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“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium to be held at the AIJ Hall on September 7, 2024

…0 Shiba Minato-ku Tokyo Japan Language: Japanese and English (simultaneous interpretation available) Admission: Free Capacity: 150 people (a…

“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report

On September 7 2024 the symposium “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” was held at the AIJ Hall (Architectural Institute of Japan Tokyo). Centere…

The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)

…ricks and Mixed Architectural Languages The third type of window is what we might call the “normal” infill window. This is not to say that t…

Issue 12: A Small Church for the Indigenous (Taitung)

It’s said that Christians now constitute around 7% of Taiwan’s population a rather high proportion compared to Japan’s sta…

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…

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…

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…

Screen Time

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

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…

Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect

Linguist Yasunari Ueda has been delving into the origins of words from around the world that mean “window” to understand how the concepts be…

Online seminar“Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet”

…11; 25:00 JST Location Online Language English Booking Essential Admission Free Registration https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_byU…

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 …

Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)

While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people” people belonging to a variety of ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While …

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…

Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia

The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery …

The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors

Natsume Soseki composed Inside Glass Doors at the end of his life. From inside his room the “I” of these essays watches the days go by medit…

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…

A Conversation with Mario Botta

Mario Botta a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland still lives and works in the area practicing architectural design.…

Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work

Chiharu Shiota is an ever-active Berlin-based artist. In works such as her large-scale installations that tie spaces together with massive a…

Ch.2 Symbolic Realism

The pioneers (2) Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reas…

Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures

The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated f…

Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2

I’ve come to realize that meeting with elders is the best way to learn about their village. Walking through a loess land of beautiful green …

Windows: Openings and devices

Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…

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…

Vino Santo in Trentino

Drive a car east from Milan go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy Lake Garda. Continue running north along the …

The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space

There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use of windows and glazing. Hernan Diaz Alon…

Architectural Ethnography, Part A

To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Windo…

How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the …

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open

Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th …

YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window

Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations

… use in different situations. Languages reflect real-world phenomena h…

Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…

Concept of a Window

Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the res…

Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 4: Windows in Italian

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology

…rds for “Window” in Different Languages What meanings did the words fo…

Vol. 3: Windows in English

…nal Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. Springfield: Merriam-Webster 2002. -Hori Tatsunosuke. Eiwa taiyaku shūchin jisho (A Pocke…

Vol. 2: Windows in German

…s piece. *substrate language: Language originally spoken by the people…