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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Windows and daylight influence our behavior. This is unpacked in VILLUM Window Collection’s new exhibition curated by Japanese architect Yos…
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …
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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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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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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century is the large window. That is windows mu…
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our l…
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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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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…
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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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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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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus o…
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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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[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
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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Online seminar“Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet”
…echnology) “Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate Montréal Canada” Jessica Vaughn(Temple University) “Working Skill Sets” CCA-WRI …
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No.0: Six Topics for Makoto Ueda’s Interpretation of the Window Space
…tor in Chief of Toshi Jutaku (Urban Housing) and GA HOUSES. Here Mr. Ueda has offered six examples that are important when considering “Vagu…
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a living environment comfortable. Yet there …
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Fifty stories around Window and Architecture
This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the results of past “Windowology” research by architects researchers and…
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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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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
…ogy Title Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate Montreal Canada Name Jessica Vaughn Affiliation Temple University Tit…
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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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Takashi Homma on photographing the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture
Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier will be presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Montreal. On display is a s…
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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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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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Movie “A City of Columns”
…the above was Osaka Municipal Urban Housing History Publication Committee ed. Machi ni sumō—Osaka-Shi Jutakushi [Let’s live in town—History …
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The Architecture of the Window
…d professor of the History of Urban Design at ETH Zurich. Lampugnani has also applied his knowledge and expertise to the fields of curation …
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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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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
…for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETHZ Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Delft and author of several book…
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
Based in London 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including t…
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
…nstitute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) a Manhattan-based think tank founded by Peter Eisenman who was one of the New York Five. …
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
The Bauhaus founded in 1919 in Weimar Germany laid the foundations for modern design with its innovative curriculum that embraced the abstra…
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…
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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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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)
Arriving in Shanghai I was surprised at how noisy it was. This is not a critique: Shanghai is the type of place that if you don’t assert you…
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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …
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Water Tanks in New York
Photographer Takashi Homma splices compelling shots of windows between his own photos and text. Second article of his “Windows and Photograp…
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
…Okinawa are made of concrete. Urbanization of Okinawa was brought about by popularization of concrete and was actually largely attributed to…
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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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Architectural Intention behind Technology
…of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Osaka University of Art before receiving her Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union. She i…
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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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The scene of brilliant street
It’s pleasant to take a walk on the city of Paris. The roads which were built in a different reason and in a different era are crossin…