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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024

Applications for the 2024 cycle are now closed. Thank you to all who applied. The Window Research Institute in collaboration with the Canadi…

Talk Event Report: Swiss Window Journeys Speakers: Momoyo Kaijima, Chie Konno, Fumiko Takahama, Mio Tsuneyama

On June 22 2024 (Saturday) the Swiss Window Journeys – Swiss Windows and Architecture talk event was held in the Architectural Hall of the A…

A Conversation with Silke Langenberg

Silke Langenberg Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been conducti…

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…

A Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House

Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951) a prominent Showa era writer established a new residence in Shimoochiai (present-day Nakai) Tokyo in 1941 amid a …

The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.

The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …

A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)

Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva Switzerland in 2003. François Charbonnet one of its co-principals…

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…

Katsura Catholic Church

Completed in 1965 the Katsura Catholic Church in Kyoto is known as the only George Nakashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of th…

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…

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 …

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…

Revolving windows

Revolving windows rotate either horizontally or vertically around the central axis of a window frame. The former type typically swings inwar…

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…

The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo

Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo design…

Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura

Kokei and Jokei: Sights we see scenes we feel Whenever transparent glass is installed into buildings or trains or cars a boundary is establi…

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…

CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023

The Window Research Institute in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) offers the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship—a prog…

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…

The Yosuitei13　Bokusekimado

13　 Bokusekimado A bokusekimado (lit. “brushwork window”) also known as a hanaakarimado (lit. “flower lighting window”) or an oribemado (lit…

The Yosuitei11　Shitajimado, 12　Renjimado and Kendonbusuma

11　 Shitajimado The shitajimado (exposed lath window) positioned near the ceiling beside the decorative alcove (tokonoma) is another unique …

The Yosuitei06/07　Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08　Nijiriguchi, 09/10　Shitajimado and Renjimado

06/07　 Shitajimado and Renjimado Another instance where Enshu used his favorite combination of an upper shitajimado (exposed lath window) an…

The Yosuitei03　Furosakimado

03　Furosakimado A furosakimado (lit. “window beyond the brazier”) is a type of window made in the wall behind the brazier used in tea ceremo…

The Yosuitei01/02　Shikishimado

01/02 Shikishimado A shikishimado (lit. “calligraphy board window”) is a type of window composed of a stacked pair of openings that are shif…

The Yosuitei04/05　Shitajimado and Renjimado

04/05　Shitajimado and Renjimado Enshu liked to stack shitajimado (exposed lath window) on top of renjimado (slatted window) and he has done …

Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)

I left the village of Yeyin and took a trip around the island. Going o…

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 …

CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2022

This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…

Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong

After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …

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

…I read a conversation titled “Lifestyle of the Author” (March 22 1914 Asahi Shimbun Osaka Edition) in a supplementary volume to a pocket siz…

A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada

Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home …

Dreh-Kipp Windows

Windows with two opening and closing functions one of which involves rotating inwards horizontally (“collapsing inwards”) while the other op…

Horizontal Outward Projecting Window

In this sort of window the upper frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves up or down along a groove or rail attached to the top and bo…

Movie “A City of Columns”

…rû [Smart living in the city: Lifestyles in the three Kamigata cities]. Tokyo: Heibonsha 2005. Figure Credits Fig. 1. Photograph by Nakatani…

Vertical Outward Projecting Window

In this sort of window either the left or right frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves to the left or right along a groove or rail a…

Power Window

Windows that open and close mainly through electric power using a switch or remote control to operate them are called power windows. As they…

The Architecture of the Window

In addition to his design practice the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a unique philosophical approach to the fiel…

High Altitude Window

Installed in a high place such as the top of a stairwell this sort of window facilitates “gravitational ventilation” by making use of how wa…

Casement Window

Casement windows open by rotating horizontally to the left and right from the center taking either the left or right edge as an axis. Some o…

Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2

After driving for about 7 minutes in Classy’s car the windshield of which had a crack in it we arrived at a wetland area that was completely…

Sash Window

A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels vertically over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding…

Double Sliding Window

A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels horizontally over two or more grooves or rails is called a double slidi…

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…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …

Architectural Ethnography, Part B

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

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…

Into the Depth of the Window

The end of summer time like the morning air which feels more and more crisp as the days go by is one of those things that remind me of the c…

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

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