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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…
The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows

The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…
Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)

While this column has primarily introduced the windows of unnamed buildings in Taiwan there are a number of works of modern and contemporary…
Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window

Since Kunié Sugiura wrote about windows in New York last time let’s start this article on the topic of the American windows that were …
Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…
The Experimental Design of the House in Sapporo

Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate the House in Sapporo (Personal Residence) designed by r…
A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)

…ts worldwide such as the Tate Modern Prada Aoyama Epicenter and M+. Their accolades include the Pritzker Prize (2001) and RIBA Royal Gold Me…
Kunié Sugiura – My Window

…pe and freedom. The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were packed with artworks I had seen before in textb…
Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…
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…
The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass

…in Architecture. Religion and Modern Architecture as a History of Idea…
Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous

Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?

… Photography at the Museum of Modern Art New York had organized an exhibition of notable photographic works in the United States spanning th…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence

In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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. …
Today/Yesterday #2

This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
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…
From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography

…unsthalle Bern the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She participated in Documenta 11 in 2002 …
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 …
Shizuka Yokomizo｜Today/Yesterday #1

Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3

What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea level was creating shadows by bricks poplar…
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…
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…
A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1

What kind of place is a desert below sea level? Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an autonomous region …
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 …
Adobe Windows

… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …
Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)

We arrive at the town of Wuzhen in northern Zhejiang after a two-hour bus ride from Shanghai. This is an area famous for its beautiful river…

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