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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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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
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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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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …
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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…
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp Indian salmon scallops and herring. There are gener…
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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
…ional food registered by Slow Food from the perspective of architecture. Graduated master course in Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2017. R…
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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
…elds and registered with Slow Food. I would like to investigate the architectural devices involved in producing wine in these harsh natural …
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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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Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
…imamura who wrote “Slow Food Life! – It Starts With the Italian Dining Table” (Shinchosha 2000) and was a pioneer of the Slow Fo…
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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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Vino Santo in Trentino
…roducers registered with Slow Food. There are various opinions concerning the origins of “Vino Santo.” One is a theory that Vene…
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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
…ional foods protected by Slow Food. The Slow Food movement was started by Carlo Petrini a journalist of wine and food who feared that the It…
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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)
Many valley-side settlements located 2-3000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in th…
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The scene of brilliant street
It’s pleasant to take a walk on the city of Paris. The roads which were built in a different reason and in a different era are crossin…
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Tracing the urban brickscape
As surprising as it may seem I feel that the true quality of a city such as London lies in its “disorderliness”. Within the city countless e…
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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2
I descended to the center of Larung Gar where it seemed a lecture or assembly had just ended as priests were entering and leaving the buildi…
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Vol. 4: Windows in Italian
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…