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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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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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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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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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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 Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
On the occasion of the “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan” currently being held in Copenhagen we conducted a serie…
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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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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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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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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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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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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus o…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
I gaze through the window. The scenery outside shines brightly while in a state of movement and I am drawn with fascination to all that unfo…
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
Linguist Yasunari Ueda has been delving into the origins of words from around the world that mean “window” to understand how the concepts be…
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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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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 …
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No.0: Six Topics for Makoto Ueda’s Interpretation of the Window Space
To kick off the series “Vague Focal Space at the Window” I interviewed Makoto Ueda the former Editor in Chief of Toshi Jutaku (Urban Housing…
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a living environment comfortable. Yet there …
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2005 (held at The University Art Museum T…
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Window Research Institute: New Website Launched
The Window Research Institute has renovated its website on March 31st 2022. With this renovation we overhauled the design and layout of the …
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Terunobu Fujimori| 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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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…
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Terunobu Fujimori|001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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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 …
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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made …
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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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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Sh…
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …
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“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…
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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…
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Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery …
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
I could see land the color of milk out of the airplane window. My journey had started in China moving ever westward from there and I was now…
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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
Natsume Soseki composed Inside Glass Doors at the end of his life. From inside his room the “I” of these essays watches the days go by medit…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
Before Al-Qahirah the city that would become Cairo was created in the 10th century the city of Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this r…
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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…