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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
…they bear some resemblance to European fireplaces tatami because they share their origins with carpets and fusuma because they are not quite…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
…eighboring building where its European priest lives is built of breeze blocks as is commonly seen in the city tempering the beams of the pow…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
…m around the world those from Europe for example remain in plain sight…
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
…n the manner of a traditional European window. In other words he belie…
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A Tea House for Schönbrunn has been exhibited at the Japanese Garden in Schönbrunn
…nteractions between Japan and Europe using the example of the Japanese teahouse during the project “Learning from the Japanese Teahous…
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
…pared to those of traditional European masonry and brick architecture and the Corbusian free façades constructed with industrial materials s…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
…-running bird count in all of Europe. It forms part of a small flat peninsula inside a lagoon that features a very dynamic landscape with qu…
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…y around the world such as in Europe and the Middle East and it seems to have achieved a high enough level of status that even the British r…
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
…xception however as a type of European-style wall-based window did app…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
…as was done in places such as Europe. Without walls there could be no windows. For thousands of years the people of the Japanese archipelago…
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
…y standards. Traditionally in Europe we have different proportions. In Switzerland we make widespread use of the vertical window – a kind of…
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
I gaze through the window. The scenery outside shines brightly while in a state of movement and I am drawn with fascination to all that unfo…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
…eaply mass produced. Outside Europe in places where there were neither ancient Romans nor an Industrial Revolution premodern windows remain…
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
…gun port windows were used in European strongholds and Japanese castle…
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Terunobu Fujimori| 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
…newfangled art and culture of Europe. Amidst this moment of dramatic political economic cultural and religious change architecture saw the e…
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
…g of a special case. In other European countries as the costs of healthcare have escalated city hospitals have been replaced with large-scal…
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Terunobu Fujimori|001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
…ji government which looked to Europe as its role model. Then with the second step it worked its way into the living spaces of ordinary peopl…
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at Japan House London
After being exhibited at Japan House São Paulo the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan arrives at Japan House London …
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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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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made …
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…
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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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Today/Yesterday #2
This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
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Takashi Homma on photographing the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture
…rbusier’s architecture across Europe and Asia while advancing his own investigations of the photographic medium. Homma’s interpretations inc…
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home …
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An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory
…for ten thousand years before European settlers arrived. I had to keep an eye on the bigger picture. I wanted the viewer to be aware that al…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
… a community this is what our European culture teaches us. CAB: Another characteristic that we observe in your houses is the use of geometry…
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
…his mother on Lake Geneva. In Europe in the early years of reconstruction after the Second World War there was intense discussion around how…
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The Architecture of the Window
In addition to his design practice the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a unique philosophical approach to the fiel…
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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
… trip around the world across Europe Asia Africa and South America with so many images. Iwan’s photos capture diverse objects ranging …
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Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work
Chiharu Shiota is an ever-active Berlin-based artist. In works such as her large-scale installations that tie spaces together with massive a…
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicate…
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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
Among fruit vinegars made from grapes a balsamic vinegar is an essential seasoning for Italian cuisine. In the city of Modena in northern It…
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Boa Nova Restaurant
The windows of a lounge designed by Alvaro Siza in Porto facing a rocky outcropping that looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean covered on all si…
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017 Assisi / Rome / Tivoli / Helensburgh
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
…hagen. Denmark is in northern Europe so he doesnʼt enjoy the best weather and we are looking here at the domestic environment which is very …
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016 Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
The Bormida Valley is located in the southern part of Piedmont a region in northwestern Italy located about two hours by car from Genova. Be…
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Goddards
The windows in the saloon of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. A great arch encloses an alcove around the fi…
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Goddards
The windows in the dining room of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. Bay windows are repeated across the faça…
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015 Assisi / Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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014 London / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Halaszbastya
The window of a café in Budapest Hungary. The Neo-Romanesque window is comprised of a double layer of arches around which tables and chairs …
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013 London / Assisi
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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012 London / London / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
… he was invited to exhibit in Europe more frequently. But his projects before then were primarily based in New York. I get the feeling that …
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Hill House
The living room bay window of the Hill House designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A sofa and small bookshelf are built in in fr…
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
…rced concrete construction in Europe even now. The interesting thing about the Bauhaus Building however is that the brick which can be freel…