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Of Homes and Windows in the 20th Century: In Conversation with Ken Tadashi Oshima, the Curator of Living Modernity: Experiments in Housing, 1920s–1970s
In the twentieth century as waves of modernization swept across the globe the home became a site of architectural experimentation—an arena i…
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Horizontal sliding window
A window with two or more sashes that slide horizontally within a frame. It can combine various fittings such as glass panes screen doors or…
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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…
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
Applications for the 2024 cycle are now closed. Thank you to all who applied. The Window Research Institute in collaboration with the Canadi…
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A Conversation with Leth & Gori
How do you create a house that can be maintenance-free for 50 years and last for at least 150 years? The Brick House designed by the Denmark…
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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…
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Architecture in Motion
Architect YU Momoeda who is a long-time admirer of Shoei Yoh participated in the Find and Tell residency program of the Canadian Centre for …
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Shoei Yoh: Architecture of Light, the Real, and Monism
Architectural historian Yoshitake Doi who began teaching in Kyushu in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand as Fukuoka-based Shoei Yoh completed…
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Issue 13: Democracy Under Canopies (Fieldoffice Architects)
Democracy and freedom have now spread throughout Taiwan a place where …
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“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium to be held at the AIJ Hall on September 7, 2024
…stablished in 2019 within the Environmental Design Global Hub of the Kyushu University Graduate School of Design following its acquisition o…
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“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report
…reservation research that the Environmental Design Global Hub an international researcher center at Kyushu University has been conducting in…
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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…
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The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)
Numazu Shizuoka—the birthplace of Kojiro Serizawa the author known for works such as Ningen no Unmei [The Fate of a Human]. Nestled in a pin…
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A Culmination of Sutemi Horiguchi’s Aperture Designs: The Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)
The exhibition Explorations of Horiguchi Sutemi: Modernism Rikyu Garde…
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The Windows of Tomoya Masuda’s Naruto Cultural Center: A Faintly Bright Louvered Space
The Naruto Cultural Center is a posthumous work by architect Tomoya Masuda. It is one of several buildings that the former Kyoto University …
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A Conversation with Silke Langenberg
Silke Langenberg Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been conducti…
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The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4
After resuming his creative activities with his new firm Jean Prouvé Constructions Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille i…
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Issue 12: A Small Church for the Indigenous (Taitung)
It’s said that Christians now constitute around 7% of Taiwan’s population a rather high proportion compared to Japan’s sta…
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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
In this fourth book in the WindowScape book series Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's laboratory carefully researched window design in Sweden Finland and…
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Why Norman Foster Scoops Daylight into his Buildings
Norman Foster known for blending art and science in architecture has led the field since the late 20th century. His designs balancing high-t…
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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 Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House
Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951) a prominent Showa era writer established a new residence in Shimoochiai (present-day Nakai) Tokyo in 1941 amid a …
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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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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
…: Engineer and the Controlled Environment 1900–1960 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1998). Specifically on the adoption of air co…
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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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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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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
0. Introduction——Why Judd Now? Donald Judd (1928–94) an icon of American Minimalism has many admirers in the architecture world. Presumably …
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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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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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Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate, Montréal, Canada
The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
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Mediating Light: The Architectures of Photographic Production
The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
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A new building under the sun
The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
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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…
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Earth-Shelter Builders and the Code
… Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism” held at MoMA between September 17 and January 20 2024. The complete collection of Wells’s pu…
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Salt and Land: Shifting Territories of the Salt Production Sites in the Seto Inland Sea
The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
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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
…e Under- and Overground Built Environments of the Uranium Industries in the GDR Name Tomomi Miyata Affiliation Tokyo Institute of T…
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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…
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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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Fifty stories around Window and Architecture
This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the results of past "Windowology" research by architects researchers and YKK AP. Edi…
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021) the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya Nakano Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective …
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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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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan from 1 December 2021 unt…