WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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…

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 …

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…

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.…

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…

Movie “A City of Columns”

movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …

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…

Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology” an extensive field work on windows around t…

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2

The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel freespace indicates freeing space and actions …

Liquid Light

Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …

Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)

Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown rocky moun…

Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…

Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”

This serial article “the Joys of Making Windows” by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory of Keio University comprises five parts and intr…

Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2

As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet rea…

Window into Another Culture

Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…

Window Embracing the Hometown

Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary Symposium: Windows Represent Civilization and Culture

Tuesday October 3 2017 @ Spiral Hall (Minato-ku Tokyo) A 9-hour academic symposium centered on windows Featuring 27 participants from around…

Design Action, Self-involvement: The World Seen from Making a Window

Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC implements activities aiming for regeneration and reinforcement of a community with a foc…

Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3

The following morning when I arrived at Classy’s house at the scheduled time we met with another man who seemed to be about the same age as …

The Criminology of Windows

According to sociologist Georg Simmel windows have two fundamental meanings. Firstly they create a unilateral connection between the inside …

Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change

Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …

Movie “The Birth Canal”

movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…

Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1

A square hole on dry ocherous land. People live inside that hole. I stopped in on the village of Zhangcun in Sanmenxia City Henan. It is loc…

MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”

The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma who h…