WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Of Homes and Windows in the 20th Century: In Conversation with Ken Tadashi Oshima, the Curator of Living Modernity: Experiments in Housing, 1920s–1970s

In the twentieth century as waves of modernization swept across the globe the home became a site of architectural experimentation—an arena i…

Terunobu Fujimori│008: The Ribbon Window of the Karuizawa Summer House—The Modernists’ Dream, Realized in Japan

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…

From Interiors to Non-Architecture

Architect and architectural history researcher Masaaki Iwamoto who has been leading the development of the Shoei Yoh Archive sheds light on …

The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass

Tomo Inoue a building construction expert engaged in efforts to digitally reconstruct Shoei Yoh’s works using 3D scanners explains the novel…

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…

Why Norman Foster Scoops Daylight into his Buildings

Norman Foster known for blending art and science in architecture has led the field since the late 20th century. His designs balancing high-t…

Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations

0. Introduction——Why Judd Now? Donald Judd (1928–94) an icon of American Minimalism has many admirers in the architecture world. Presumably …

Earth-Shelter Builders and the Code

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

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…

“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo

This exhibition showcases windows as fundamental elements of the Japanese society After being exhibited at Japan House Los Angeles the origi…

A Conversation with Mario Botta

…pe Asia the United States and Latin America. From his early single-family houses in Ticino his work has expanded to encompass many other bui…

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

Exhibition Marks First for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles Since Pandemic Closure; Featuring Windows & Their Unique Perspectives on the World Th…

Casa Barragan

The window looking onto the inner garden of Louis Barragan’s house is divided into a large fixed window and a lattice window. The bottom lef…

Casa Priet Lopez

A window looking onto the garden of a house built by Louis Barragan in the wealthy residential neighborhood of San Angel in Mexico City. Whi…

Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch

An artist contemplates a blank canvas or a white piece of paper in the studio or at a table perhaps waiting for a memory or some inspiration…

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…

In New York: Windows and Looks

Since traveling to New York in the 1970s artist Masao Gozu has spent over 40 years unveiling work that takes the window as its theme. His Bo…

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 …

“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”

Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with architects / architectural critic working…

A Conversation on Windows and Stories

This is a video of a conversation on windows and stories between architect Hiroshi Hara and contemporary artist Leandro Erlich. Filmed on Ap…

Boca Mina San Ramon

A window in a restaurant next to La Valenciana silver mine on the outskirts of Guanajuato. A cylinder is inserted into the thick wall—on the…

Hostal Vallarta

A window looking out onto an interior courtyard in a hotel in Guadalajara. The arch-shaped opening made with inexpensive steel angles is div…

Shizuka Yokomizo + Takashi Homma The Origin of the Idea

One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series in which she has used photography to capture the distance between h…

Loncheria Cocos le Club

The window of a sandwich shop near Lake Chapala in a town on the outskirts of Guadalajara. The counter is used as a table with chairs lined …

Camino Real Polamnco Mexio

The window of a guestroom in a hotel by Ricardo Legorreta. One can walk out into the large garden. Camino Real Polamnco Mexio 1 Hotel / Mexi…

Vol. 3: Windows in English

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the con…