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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
…inking about in other words a Japanese window of black glass with a night scene exposure printed onto it and a French window covered in blac…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
…ies written by researchers in Japan and Canada delves into Yoh’s archival materials to contemplate the light that the architect aimed to cap…
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
…ō [Architectural Institute of Japan (Tokai Chapter): Summaries of Technical Lectures F-2: Architectural History/Design] (Architectural Insti…
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
…am of Takamasa Yoshizaka from Japan and Ching-Fong Lin from Taiwan won the 1952 competition to plan the school’s campus. While it̵…
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the seventh installment he focuses on the shōji of the Rinshunkaku. Originally built …
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
…or with its gable roof of red Japanese clay tiles it is a medium-sized yōfū house with a footprint of 30-tsubo [94 square meters] two storie…
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…ve been shaped by. However in Japan I think there was a perception that the form is more important for architecture while the systems are so…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
…rchitects are known at all in Japan. Today I’d like to introduce works by a likely even less-known architect in this “first gene…
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
The architectural movement of Metabolism arose in the 1960s when Japan’s cities began to reemerge from the devastation of World War II. It w…
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Katsura Catholic Church
…akashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of the main building is composed simply of a thin rhomboid hyperbolic paraboloid shell ro…
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Tilt windows
Tilt windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the bottom of the frame and are opened by being tilted inwards. As they do not open wid…
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Awning windows
Awning windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the top of the frame and are opened by being pushed outwards. The glass surface acts …
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Folding windows
Folding windows consist of two or more hinge-connected panels that form a single door which can be folded away along the length of the openi…
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Stacked awning windows
Stacked awning windows are composed of a vertical arrangement of sashes that swing up and outwards all at once with the use of a handle. The…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the sixth insta…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
…lish or French (250 words) or Japanese (400 letters) – a brief project schedule (300 words) for a one- to three-month period of research des…
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
… windows [normally written in Japanese as 窓 and pronounced mado] Seike…
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
…d including in Greater China (Japan’s lattice windows may be connected to them as well). While many wood-carved latticed doors can be …
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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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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…ontemporary Taiwan. As far as Japan goes there are amateurs there who enjoy it as a pure sport with no prize money involved. In any case the…
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Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window
…ilding (originally the Nagoya Japan Conscription Hall it was built in 1939 by Yokogawa Construction and modeled after modern American offic…
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Transition of Kikugetsutei, Equipment In Between
…of hashirama sochi—windows of Japanese architecture—with texts figures and film. The first subject examined is the Kikugetsutei a work of da…
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WindowScape3: Window Workology
…ing windows” throughout Japan in traditional handicraft settings from pottery to salt to food processing. WindowScape3: Window Workol…
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Conversations on Windows and Architecture
The Japan Pavilion produced for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the 2016 Venice Biennale was awarded a special mention. Ti…
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Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows
…cture modern architecture and Japanese architecture. The discussion also considers a broad range of subjects beyond the realm of architectur…
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WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy
…he book has been published in Japanese and Chinese. WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Lab. Tokyo Institut…
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WindowScape: Window Behaviorology
…he book has been published in Japanese Chinese (2011) English (2012) and Korean (2015). WindowScape: Window Behaviorology Yoshiharu Tsukam…
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. The focus of the fi…
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
…be looked upon as a beacon of Japanese north-country architecture to this day. Now I would like to provide an overview of the housing situat…
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Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations
… widely known at least not in Japan.2 And so in this column I would like to introduce his architectural works together with their various ki…
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the fourth installment he discusses the French windows (French doors) of the Glover …
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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
… Publishing 2020 pp.10-11 (in Japanese with English summary). This poi…
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Screen Time
…” installation for Visions of Japan (1991) grafted scenes of the Kabukicho district onto screens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London…
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Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture
…y Published by Film Art Inc. (Japanese Edition) 2022 Softcover 14.8 x 21 cm 320 Pages ISBN 9784845920150 ¥3200…
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
…s” during the period of Japanese rule. It may be that qilous were already there in Taiwan and were simply brought to light by the law …
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
…ould later gain popularity in Japan like Robert Mapplethorpe those of the so-called New Color Photography movement such as William Eggleston…
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
…or “mado” [“window” in common Japanese] in Teruo Hirayama’s book Amami hōgen kisogoi no kenkyū [A study on the basic vocabulary of the Amami…
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Please refer to the event archive from below link: After being exhibited at the three Japan Houses in Los Angeles São Paulo and London we ar…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
…da Izumi-cho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo Japan 101-0024 info@wri.or.jp…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. In article number three he discusses the vertical sliding windows (agesagemado) of the Pu…
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
…ne and temple construction in Japan also used such ebikouryou beams as…
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at Japan House Los Angeles
… New Architectural Views from Japan at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles since October 24 2020. JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles launched a virtual/online expe…
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Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places
… are used mainly for building Japanese tea houses and Sukiya-style architecture in the northwest of Kyoto City Kita Ward. As you may know Na…