WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Of Homes and Windows in the 20th Century: In Conversation with Ken Tadashi Oshima, the Curator of Living Modernity: Experiments in Housing, 1920s–1970s

…rbusier explored this between Europe and America with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (1963) but also in India where houses such as…

Squint

A small obliquely angled opening cut into the wall or pier of a medieval European church. Commonly found in Christian ecclesiastical archite…

Hagioscope

A small obliquely angled opening cut into the wall or pier of a medieval European church. Commonly found in Christian ecclesiastical archite…

Lychnoscope

A small low-level window set into the sidewalls of medieval European churches often found in smaller churches and is typically left unadorne…

Stained glass

… became prominent in medieval European churches. This term also refers to any glasswork created using this technique. See also glass window …

Splayed window

…r. It is commonly observed in European historic architecture particularly in medieval churches castles and stone buildings and has been wide…

Blind window

…blind windows were created in Europe between the late 17th and mid-19th centuries to avoid the window tax a property tax based on the number…

Blank window

…blind windows were created in Europe between the late 17th and mid-19th centuries to avoid the window tax a property tax based on the number…

False window

…blind windows were created in Europe between the late 17th and mid-19th centuries to avoid the window tax a property tax based on the number…

Bay window

… It originated in Renaissance Europe and was commonly used in grand residences such as halls libraries and galleries. The term bay originall…

Louis Kahn and the Power of Shadow

Does shadow have the power to give form to architecture? The increasing number of transparent buildings and LED installations enforces the i…

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

…cussed the difference between European and Japanese windows through examples she designed as part of Atelier Bow-Wow while giving thoughts b…

The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass

…ngland. It is known as one of Europe’s leading glass manufacturers alongside France’s Saint-Gobain. In the 1950s it developed the float glas…

A Culmination of Sutemi Horiguchi’s Aperture Designs: The Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

…w he responded sensitively to European modernist trends and deftly ass…

A Conversation with Silke Langenberg

…est industrialized regions in Europe and rural communities played an important role as suppliers to the large textile companies based in St.…

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…

A Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House

…r 1931 at 27 she journeyed to Europe where she primarily resided in Paris and London before returning to Japan the following June. It was du…

Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku

…they bear some resemblance to European fireplaces tatami because they share their origins with carpets and fusuma because they are not quite…

Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)

…eighboring building where its European priest lives is built of breeze blocks as is commonly seen in the city tempering the beams of the pow…

Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple

…m around the world those from Europe for example remain in plain sight…

The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows

…n the manner of a traditional European window. In other words he belie…

A Tea House for Schönbrunn has been exhibited at the Japanese Garden in Schönbrunn

…nteractions between Japan and Europe using the example of the Japanese teahouse during the project “Learning from the Japanese Teahous…

Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology

…pared to those of traditional European masonry and brick architecture and the Corbusian free façades constructed with industrial materials s…

A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter

…-running bird count in all of Europe. It forms part of a small flat peninsula inside a lagoon that features a very dynamic landscape with qu…

Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts

…y around the world such as in Europe and the Middle East and it seems to have achieved a high enough level of status that even the British r…

Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window

…xception however as a type of European-style wall-based window did app…

Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India

…as was done in places such as Europe. Without walls there could be no windows. For thousands of years the people of the Japanese archipelago…

Working Skill Sets

…hat will be shown at my first European institutional solo exhibition at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen from March-May 2023…

Conversation with EMI Architekten

…y standards. Traditionally in Europe we have different proportions. In Switzerland we make widespread use of the vertical window – a kind of…

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…

Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)

…eaply mass produced. Outside Europe in places where there were neither ancient Romans nor an Industrial Revolution premodern windows remain…

Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)

…gun port windows were used in European strongholds and Japanese castle…

Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom

…newfangled art and culture of Europe. Amidst this moment of dramatic political economic cultural and religious change architecture saw the e…

A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein

…g of a special case. In other European countries as the costs of healthcare have escalated city hospitals have been replaced with large-scal…

Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence

…ji government which looked to Europe as its role model. Then with the second step it worked its way into the living spaces of ordinary peopl…

Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at Japan House London

After being exhibited at Japan House São Paulo the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan arrives at Japan House London …

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…

Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2

The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made …

Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details

Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…

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…

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…

Takashi Homma on photographing the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture

…rbusier’s architecture across Europe and Asia while advancing his own investigations of the photographic medium. Homma’s interpretations inc…

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 …

An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory

…for ten thousand years before European settlers arrived. I had to keep an eye on the bigger picture. I wanted the viewer to be aware that al…

A Conversation with Mario Botta

… a community this is what our European culture teaches us. CAB: Another characteristic that we observe in your houses is the use of geometry…

A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer

…his mother on Lake Geneva. In Europe in the early years of reconstruction after the Second World War there was intense discussion around how…

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…

Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

… trip around the world across Europe Asia Africa and South America with so many images. Iwan’s photos capture diverse objects ranging …