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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Three panelists discuss how photography architecture and windows are interrelated. They are Iwan Baan who has been photographing prominent a…
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated f…
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orle…
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Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) has…
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Window…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Windo…
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects including houses a church a station square and art museums. He has also fou…
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the …
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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Window Embracing the Hometown
Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…
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Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change
Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train on an airplane or in a café are always popular…
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Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…