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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 window…
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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
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“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 …
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Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva Switzerland in 2003. François Charbonnet one of its co-principals…
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
The Aichi University of the Arts was built to the designs of Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura in 1966. Situated in the forested hills of Nag…
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
When talking about the first generation of post-war Taiwanese architects there are famous individuals such as Wang Da-Hong who studied under…
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Katsura Catholic Church
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Tilt windows
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Awning windows
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Folding windows
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Stacked awning windows
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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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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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
…ed to October 9 2023 CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet The recognition of the manifold meanings an…
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…
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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…
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A Tea House for Schönbrunn has been exhibited at the Japanese Garden in Schönbrunn
“Learning from the Japanese Tea House” a project granted by the Window Research Institute for the fiscal year 2022 has been open…
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century is the large window. That is windows mu…
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
…ed for studying the wildlife (Research Station) to serve both professionals and the public. Although this wasn’t part of the original assign…
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001 Foligno / Brussels / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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002Utrecht / London / Assisi
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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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…
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Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen’s Showcase windows of the Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building located on a corner lot along Aleksanterinkatu in central Helsinki was designed by the national romanticist …
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Windowology archive vol.1 2007-2010
The first book in the series that archived “Windowology” research that Window Research Institute has developed together with researchers and…
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
Houses stand there dotting the farmland. Small huts sit above them in the sky. It’s a bit of a strange sight but one that you’ll…
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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 …
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Transition of Kikugetsutei, Equipment In Between
…nar Edited and Issued: Window Research Institute SEPTEMBER 2016 Softcover 18.2 x 14.8 cm 42 Pages…
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WindowScape3: Window Workology
This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Wi…
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Conversations on Windows and Architecture
…coming architects. The Window Research Institute conducted interviews with the five architects and space designer who participated in the ex…
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WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition
This is the exhibition catalogue for WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition—The Research Behind the Milano Salone Exhibit (Tokyo Midtown Desi…
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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…
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WindowScape 2: Window and Streetscape Genealogy
This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research on “Window and Stre…
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Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture
This book is a compendium of 60 disquisitions that consider windows from various angles. The book was produced based on Windowology research…
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WindowScape: Window Behaviorology
This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Window B…
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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…
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo design…
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Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations
0. Introduction——Why Judd Now? Donald Judd (1928–94) an icon of American Minimalism has many admirers in the architecture world. Presumably …
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron the Basel-based architectural duo founded their firm in 1978 after studying architecture at ETH Zurich. They have sin…