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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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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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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
…settlement in Iran (Traveling Asia through a Window: Masuleh) perhaps the same could be said even about modern architecture that is kept ali…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
…e introduced from continental Asia around 300 BCE bringing an end to t…
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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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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…es I’ve seen throughout Asia. Many of these homes also have spaces that are dark and warm along with spaces that are bright and open. …
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
…along the coasts of Southeast Asia (Buddhism’s southern transmission r…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
…hat was developed in tropical Asia where the great powers had extended their presence. Such houses early forms of which first appeared in th…
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Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura
Kokei and Jokei: Sights we see scenes we feel Whenever transparent glass is installed into buildings or trains or cars a boundary is establi…
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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…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
…make Taiwanese society one of Asia’s best for women’s social advancement. When you’re here in the center the “livin…
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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…
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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 …
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Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)
…life I’d seen before in Asian villages. At times this would take…
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
…illages and folk houses in 11 Asian and Middle Eastern countries (his essays about this trip are serialized on the Window Research Institute…
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
…says on windows as I traveled Asia because doing so allowed me to connect locations that are physically separated. The people of these lands…
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
…ols of architecture in Europe Asia the United States and Latin America. From his early single-family houses in Ticino his work has expanded …
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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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A Combining City: Cairo
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Sensing Mother Earth: Petra, Jordan
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan, Part 1
…nown to me regions of central Asia sprawl out made up of countries like Tajikistan Afghanistan and Pakistan. These were the Pamir Mountains …
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Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Coffee & Cake
The window of a café in Myeongdong Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on the top and a showcase window with sliding …
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A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In 2017 he graduated from Waseda Universityʼ…
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Hanok in Jeonju
The window of a house in Jeonju Hanok Village installed beneath the house’s large overhanging eaves. A fixed window is installed on the insi…
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 3
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran, part 2
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In 2017 he graduated from Waseda Universityʼ…
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (2)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In 2017 he graduated from Waseda Universityʼ…
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)
…aded to Wuzhen the “Venice of Asia”. With its 1300 year history the area of Wuzhen is divided into the cardinal directions by rivers that ru…
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (2)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Lim Residence
The window’s of Jimmy Lim’s private house in Kuala Lumpur. The windows revolved on a vertical axis and have no glass instead acting as louve…
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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In 2017 he graduated from Waseda Universityʼ…
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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)
…olk houses in 11 countries in Asia and the Middle East visiting countries from China to Israel. In Yilan CountyTaiwan he worked as an intern…
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Mido Cafe
The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. Inside tables and chairs are lined up alon…