WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Terunobu Fujimori│008: The Ribbon Window of the Karuizawa Summer House—The Modernists’ Dream, Realized in Japan

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…

WindowScape3: Window Workology

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on "Window W…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

House for an Art Lover

The dining room windows of the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Curved glass doors are lined along t…

Library of Aveiro University

A window in the library of Aveiro University designed by Alvaro Siza. One can look through the large horizontal fixed window in the reading …

009 Brussels / Amsterdam

We present the movies of windows all around the world.

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…

Movie “The Birth Canal”

movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…

Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)

It was cold in the morning so high above sea level. But when I walked out to the third-floor terrace at my inn I found it surprisingly warm.…

Part 3 Shokatei at Katsura Imperial Villa

Members of the Imperial Family were the first to enjoy the luxury of tea a valuable item at that time before the art of the tea ceremony was…

Spaces In Between

Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…

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…

Part 2: Jo-an

It seems reasonable to assume that chanoyu or the Japanese “Way of Tea” established by Sen no Rikyu was spread and led by sengok…

Nando’s

The window of a restaurant in London. An alcove has been created in the thick wall that forms a part of the structure of the railway above. …

Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)

Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown rocky moun…

Bevis Bawa’s Garden 1

The window in the loggia part of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa in which an iron grate has been installed. There is no glas…

Garlic Window in Vessalico village

Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…

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…

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…

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…

How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the …

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…

Mill Owner’s Association Building

Windows making up the wall of the eastern meeting room in the Mill Owner’s Association Building designed by Le Corbusier in Ahmedabad. The s…

Takashi Homma + Alec Soth Thinking about Windows through Photography

Alec Soth who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world and Takashi Homma who has speculated on the relationships bet…

Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”　

Kikugetsutei is a teahouse located in the early modern-age daimyo (feudal lord) garden “Ritsurin Garden” in Takamatsu city Kagaw…

Window into Another Culture

Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…

Corleone

The window of a restaurant in Prague where two small tables are arranged within the thickness of the wall. The alcove in which the window is…

Window Bookcase (1)

This project started when we commissioned o+h the young wife-and-husband team of architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda to design a bookcas…

Thinking about Windows through Photography

Contemporary photographer Takashi Homma held a conversation on the theme of “Thinking about Windows through Photography” with his long-time …

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

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

Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga

A window in the guesthouse of Lunuganga designed by Geoffrey Bawa. This bay window raised on concrete pilotis combines a series of small fix…

Shizuka Yokomizo + Takashi Homma The Origin of the Idea

One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series in which she has used photography to capture the distance between h…

The Criminology of Windows

According to sociologist Georg Simmel windows have two fundamental meanings. Firstly they create a unilateral connection between the inside …

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…

Tugendhat House

The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in the space created by two layers of glass w…

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…

Talk: Norihito Nakatani × Taro Igarashi at ISAIA

In September 2016 the Window Research Institute exhibited a booth at the International Symposium on Architectural Interchange in Asia (ISAIA…

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

Supported a Symposium “THE SAGA OF CONTINUOUS ARCHITECTURE”

Giving Color to Windows

Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and…