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Diffuse window

A window that diffuses direct sunlight while enhancing privacy using translucent materials such as paper screens frosted glass milky glass o…

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 …

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

…e: Window Behaviorology (2010 Film Art Inc. co-authored). Fumiko Takahama Fumiko Takahama was born in 1979. After graduating from Kyoto Uni…

“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…

A window with a memory

I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and p…

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…

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

After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet he would begi…

The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness

The Awazu House designed by Hiroshi Hara now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this …

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…

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…

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

The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…

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…

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…

Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window

Since Kunié Sugiura wrote about windows in New York last time let’s start this article on the topic of the American windows that were …

Transition of Kikugetsutei, Equipment In Between

This booklet contains the findings of the Waseda University Norihito Nakatani Seminarʼs Windowology research titled “Study on Hashirama-Soch…

WindowScape3: Window Workology

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on "Window W…

WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research on “Window and Stre…

Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture

…ects” “Vehicles” and “Art and Film.”…

Kunié Sugiura – My Window

A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world but when windows appear in photographs they are…

Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura

…rt of irrevocability to this. Film’s material ability to create layers of time has long captivated people and has surely played a part in th…

Screen Time

Screens are everywhere: stadiums stations billboards buildings refrigerators thermostats on our wrists and in our hands. As a physical inter…

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…

Working Skill Sets

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

Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture [in Japanese]

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Windows …

[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…

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 …

Online Event “Hashirama Sōchi: Richness of Space in Japanese Architecture – Talk by Nakatani Norihito” Presented by Japan House London

On Tuesday February 22 Japan House London will present an online event featuring Nakatani Norihito. Date  Tuesday 22 February 2022 Time  12:…

Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan

…mpleted a Doctoral Program in Film and New Media Studies at the Graduate School of Film and New Media Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013 a…

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

Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier will be presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Montreal. On display is a s…

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…

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

Here is a graphic novel spanning more than 300 pages that allows readers to experience millions of years of time while observing a single co…

Japan House Los Angeles Unveils New Exhibition: “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan”

…Windows on Stories Windows on Film Windows on Manga Windows on the Teahouse Windows on How We Live Now Windows on Motion and Windows on Word…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

The Window Research Institute will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows together wi…

Movie “A City of Columns”

movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …

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…

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

…f a Window and Architecture* (Film Art) and Beautiful Windows of the World* (X-Knowledge) among many others. (*Asterisked titles have been t…

Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London

Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicate…

Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander

Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to brea…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows
 at MOMAT, Tokyo

The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey…

Japan Through the Window Selected for Phase 3 of the Japan House Touring Exhibition Project

Following a strict selection process the jury for the 3rd phase of the Japan House Touring Exhibition Project has chosen Japan Through the W…

Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

…t year including the New York Film Festival. It seemed like a highly unique idea to produce a short film at the Biennale. What had inspired …

Cinder Windows

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…

Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures

…2015―Restaging “Expression in Film ’72” (2015) 14 Evenings (2012) and Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today (2009) all at MOMAT. …

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…

America (3)

Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

…ows and Architecture” through Film Art Inc. The Igarashi Laboratory ha…

Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019

The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition The Window (working title) which will be hosted by the show’s co-organiz…

Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) has…