WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research on “Window and Stre…

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…

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…

Ch.2 Symbolic Realism

The pioneers (2) Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reas…

Ch.1 The Battle for Realism

The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre “I made a dissolution of silver nitrate much diluted by water in the same proportions as those in…

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…

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3

Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Historian Professor at Istituto Universitario d…

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2

The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel freespace indicates freeing space and actions …

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…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …

Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 3)

I walked back to the home in the small village in order to pick up the pants that had been sewn for me overnight. It seemed that there the m…

In New York: Windows and Looks

Since traveling to New York in the 1970s artist Masao Gozu has spent over 40 years unveiling work that takes the window as its theme. His Bo…

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…

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…

Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)

Many valley-side settlements located 2-3000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in th…

MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”

The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma who h…

Tove Jansson’s Window

Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and text. Part 1 of this series delivers five p…

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open

Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th …

High-rise condos and windows—from functionality to scenery—

The Attractiveness of A View Partial Ocean View Ocean View Ocean Front. If upon hearing these words you know what they are referring to it i…

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 …

Windows and the Invisible Light

It seems as if an ever-increasing window society took hold in Japan sometime after the Meiji period. The expansion of glass windows to gener…

YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window

Supported the Japan Pavilion, The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016