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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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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Windows and daylight influence our behavior. This is unpacked in VILLUM Window Collection’s new exhibition curated by Japanese architect Yos…
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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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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
…vered the windows of the Mori Art Museum with a pure red film and arranged a series of black-painted structural objects into architectural f…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
Architect Shoei Yoh began his creative career as an interior designer in the 1970s. In 2019 he donated materials from his professional archi…
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
…donated them to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris prompting an exhibition of Prouvé’s work the following year. The remaining classroom …
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…eceived the Japan Advertising Artists Club Award for his 1955 poster Umi o kaese (Give Our Sea Back) thrusting him into the spotlight as a s…
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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
Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht from 1924 has achieved iconic status. I…
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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)
…ompetition for the Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain in Geneva. Located on one of the very few residual urban blocks dedicated to industrial activ…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
The Aichi University of the Arts was built to the designs of Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura in 1966. Situated in the forested hills of Nag…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
When talking about the first generation of post-war Taiwanese architects there are famous individuals such as Wang Da-Hong who studied under…
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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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A Tea House for Schönbrunn has been exhibited at the Japanese Garden in Schönbrunn
“Learning from the Japanese Tea House” a project granted by the Window Research Institute for the fiscal year 2022 has been open…
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
…n 15 and the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Rizzoli 1992) 219. 11 :“A Windowless Factory” Architecture 63 no. 5 (May 1931) 303. Also referr…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
… Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture Design and Conservation (KADK). Sebastian Skovsted studied at the KADK and Delft …
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Double Vision
…ied earlier in other mediums. Artists used the window as a portal to apply new notions of spatial order which had already begun to disrupt f…
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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
…agoya Zokei Junior College of Art & Design (the predecessor of today’s Nagoya Zokei University) but at the time when she was study…
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WindowScape3: Window Workology
… Technology Published by Film Art Inc. FEBRUARY 2017 Softcover 14.8 x 21 cm 288 Pages ISBN 9784845916115 ¥2600…
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Conversations on Windows and Architecture
…a special mention. Titled En: Art of Nexus the exhibition shown in the pavilion presented the work of Japan’s young upcoming architects. The…
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WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition
This is the exhibition catalogue for WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition—The Research Behind the Milano Salone Exhibit (Tokyo Midtown Desi…
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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…
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WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy
… Technology Published by Film Art Inc. (Japanese Edition) FEBRUARY 2014 (Japanese and Chinese Edition) Softcover A5 variant 288 Pages ISBN 9…
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Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture
…f Architects” “Vehicles” and “Art and Film.” Aphorisms on Windows and Architecture Taro Igarashi Lab. (Tohoku University) Published by Kens…
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WindowScape: Window Behaviorology
… Technology Published by Film Art Inc. (Japanese Edition) 2010 (Japanese Edition)/2011 (Chinese Edition)/2012 (English Edition)/2015 (Korean…
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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
…d Illusion in Donald Judd” in Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism Pop Art and Minimalism ed. Jed Perl …
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
…g the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis USA; the Pérez Art Museum in Miami USA and the extension of the Musée Unterlinden in…
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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
…freedom. The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were packed with artworks I had seen before in textbooks an…
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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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Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura
… U.S. in 1963 to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and has now based her practice in New York for over 50 years. Over the course of our …
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…