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The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)
Numazu Shizuoka—the birthplace of Kojiro Serizawa the author known for works such as Ningen no Unmei [The Fate of a Human]. Nestled in a pin…
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
The campus of Taiwan’s first private university Tunghai University stretches across the suburbs of Taichung a city in the center-west …
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A Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House
…graphical History of Women in Literature] (Tokyo: Kodansha 2016). 5: Sadajiro Muramatsu Nihon kenchikuka sanmyaku [The Lineal Mountain Range…
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
…by Pictoright in Amsterdam. Literature Bless F. Rietveld 1888-1964. Een biografie Amsterdam/Baarn 1982. Bronkhorst A. I. Van Zijl W. Zwiks…
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…
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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…
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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…
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Please refer to the event archive from below link: After being exhibited at the three Japan Houses in Los Angeles São Paulo and London we ar…
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Online Event “Hashirama Sōchi: Richness of Space in Japanese Architecture – Talk by Nakatani Norihito” Presented by Japan House London
…1) and The Study of Classical Literature the Meiji Period and Architects (Ikki Shuppan 1993). Nakatani received the Kon Wajirō Award from th…
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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan from 1 December 2021 unt…
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“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…
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Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery …
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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…
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Movie “A City of Columns”
movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicate…
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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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…
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
…1) and The Study of Classical Literature the Meiji Period and Architects (Ikki Shuppan 1993).…
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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 …
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
…1) and The Study of Classical Literature the Meiji Period and Architects (Ikki Shuppan 1993).…
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London and is home to the world’s largest collection of living p…
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and text. Part 1 of this series delivers five p…
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
…1) and The Study of Classical Literature the Meiji Period and Architects (Ikki Shuppan 1993). Cooperation: Kagawa Prefecture Special Place o…
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Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change
Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …
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Windows make society; Society makes windows
Is the Happy Era-of-the-Window Over? Which do you prefer: a society with windows or a society without windows? If asked I imagine the majori…
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Talk: Norihito Nakatani × Taro Igarashi at ISAIA
…1) and The Study of Classical Literature the Meiji Period and Architects (Ikki Shuppan 1993). Taro Igarashi Professor at Tohoku University …
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Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Vol. 2: Windows in German
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…