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Swiss Window Journeys: A Conversation between Andrea Deplazes, Laurent Stalder, and Momoyo Kaijima

On 12 April 2024 to celebrate the publication of Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology o…

Issue 14: A Window for Standing Still—Fieldoffice Architects, Paomagudao Park

This issue I’d like to introduce a park that I designed myself. Jiaoxi Yilan’s Paomagudao Park completed in 2021 was formerly th…

“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium to be held at the AIJ Hall on September 7, 2024

The Window Research Institute (WRI) is delighted to present the “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium. Shoei Yoh (1940–) beg…

“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report

…Yoh’s Designs and Theories in Education Huang’s presentation was about the relationship between Yoh’s design theories and practice. Yoh deve…

Talk Event Report: Swiss Window Journeys Speakers: Momoyo Kaijima, Chie Konno, Fumiko Takahama, Mio Tsuneyama

On June 22 2024 (Saturday) the Swiss Window Journeys – Swiss Windows and Architecture talk event was held in the Architectural Hall of the A…

The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass

Tomo Inoue a building construction expert engaged in efforts to digitally reconstruct Shoei Yoh’s works using 3D scanners explains the novel…

The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…

The International Christian University’s campus plan was originally designed by W. M. Vories & Co. and later developed by Antonin Raymon…

Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3

…e French Ministry of National Education and the classrooms and galleries had areas of 61.25 square meters (5×4 grids) and 122.5 square meter…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Under- and Overground Built Environments of the Soviet-German Uranium Mining Corporation Wismut

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…

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…

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…

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 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 …

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…

A Combining City: Cairo

I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy Cairo seeme…

The Architecture of the Window

In addition to his design practice the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a unique philosophical approach to the fiel…

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…

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…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

…2002) Chinen Village Board of Education “Sefa Utaki Development Project Report (Excavation survey material version)” Yashu Nakamatsu “Gods a…

How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the …

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…

What Do You Think of Glass?

Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo is the foremost authority on digital fabrication research in Japan. He hosted t…

Window into Another Culture

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

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window @ Tohoku University

… Engineering and Architecture Education and Research Building 1F 6-6-06 Aoba Aramaki-aza Aoba-kuSendai Miyagi [Contact] Taro Igarashi Labora…

Pleasure of Opening Windows

Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

Thinking about Windows through Photography

Contemporary photographer Takashi Homma held a conversation on the theme of “Thinking about Windows through Photography” with his long-time …

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

… Anniversary Memorial General Education Building to commercial facilities; Tezuka who designed the Fuji Kindergarten which is known for its …

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…

Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—

We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train on an airplane or in a café are always popular…

YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window

Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture

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

Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows

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

Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 4: Windows in Italian

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology

…sor at the College of General Education of Kyushu University and an as…

Vol. 3: Windows in English

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the con…

Vol. 2: Windows in German

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…