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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century is the large window. That is windows mu…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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WindowScape3: Window Workology
…te of Technology Published by Film Art Inc. FEBRUARY 2017 Softcover 14.8 x 21 cm 288 Pages ISBN 9784845916115 ¥2600…
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WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy
…te of Technology Published by Film Art Inc. (Japanese Edition) FEBRUARY 2014 (Japanese and Chinese Edition) Softcover A5 variant 288 Pages I…
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Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture
…ects” “Vehicles” and “Art and Film.” Aphorisms on Windows and Architecture Taro Igarashi Lab. (Tohoku University) Published by Kensetsutsus…
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WindowScape: Window Behaviorology
…te of Technology Published by Film Art Inc. (Japanese Edition) 2010 (Japanese Edition)/2011 (Chinese Edition)/2012 (English Edition)/2015 (K…
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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…
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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…
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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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Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture
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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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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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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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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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. …
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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…
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
…ows and Architecture” through Film Art Inc. The Igarashi Laboratory ha…
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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…
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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…
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…
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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …
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Windowology film “Transition of Kikugetsutei”screening at AFFR, the worldʼs largest architectural film festival in Rotterdam
…h edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) in 2018. The film was produced in 2015 by Nakatani Seminar as a part of the Win…
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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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America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses” we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the orig…