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Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes
Momoyo Kaijima's chair of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zurich, h…
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A window with a memory
I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and p…
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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
Why wasn’t it a window? I organized an exhibition called Medium and Dimension: Liminal and wrote a text for the exhibition catalogue entitle…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
Architect Shoei Yoh began his creative career as an interior designer in the 1970s. In 2019 he donated materials from his professional archi…
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa’s collection. A countless number of those works were created here in the Awazu…
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
The campus of Taiwan’s first private university Tunghai University stretches across the suburbs of Taichung a city in the center-west …
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva Switzerland in 2003. François Charbonnet one of its co-principals…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
When talking about the first generation of post-war Taiwanese architects there are famous individuals such as Wang Da-Hong who studied under…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
While this column has primarily introduced the windows of unnamed buildings in Taiwan there are a number of works of modern and contemporary…
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A Tea House for Schönbrunn has been exhibited at the Japanese Garden in Schönbrunn
“Learning from the Japanese Tea House” a project granted by the Window Research Institute for the fiscal year 2022 has been open…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
On the occasion of the “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan” currently being held in Copenhagen we conducted a serie…
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Double Vision
…0 in (61 x 76.2 cm) Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Becky Cohen © 2022 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York…
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
Houses stand there dotting the farmland. Small huts sit above them in the sky. It’s a bit of a strange sight but one that you’ll…
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Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window
Since Kunié Sugiura wrote about windows in New York last time let’s start this article on the topic of the American windows that were …
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Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows
This book presents findings from the Tohoku University Taro Igarashi Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Window History” (2007–2009…
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Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations
0. Introduction——Why Judd Now? Donald Judd (1928–94) an icon of American Minimalism has many admirers in the architecture world. Presumably …
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron the Basel-based architectural duo founded their firm in 1978 after studying architecture at ETH Zurich. They have sin…
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
When we face the presence of towering walls massive mountains or solid…
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums stations billboards buildings refrigerators thermostats on our wrists and in our hands. As a physical inter…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on th…
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico
At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…
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Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)
The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations …
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date they have be…
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Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)
I left the village of Yeyin and took a trip around the island. Going o…
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people” people belonging to a variety of ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While …
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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan from 1 December 2021 unt…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2022
This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
…e I started living in Taiwan. Contemporary Taiwan is for the most part…
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“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo
This exhibition showcases windows as fundamental elements of the Japanese society After being exhibited at Japan House Los Angeles the origi…
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
Peter Märkli one of Switzerland’s leading architects started his career after meeting his mentor the architect Rudolf Olgiati. In 1978 he es…
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
… into Architecture: Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture” at Archi-Depot Museum Höfer looked back on her days as a student in…
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Shizuka Yokomizo|Today/Yesterday #1
Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
After walking around Cairo for a few days I took a flight to Aswan Egypt’s southernmost city. From there I followed the Nile River nor…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
Mario Botta a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland still lives and works in the area practicing architectural design.…
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
…at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa her works are illuminated by natural light streaming in through the glass walls and …
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wa…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA); The MIMOCA Foundation; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from Oct…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA); The MIMOCA Foundation; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from Oct…
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Movie “A City of Columns”
…e city. Relics of the Past in Contemporary Osaka Following the Meiji Restoration (1868) the construction of two-story or taller nagaya was p…
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Supported an Exhibition “Rei Naito: Mirror Creation”
…21; at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa. Outline of the Exhibition Rei Naito: Mirror Creation Venue: 21st Century Museum of …
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Exhibition delays – The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MIMOCA
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) has been postponed and will be opening as follows. Dates July 11 to Se…
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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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Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work
…1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville. I realized that the 600 windows I had initially gathered to make the work wouldn&…
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Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander
Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to brea…