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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows
This book is the official catalog of the exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows jointly held by Win…
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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
In this fourth book in the WindowScape book series, Yoshiharu Tsukamot…
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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
…indow Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture” – the fourth in the WindowScape book series. VILLUM Window Collection is now present…
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Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes
Momoyo Kaijima's chair of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zurich, h…
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“Light is Light and Light”
The Archaeology of the Digital exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2013 served as a catalyst for reevaluating t…
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A window with a memory
I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and p…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
…on of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) following its 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. The ambitious architect whose pio…
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
…llejuif Près De Paris L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui No.72 1957 Peter Sulzer Jean Prouvé: Complete Works: Volume 4: 1954–198…
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…iku” [Kiyoshi Awazu and Architecture] Awazu Kiyoshi to kenchiku (Kiyoshi Awazu makurihirogeru (Expose): 3) 21st Century Museum of Cont…
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
The campus of Taiwan’s first private university Tunghai University stretches across the suburbs of Taichung a city in the center-west …
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
…s Rietveld himself remarked: ‘Architecture is never about closure; it is a boundary of the here and there the above and the below the betwee…
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
…ETH Zurich and the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio and published his first book Portraits: Ar…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…ons and Contemplations around Architecture] (Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha 1976) 240–241. 6 : “Back when he worked for Antonin Raymond Yoshimura w…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
…versity’s Department of Architecture in 1945 making him my distant senior. What’s more while many members of this first generati…
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
The architectural movement of Metabolism arose in the 1960s when Japan’s cities began to reemerge from the devastation of World War II. It w…
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Katsura Catholic Church
Completed in 1965 the Katsura Catholic Church in Kyoto is known as the only George Nakashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of th…
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Tilt windows
Tilt windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the bottom of the frame and are opened by being tilted inwards. As they do not open wid…
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Awning windows
Awning windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the top of the frame and are opened by being pushed outwards. The glass surface acts …
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Folding windows
Folding windows consist of two or more hinge-connected panels that form a single door which can be folded away along the length of the openi…
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Stacked awning windows
Stacked awning windows are composed of a vertical arrangement of sashes that swing up and outwards all at once with the use of a handle. The…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
While this column has primarily introduced the windows of unnamed buildings in Taiwan there are a number of works of modern and contemporary…
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
…inary proposal for the Modern Architecture: International Exhibition held at MoMA in 1932.10 There is something peculiar about the fact tha…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
…ademy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture Design and Conservation (KADK). Sebastian Skovsted studied at the KADK and Delft University of Te…
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001 Foligno / Brussels / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our l…
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Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen’s Showcase windows of the Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building located on a corner lot along Aleksanterinkatu in central Helsinki was designed by the national romanticist …
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
Houses stand there dotting the farmland. Small huts sit above them in the sky. It’s a bit of a strange sight but one that you’ll…
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Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window
Since Kunié Sugiura wrote about windows in New York last time let’s start this article on the topic of the American windows that were …
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Transition of Kikugetsutei, Equipment In Between
This booklet contains the findings of the Waseda University Norihito Nakatani Seminarʼs Windowology research titled “Study on Hashirama-Soch…
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Conversations on Windows and Architecture
The Japan Pavilion produced for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the 2016 Venice Biennale was awarded a special mention. Ti…
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Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows
…ical history. Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows (in Japanese) Taro Igarashi Lab. (Tohoku University) and Koji Ichikawa Publish…
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Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture
…m.” Aphorisms on Windows and Architecture Taro Igarashi Lab. (Tohoku University) Published by Kensetsutsushin Shimbun Corp. NOVEMBER 2014 S…
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo design…
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Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations
… Three-Dimensional Objects to Architecture Before delving into the discussion on the architectural work of Judd the artist I would like to…
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
…such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture. She was the curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition — La…
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Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård
The apartment building in Copenhagen. Due to restrictions placed on the use of steel during World War II a steel lintel could not be used. K…
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world but when windows appear in photographs they are…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
…with the idea of locus in The Architecture of the City. In this renown…
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums stations billboards buildings refrigerators thermostats on our wrists and in our hands. As a physical inter…
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protr…
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three windows which straddle the border betwe…