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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…

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…

America (3)

Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …

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…

Movie “The Birth Canal”

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

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

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

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…

Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple

Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive ornaments at a time when rich ornamentati…

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…

Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese

…d conventions. They are “葬式を窓や石段の上から見れば近所に不幸がある” [sōshiki wo mado ya i…

Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…