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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…

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 …

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

…House (awarded the 2012 Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers Residential Architecture Gold Prize the 2014 Architectural Inst…

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

…l conference organized by the Society of Mineral Industry (Société de l’industrie minérale) also to mark its centennial. It continued …

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

…ests of the Bethlehem Mission Society a Swiss Catholic order moved to Taitung in 1953. They have a history in contributing to the area’…

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

…220;We met at the Environment Society (Enbairamento no kai). I suppose you could just say we got along” (“Hiroshi Hara Oral Hist…

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…

Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology

… at a meeting of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE; now ASHRAE the American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Con…

Double Vision

…Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York…

Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture

…e themes of “Window History” “Society and Media” “Windows of Architects” “Vehicles” and “Art and Film.”…

Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations

…tional Art in a Dysfunctional Society: Donald Judd’s Furniture (Tokyo: Bunshindo 2015) 78. 16: Judd “Symmetry” in Donald Judd: Architektur 1…

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…

Screen Time

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

The Under- and Overground Built Environments of the Soviet-German Uranium Mining Corporation Wismut

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…

Salt and Land: Shifting Territories of the Salt Production Sites in the Seto Inland Sea

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…

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…

CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023

The Window Research Institute in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) offers the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship—a prog…

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

At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…

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 …

Yosuitei, Thirteen-Window Tearoom

About the Yosuitei Japanese teahouses (chashitsu) are unique buildings with small interiors and many types of windows. The Yosuitei is a tha…

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 …

The Yosuitei13　Bokusekimado

13　 Bokusekimado A bokusekimado (lit. “brushwork window”) also known as a hanaakarimado (lit. “flower lighting window”) or an oribemado (lit…

The Yosuitei11　Shitajimado, 12　Renjimado and Kendonbusuma

11　 Shitajimado The shitajimado (exposed lath window) positioned near the ceiling beside the decorative alcove (tokonoma) is another unique …

The Yosuitei06/07　Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08　Nijiriguchi, 09/10　Shitajimado and Renjimado

06/07　 Shitajimado and Renjimado Another instance where Enshu used his favorite combination of an upper shitajimado (exposed lath window) an…

The Yosuitei03　Furosakimado

03　Furosakimado A furosakimado (lit. “window beyond the brazier”) is a type of window made in the wall behind the brazier used in tea ceremo…

The Yosuitei01/02　Shikishimado

01/02 Shikishimado A shikishimado (lit. “calligraphy board window”) is a type of window composed of a stacked pair of openings that are shif…

The Yosuitei04/05　Shitajimado and Renjimado

04/05　Shitajimado and Renjimado Enshu liked to stack shitajimado (exposed lath window) on top of renjimado (slatted window) and he has done …

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

…n Wajirō Award from the Japan Society of Lifology in 2013 and the Writer’s Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan in 2013 2018 and …

Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)

I left the village of Yeyin and took a trip around the island. Going o…

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

…m up again. Essayist and ROJO Society member Joji Hayashi has determined when and where Japan’s first garasudo that were designed as thin pa…

CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2022

This fellowship program launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is open to accomplished professionals who hold a do…

Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong

After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …

“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo

This exhibition showcases windows as fundamental elements of the Japanese society After being exhibited at Japan House Los Angeles the origi…

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…

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 …

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

…f Windows on Architecture and Society” On Monday December 7 JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will present a webinar discussion featuring Windo…

Rei Naito: Mirror Creation

Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them posing the question “Isn’t simply existing o…

Movie “A City of Columns”

… Nagaya Preservation Research Society began. The Toyosaki Nagaya occupies a corner lot. An alley runs through the center of the lot with th…

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…

Ch.2 Symbolic Realism

…llections: Royal Photographic Society Bath England; Talbot Museum Lacock England; Bensusan Museum of Photography Johannesburg South Africa; …

Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture

Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusi…

The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran

Outside my bus window a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white shar…

Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

Based in London 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including t…

Ch.1 The Battle for Realism

…of his procedure to the Royal Society. Here reference is made to the second version of the same document dated 24 November 1829 and publishe…