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…

Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology

…on for Studies of Culture and Representation held in July 2022. Notes 1 ：Marsha Ackermann Cool Comfort: America’s Romance with Air-Conditi…

Double Vision

Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our l…

The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass

…on for Studies of Culture and Representation on July 3 2022. (handout)…

Screen Time

Screens are everywhere: stadiums stations billboards buildings refrigerators thermostats on our wrists and in our hands. As a physical inter…

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…

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…

Ch.1 The Battle for Realism

The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre “I made a dissolution of silver nitrate much diluted by water in the same proportions as those in…

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…

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 …

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…

High-rise condos and windows—from functionality to scenery—

The Attractiveness of A View Partial Ocean View Ocean View Ocean Front. If upon hearing these words you know what they are referring to it i…

Windows make society; Society makes windows

…f Windows (Takashi Machimura) Representation: High-rise condos and Windows (Rina Yamamoto) Application: The Criminology of Windows (Yutaka H…