WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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…

Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)

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

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

…ne of her homes the Museum of Modern Art or the home of a collector. There are accounts of her hanging art at both Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu t…

Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places

Fushimi: Today as we begin our new series “Madosoto: Outside Scenery” we would like to discuss the scenery outside the window. First let me …

Window Research Institute: New Website Launched

…ew content featuring Japanese Modern Architecture built between the pre-war times and the 1970s and which is still lived in today. We will e…

Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design

A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2005 (held at The University Art Museum T…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows

…te and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT). This exhibition remarked on the windows that have been intimately connected to our d…

Windowology: Selected Research

…tly by the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and Window Research Institute. Vol.1 The History of Windows Vol.2 Linguistics of the Window…

Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows

This book presents findings from the Tohoku University Taro Igarashi Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Window History” (2007–2009…

The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change

In October of last year (2021) the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya Nakano Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective …

Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom

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

A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein

Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date they have be…

Online Event “Hashirama Sōchi: Richness of Space in Japanese Architecture – Talk by Nakatani Norihito” Presented by Japan House London

On Tuesday February 22 Japan House London will present an online event featuring Nakatani Norihito. Date  Tuesday 22 February 2022 Time  12:…

Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence

…Western-Style Architecture of Modern Japan*(Chikumashobo). Has designed many history museums art museums houses and tea houses. Recent works…

Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2

…m as an “artisan/engineer” in Modern Architecture.2  However he may be…

Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details

Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…

Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window

This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …

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…

Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel

…d solar energy water heaters. Modern infrastructure relentlessly demanded space even in this Old City that consists of historic structures. …

Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window

This is a wooden two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was restored in 1960. The modern-day post off…

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 …

An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory

…e collection of the Museum of Modern Art and at the Morgan Library & Museum. His artistic output is multidisciplinary. He has made sound…

Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society”

…ontinuation of the California Modernist ethos infused with reinterpretations of traditional Japanese elements. Moderator | Fiona Wilson Asi…

Rei Naito: Mirror Creation

…rieur de l’eau (The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura Kanagawa 2009); the emotion of belief (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum 2014); émotions…

Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei

…the quintessential painter of Modern American life Edward Hopper looked in from his roving position on the outside of New York’s apart…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

…n; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. Read more Please note that there may be furt…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

…n; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. The show sets out to convey the inexhaustibl…

Movie “A City of Columns”

…s. Standardized Spaces Early Modern Osaka’s Rational Construction System Now let us take a look at the history of Osaka nagaya. As the urba…

A Combining City: Cairo

…w into the Mediterranean sea. Modern-day Cairo was originally the city of al-Qāhirah built by the 10th century Fatimid Caliphate and it exis…

Exhibition delays – The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MIMOCA

…dation The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo; The Window Research Institute Academic Adviser: Igarashi Taro (Professor Tohoku University/ …

A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer

The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) led by architect Momoyo Kaijima condu…

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…

Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

…s from a book – African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana Senegal Côte D’ivoire Kenya Zambia (Park Book) –…

Sensing Mother Earth: Petra, Jordan

During my trip I saw many ruins in many countries. While these sites stood distant from our modern lives the people who created them must no…

Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran

I experienced no small amount of culture shock in Iran as it was the first Islamic country I visited. Many of the people I passed on the str…

Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander

Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to brea…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows
 at MOMAT, Tokyo

The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) held an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows
 at MOMAT, Tokyo

The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey…

Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran

The bus that headed from northern to southern Iran passed once more through alien landscapes created by the desert. It’s as if one mus…

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…

Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture

…tural Positions: Architecture Modernity and the Public Sphere” that was published in 2007? It gives interesting insights into how architectu…

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…

Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

… in 2017. Books include Never Modern produced in collaboration with Irénée Scalbert (Park Books 2014) and a monograph by El Croquis was publ…

Cinder Windows

… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō  “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …

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…

The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan

…eld at The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto in 2018. Jin Motohashi an assistant curator at the museum and one of the exhibition’s organiz…

Adobe Windows

… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō  “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…