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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)

The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on th…
Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…
Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)

The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations …
Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places

Fushimi: Today as we begin our new series “Madosoto: Outside Scenery” we would like to discuss the scenery outside the window. First let me …
A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein

Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date they have be…
Online Event “Windowology: Talk by Igarashi Tarō” Presented by Japan House London

On Thursday January 27 Japan House London will present an online event featuring Windowology Exhibition Director Igarashi Tarō. Date Thursd…
Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)

I left the village of Yeyin and took a trip around the island. Going o…
Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)

While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people” people belonging to a variety of ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While …
Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan

The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan from 1 December 2021 unt…
Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong

After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …
“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo

This exhibition showcases windows as fundamental elements of the Japanese society After being exhibited at Japan House Los Angeles the origi…
A Conversation with Peter Märkli

Peter Märkli one of Switzerland’s leading architects started his career after meeting his mentor the architect Rudolf Olgiati. In 1978 he es…
Today/Yesterday #2

This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada

Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home …
An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory

…d a record. Richard McGuire (Artist) Richard McGuire is an American artist whose work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and …
Shizuka Yokomizo｜Today/Yesterday #1

Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society”

Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society” On Monda…
An Alien Landscape from the Window

Clear air born from the trees the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprout from the earth and flowers floating in a…
A Conversation with Mario Botta

Mario Botta a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland still lives and works in the area practicing architectural design.…
Rei Naito: Mirror Creation

Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them posing the question “Isn’t simply existing o…
Japan House Los Angeles Unveils New Exhibition: “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan”

Exhibition Marks First for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles Since Pandemic Closure; Featuring Windows & Their Unique Perspectives on the World Th…
Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei

Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wa…
Life Seeps Through Frosted Glass

Clear air born from the trees the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprout from the earth and flowers floating in a…
Nature Behind a Curtain Wall

Clear air born from the trees the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprout from the earth and flowers floating in a…
The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

The Window Research Institute will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows together wi…
A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer

The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) led by architect Momoyo Kaijima condu…
Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander

…ed a biennial publication The Artists’ Yearbook for Thames & Hudson from 2005-2010. His book titled Ways of Looking: How to Experience C…
The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows  at MOMAT, Tokyo

The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey…
Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work

Chiharu Shiota is an ever-active Berlin-based artist. In works such as her large-scale installations that tie spaces together with massive a…
Symbolic Realism

The pioneers (2) Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reas…
Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch

…ed a biennial publication The Artists’ Yearbook for Thames & Hudson from 2005-2010. His book titled Ways of Looking: How to Experience C…
Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

Based in London 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including t…
The Battle for Realism

The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre “I made a dissolution of silver nitrate much diluted by water in the same proportions as those in…
Cinder Windows

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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…
The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan

The Bauhaus founded in 1919 in Weimar Germany laid the foundations for modern design with its innovative curriculum that embraced the abstra…
Adobe Windows

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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…
Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019

The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition The Window (working title) which will be hosted by the show’s co-organiz…
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3

…f Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. Since then she has worked on editorial design and curation both inside and outside of Japan. From 201…
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2

…f Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. Since then she has worked on editorial design and curation both inside and outside of Japan. From 201…
From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography

Candida Höfer is one of Germany’s leading contemporary photographers. She studied under master photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher and is t…
Spaces In Between

Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1

…f Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. Since then she has worked on editorial design and curation both inside and outside of Japan. From 201…
Window Research Institute Re-Established as a General Incorporated Foundation

Contributing to the Development of Rich Windows and Architectural Cult…
You Make a Better Window Than a Door

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
Movie “THE CORALLUM”

movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …
In New York: Windows and Looks

Since traveling to New York in the 1970s artist Masao Gozu has spent over 40 years unveiling work that takes the window as its theme. His Bo…

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