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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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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…th Awazu “We met at the Environment Society (Enbairamento no kai). I suppose you could just say we got along” (“Hiroshi Ha…
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva Switzerland in 2003. François Charbonnet one of its co-principals…
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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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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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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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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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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron the Basel-based architectural duo founded their firm in 1978 after studying architecture at ETH Zurich. They have sin…
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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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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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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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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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Today/Yesterday #2
This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
Candida Höfer is one of Germany’s leading contemporary photographers. She studied under master photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher and is t…
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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 …
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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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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.…
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) led by architect Momoyo Kaijima condu…
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A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3
What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea level was creating shadows by bricks poplar…
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Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran
I took a cheap shared taxi from Zanjan in northwest Iran headed next to the ancient ruins of Takht-e Soleymān. An archeological site centere…
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusi…
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A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1
What kind of place is a desert below sea level? Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an autonomous region …
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The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran
Outside my bus window a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white shar…
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Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch
An artist contemplates a blank canvas or a white piece of paper in the studio or at a table perhaps waiting for a memory or some inspiration…
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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…
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)
Iran was an unknown land to me before I visited it myself. My vague image of it had been of a desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. A…
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…
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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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Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
…ron Josetsu” (Introduction to Environmental Architecture Theory Shokoku-sha 1979) to our seminar to speak about their work. Through these le…
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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 …
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
… “Conservation Management and Environmental Preservation Plan for a National Historic Site Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine”(2009) ・Tatsuru Sagai “Hiyo…
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
…Studies on Divine & Human Environment in Ryukyuan Rituals” (Tsutomu Iyori Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan 2005) on p.429 2. The current yohai…
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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Window…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Windo…
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
Reiser + Umemoto is the architect duo behind the design of the O-14 office tower in Dubai. What ultimately supported the realization of the …
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London and is home to the world’s largest collection of living p…
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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with architects / architectural critic working…
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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…
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What Do You Think of Glass?
…fornia at Berkeley College of Environmental Design and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Eric Owen Moss Architects was founded…
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
Windowology: Study on Hashirama-Sochi; Equipment In Between ─Transition of Kikugetsutei─ movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei” Kiku…
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…
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Sunny Loggia House
Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of n…