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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame Fukuoka Prefecture for around 300 years. The current buildi…
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Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
At the beginning of November I drove a car north from Parma and aimed for Zibello village. As I passed through the central Old City I saw fi…
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orle…
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Vino Santo in Trentino
Drive a car east from Milan go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy Lake Garda. Continue running north along the …
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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…
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America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses” we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the orig…
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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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Part 5: To China International Window City!
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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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…
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
Windowology: Study on Hashirama-Sochi; Equipment In Between ─Transition of Kikugetsutei─ movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei” Kiku…
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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…
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Window Embracing the Hometown
Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…
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Part 2: Apertures for View
Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources as ventilation and as portals through which people pass. In each of the…
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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 …
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese
…indow frame”] and “mado-gi” [窓木 lit. “window-tree”; a tree that has a …
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…