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Of Homes and Windows in the 20th Century: In Conversation with Ken Tadashi Oshima, the Curator of Living Modernity: Experiments in Housing, 1920s–1970s

… window problem as the Window Research Institute does. Rather than treating windows as an afterthought in design they should be viewed as ce…

Swiss Window Journeys: A Conversation between Andrea Deplazes, Laurent Stalder, and Momoyo Kaijima

On 12 April 2024 to celebrate the publication of Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology o…

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…

A Conversation with Leth & Gori

How do you create a house that can be maintenance-free for 50 years and last for at least 150 years? The Brick House designed by the Denmark…

Issue 14: A Window for Standing Still—Fieldoffice Architects, Paomagudao Park

This issue I’d like to introduce a park that I designed myself. Jiaoxi Yilan’s Paomagudao Park completed in 2021 was formerly th…

01│Antoni Gaudí: A “Sensible Architect”

Introduction The window is an extremely popular motif among architects. It would be natural to think that the possibilities for window desig…

Architecture in Motion

Architect YU Momoeda who is a long-time admirer of Shoei Yoh participated in the Find and Tell residency program of the Canadian Centre for …

Shoei Yoh’s “Light Architecture”

Through this series “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” we have compiled analyses of the work of architect Shoei Yoh focused on the theme of lig…

Shoei Yoh: Architecture of Light, the Real, and Monism

Architectural historian Yoshitake Doi who began teaching in Kyushu in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand as Fukuoka-based Shoei Yoh completed…

Issue 13: Democracy Under Canopies (Fieldoffice Architects)

Democracy and freedom have now spread throughout Taiwan a place where …

Terunobu Fujimori│008: The Ribbon Window of the Karuizawa Summer House—The Modernists’ Dream, Realized in Japan

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

“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium to be held at the AIJ Hall on September 7, 2024

The Window Research Institute (WRI) is delighted to present the “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium. Shoei Yoh (1940–) beg…

“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report

…versity (Fukuoka). The Window Research Institute (organizer) has been supporting the research activities of the Kyushu University Shoei Yoh …

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

…d was organized by the Window Research Institute and the Japan Swiss Architectural Association. Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field No…

From Interiors to Non-Architecture

Architect and architectural history researcher Masaaki Iwamoto who has been leading the development of the Shoei Yoh Archive sheds light on …

The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass

Tomo Inoue a building construction expert engaged in efforts to digitally reconstruct Shoei Yoh’s works using 3D scanners explains the novel…

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…

A Culmination of Sutemi Horiguchi’s Aperture Designs: The Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

…oname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (now the Tokoname Tou…

The Windows of Tomoya Masuda’s Naruto Cultural Center: A Faintly Bright Louvered Space

The Naruto Cultural Center is a posthumous work by architect Tomoya Masuda. It is one of several buildings that the former Kyoto University …

The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…

…g at the heart of the campus. Researcher Yu Kishi delves into the history of these two buildings by focusing on their windows. Introductio…

A Conversation with Silke Langenberg

…together with Gramazio Kohler Research. A student in the MAS in Digital has already produced a prototype that will be installed in the Schat…

The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4

After resuming his creative activities with his new firm Jean Prouvé Constructions Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille i…

Issue 12: A Small Church for the Indigenous (Taitung)

It’s said that Christians now constitute around 7% of Taiwan’s population a rather high proportion compared to Japan’s sta…

The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows

…indows jointly held by Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT). This exhibition remarked on the win…

The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture

In this fourth book in the WindowScape book series Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's laboratory carefully researched window design in Sweden Finland and…

“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark

…orked closely with the Window Research Institute and Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Tsukamoto Laboratory. In 2022 the museum showcased the …

Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes

…nancial support of the Window Research Institute. Conversations include Christine Binswanger and Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron) Mario Bot…

“Light is Light and Light”

The Archaeology of the Digital exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2013 served as a catalyst for reevaluating t…

A window with a memory

I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and p…

Windows: Overlapping and passing through

Why wasn’t it a window? I organized an exhibition called Medium and Dimension: Liminal and wrote a text for the exhibition catalogue entitle…

Why Norman Foster Scoops Daylight into his Buildings

Norman Foster known for blending art and science in architecture has led the field since the late 20th century. His designs balancing high-t…

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…

Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3

After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet he would begi…

The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness

The Awazu House designed by Hiroshi Hara now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this …

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 …

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

…ch funded by the 2005 Jusoken Research Grant published as Atsuko Tanaka Kiwa Matsushita and Mari Akazawa “A Study on Houses by Women Clients…

Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku

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

Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space

Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht from 1924 has achieved iconic status. I…

Naruto Cultural Center

Virtual Tour

Completed after the architect’s passing this building is one of a cluster of works by Tomoya Masuda in the city of Naruto. Outwardly it exhi…

Chochikukyo

Virtual Tour

Located in the foothills of Mount Tennozan overlooking the headwaters of the Yodogawa River in Yamazaki Kyoto this residence is characterize…

Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

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The gradated purple mosaic exterior tiles are a surprising sight as one approaches this building which is tucked away on a small hill remove…

Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)

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Nestled within a coastal pine grove this building characterized by its four tower-like cores was built at the height of the Metabolist movem…

Summer House in Karuizawa

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Relocated to Karuizawa Taliesin in 1986 this distinctive butterfly-roofed building was originally designed as a summer house and studio base…

ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall / ICU Chapel

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The ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall has continuous windows with frames made of cast aluminum. The completion drawings reveal their intricate …

Aichi University of the Arts Lecture Building

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This building extends 110 meters in the north-south direction establishing a strong axis at the heart of the campus. In the east-west direct…

Fumiko Hayashi Residence

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Built as two separate structures to comply with wartime restrictions that limited new residential constructions to a maximum floor area of 3…

Migishi Atelier

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This early work of Japanese wooden modernist architecture was built for the painter couple Kotaro and Setsuko Migishi. Despite undergoing mu…

The Prince Karuizawa

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This pondside hotel consists of a 126-meter-long arced accommodation wing and a public wing. Each guest room features a large wall-to-wall p…