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“Light is Light and Light”
…ere both designed for the 1st Japan Expo Toyama ’92 and the project files for each contain some material related to the other—which in the d…
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A window with a memory
… in various places throughout Japan as well as through windows in people’s homes in Korea and the UK. Other Days Other Eyes: Windows from th…
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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
…inking about in other words a Japanese window of black glass with a night scene exposure printed onto it and a French window covered in blac…
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
…ies written by researchers in Japan and Canada delves into Yoh’s archival materials to contemplate the light that the architect aimed to cap…
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
…ō [Architectural Institute of Japan (Tokai Chapter): Summaries of Technical Lectures F-2: Architectural History/Design] (Architectural Insti…
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…1929-2009) a leading post-war Japanese graphic designer. Self-taught in painting and design he received the Japan Advertising Artists Club A…
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
…am of Takamasa Yoshizaka from Japan and Ching-Fong Lin from Taiwan won the 1952 competition to plan the school’s campus. While it̵…
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the seventh installment he focuses on the shōji of the Rinshunkaku. Originally built …
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…ve been shaped by. However in Japan I think there was a perception that the form is more important for architecture while the systems are so…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
…rchitects are known at all in Japan. Today I’d like to introduce works by a likely even less-known architect in this “first gene…
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
The architectural movement of Metabolism arose in the 1960s when Japan’s cities began to reemerge from the devastation of World War II. It w…
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Katsura Catholic Church
…akashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of the main building is composed simply of a thin rhomboid hyperbolic paraboloid shell ro…
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Tilt windows
Tilt windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the bottom of the frame and are opened by being tilted inwards. As they do not open wid…
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Awning windows
Awning windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the top of the frame and are opened by being pushed outwards. The glass surface acts …
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Folding windows
Folding windows consist of two or more hinge-connected panels that form a single door which can be folded away along the length of the openi…
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Stacked awning windows
Stacked awning windows are composed of a vertical arrangement of sashes that swing up and outwards all at once with the use of a handle. The…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the sixth insta…
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
… windows [normally written in Japanese as 窓 and pronounced mado] Seike…
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
…d including in Greater China (Japan’s lattice windows may be connected to them as well). While many wood-carved latticed doors can be …
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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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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…ontemporary Taiwan. As far as Japan goes there are amateurs there who enjoy it as a pure sport with no prize money involved. In any case the…
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Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window
…ilding (originally the Nagoya Japan Conscription Hall it was built in 1939 by Yokogawa Construction and modeled after modern American offic…
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. The focus of the fi…
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
…be looked upon as a beacon of Japanese north-country architecture to this day. Now I would like to provide an overview of the housing situat…
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. For the fourth installment he discusses the French windows (French doors) of the Glover …
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
… Publishing 2020 pp.10-11 (in Japanese with English summary). This poi…
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
…s” during the period of Japanese rule. It may be that qilous were already there in Taiwan and were simply brought to light by the law …
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
…ould later gain popularity in Japan like Robert Mapplethorpe those of the so-called New Color Photography movement such as William Eggleston…
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
…or “mado” [“window” in common Japanese] in Teruo Hirayama’s book Amami hōgen kisogoi no kenkyū [A study on the basic vocabulary of the Amami…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. In article number three he discusses the vertical sliding windows (agesagemado) of the Pu…
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
…ne and temple construction in Japan also used such ebikouryou beams as…
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Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places
… are used mainly for building Japanese tea houses and Sukiya-style architecture in the northwest of Kyoto City Kita Ward. As you may know Na…
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No.0: Six Topics for Makoto Ueda’s Interpretation of the Window Space
…ommon now that every house in Japan has a children’s room. However in Japan such a room was a rarity in those days about 100 years ago. For …
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
…ow even if the “Madosoto” (in Japanese “mado” means “window” and “soto” means “outside”) is not a grand natural landscape a magnificent gard…
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
…fa built against a window In Japan it seems that designing the sofa to be built on the back of the window was common after FUJII Koji and o…
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Yosuitei, Thirteen-Window Tearoom
About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuitei is a tha…
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Terunobu Fujimori| 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. The subject of the second installment is the Yosuitei a reconstructed teahouse (chashitsu…
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The Yosuitei13 Bokusekimado
…e alcove. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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The Yosuitei11 Shitajimado, 12 Renjimado and Kendonbusuma
…teahouse. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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The Yosuitei06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08 Nijiriguchi, 09/10 Shitajimado and Renjimado
…n opened. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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The Yosuitei03 Furosakimado
…half way. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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The Yosuitei01/02 Shikishimado
…r screen. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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The Yosuitei04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado
…d beside. About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuit…
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
… after her initial studies at Japanʼs Womenʼs University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…