.
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Maritime Metronome

San Francisco, CA

Commissioned five-story curtain wall consisting of insulated glass, laminated handmade antique glass, and commercial tinted glass. Having ...
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De Stijl Glass Structure

New York, NY

Second in a series of three commissions constructed of painted glass. Located on the top floor of 230 Park Avenue North, this glass wall is ...
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco, CA

Studio Winterich developed a custom-designed point-supported glass wall system for the school’s interior atrium using stainless steel tubing, custom-milled aluminum connectors, and standard stainless steel spider fittings. The scope of work included the design, fabrication,...
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Bus Shell-ter

Stockton, CA

The glowing shell-like form was visible from a distance of one-quarter mile. The Bus Shell-ter was made of bent strips of fluorescent Plexiglas attached to a steel frame in a shiplap pattern. Photovoltaic cells on...
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Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus

Mountain View, CA

Within four campus buildings, Studio Winterich assisted with designing and implementing a four-sided structural glass wall system ...
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Signal

San Jose, CA

Following the shape of an analog wave, Signal expresses the core mission of Maxim Technologies. Maxim, a semiconductor company, specializes in translating analog signals into digital signals and back to analog. Maxim’s custom-designed semiconductor chips...
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Stand

Oakville, CA

The Oakville Ranch Vineyards is located in Napa Valley and is renowned for its premium wines. In the decades since Robert and Mary Miner bought the 350-acre property, the winery has become an exemplary practitioner...
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Campbell Hall Public Art Proposal #1

Berkeley, CA

In this installation, a lenticular wall reveals the Cosmic Microwave Background (wmap version)from one direction and the B-Mode polarization from the other direction. This wall is made ofstaggered images that, when viewed together, form a...
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Crescent

Sunnyvale, CA

The sculpture, “Crescent”, was derived from looking at the sloughs that wind through the former salt ponds at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay and the north edge of Sunnyvale. Due to its...
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Elliptical Dome

San Francisco, CA

This leaded glass skylight is at the top of a three-story elliptical stairwell. Elliptical walls below the skylight capture prismatic light from the skylight’s bevels, jewels, and German mouthblown glass. The pattern was inspired by...
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Hilsabeck Residence

Lafayette, CA

A contemporary home originally built in 1982 on Silverwood Drive in Lafayette, CA, was slowly sliding downhill due to a creeping hillside site. The homeowner’s interest in adding a wine cellar to the property provided...
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Marx Beach House

San Francisco, CA

John Marx and Nikki Beach renovated their 1907 home by attaching a modern addition to the back of the house. The contrast between the Edwardian-era bungalow appearance on the street and the 3 story addition facing the San Francisco Bay is stark. Studio Winterich collaborated with the couple on colorful glass accents for the full-size windows overlooking the Bay.

Check out the story in Mansion Global and The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-san-francisco-a-home-conceived-by-piet-mondrians-brushstroke-11563461818

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/in-san-francisco-a-home-conceived-by-piet-mondrian-s-brushstroke-128972

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Quezada Residence

Mill Valley, CA

Studio Winterich collaborated with Fred and Cecilia Quezada on numerous glass elements within this award-winning home in the hills of Mill Valley. The glass entry canopy is the primary focal point of the house and...
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Cox Residence

Walnut Creek, CA

Designed for a family of five, this 3,800-square-foot custom home was planned around an old valley oak tree in the center of the one-half-acre property. Consequently, the house’s footprint is in the shape of a...
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Haworth Residence

Walnut Creek, CA

With an observatory and a lake view, this Mid-Century Modern home lacked a main entrance and needed a facelift. Originally built in the mid-seventies by an engineer-builder, the house includes passive thermal elements that were...
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Big Mountain Road – Montana

Whitefish, MT

This new three-story vacation home on 12.5 acres is between Whitefish, Montana, and Whitefish Mountain Resort. Situated to take advantage of the lake and town view, the house includes seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, three bunkrooms,...
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Glen Court Pool House

Walnut Creek, CA

In keeping with the main house’s mid-century modern character, this studio pool house includes a bathroom-laundry room and outdoor shower. Porthole windows look toward a fruit orchard, and a large sliding glass door connects the...

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IN THE STUDIO

September 24, 2019

Case study: Finding a balance between openness and protection

At Studio Winterich, our work ranges from artistic expressions in glass to custom-designed architectural glass and beyond. One architectural glass challenge involved a client who wanted a new office and display area for an art…

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NEWS

January 31, 2022

Time Space Existence Interview in Venice

After six months, the Time Space Existence Exhibition at the European Cultural Centre and the la Biennale draw to a close in Venice. The curators of our show, Bianca Bonaldi and Vittoria Mastrolilli, did this…

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AWARDS

August 21, 2023

International CODAawards

We are in the top 100 projects for the CODAawards! The annual prize recognizes collaborative projects integrating art into architecture or the public space. This year, there were over 400 submissions from 24 countries worldwide.

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Clients

  • Sunnyvale, CA

    STUDIOS Architecture

  • London, England

    Morgan Lovell Design and Construction

  • San Mateo, CA

    The Watry Design Group

  • San Francisco, CA

    Quezada Architecture

  • Milpitas, CA

    Quezada Architecture

  • Rancho Cordova, CA

    STUDIOS Architecture

  • San Jose, CA

    STUDIOS Architecture

  • Sunnyvale, CA

    Quezada Architecture

  • San Francisco, CA

    Gensler Architects

    Religious

  • Walnut Creek, CA

    Bashland Builders

  • Marin City, CA

    SMWM Architects

  • Solon, OH

    JH Winterich, Inc.

  • Oakland, CA

    Mark Horton / Architecture with Michael Harris Architecture

  • Mill Valley, CA

    Alfred Quezada, AIA and Cecilia Quezada, AIA Architects

  • Alameda, CA

  • Napa, CA

    David Broder, Architect

  • Sacramento, CA

    Catalina Szalay, Architect

  • San Francisco, CA

    John Marx, AIA