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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
In this fourth book in the WindowScape book series, Yoshiharu Tsukamot…
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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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Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes
Momoyo Kaijima's chair of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zurich, h…
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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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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
Why wasn’t it a window? I organized an exhibition called Medium and Dimension: Liminal and wrote a text for the exhibition catalogue entitle…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
…2 Then in 2021 the Australian Design Centre presented Revisiting Shoei Yoh an exhibition that surveyed Yoh’s work from the perspectives of b…
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
…ct for restarting his career. Design work on the buildings was started right away in 1956 and construction was completed around the spring o…
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…s writers or in dialogues for Design hihyou (Fudosha 1966-70) a magazine for which Awazu worked as editor-in-chief.2 “At this time my…
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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.
… of which is an arched door). Designed as casements composed of small panes the windows undoubtedly let in quite a breeze when opened. Unfor…
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
…iate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) Rice Univ…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…revised their size estimates. Designing a project from its requirements in this way can significantly impact how it is sited and scaled in r…
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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
One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century is the large window. That is windows mu…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
… Arts Schools of Architecture Design and Conservation (KADK). Sebastian Skovsted studied at the KADK and Delft University of Technology (TU …
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our l…
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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
…i Junior College of Art & Design (the predecessor of today’s Nagoya Zokei University) but at the time when she was studying painti…
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Conversations on Windows and Architecture
The Japan Pavilion produced for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the 2016 Venice Biennale was awarded a special mention. Ti…
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WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition
…Salone Exhibit (Tokyo Midtown Design Hub 2014) which was the homecoming show of an exhibit YKK AP co-produced with Atelier Bow-Wow for the 2…
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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
…he window. 2. In an Interior Design: Carefully Reading the Existing Conditions In November of 1968 Judd set up his home and studio at 101…
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
… at ZHAW Zurich and acting as Design Support in the department for civil engineers at ETH Zurich. In 2017 Raúl Mera joined Herzog & de M…
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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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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
…; Sakaushi Taku Architectural Design Capability Shokokusya Publishing …
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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
…rofessor for Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich since 2018. To learn about their projects and approach to designing windows the Chair of …
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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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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Please refer to the event archive from below link: After being exhibited at the three Japan Houses in Los Angeles São Paulo and London we ar…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
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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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …