WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details

…be exported to places such as Africa. These ideas included making the legs seat and backrest as independent components that are joined with …

Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile

After walking around Cairo for a few days I took a flight to Aswan Egypt’s southernmost city. From there I followed the Nile River nor…

Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)

…st mosque on the continent of Africa the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As. This mosque has its origins in the 7th century a time when Islam first beg…

A Combining City: Cairo

I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy Cairo seeme…

Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

…y Thomas Heatherwick in South Africa — the very first museum actually of contemporary art on the African continent [pict_01]. It uses these …

Ch.2 Symbolic Realism

…hotography Johannesburg South Africa; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; private collection. Two prints on salted paper later produced by …

Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures

… in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2014 he designed the exhibition in the Japan Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale. He co-founded th…

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…

Architecture in Photography and Windows

Iwan Baan is a photographer whose work has taken him around the world from Asia to Africa. Last year he participated in a panel discussion o…

Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”

…luding Tohoku Asia Europe and Africa. In the final part Professor Hiroto Kobayashi looks back and shares his thoughts on the projects implem…

Window into Another Culture

…gees from the Middle East and Africa who have no places to go. By sending the pre-cut data to a factory equipped with a cutting machine pre-…

fear and pleasure, and as theater

…un by mainly Chinese or North African people. A lot of Eastern European people are living there. For this reason I feel a different type of …

Pleasure of Opening Windows

…ocratic Republic of the Congo Africa. What kind of windows did the project team come up with and make in collaboration with the teachers and…

Concept of a Window

Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the res…