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…

Power window

An electrically operated window controlled by a switch or remote often used for heavy or hard-to-reach windows. Some modern models support s…

Louis Kahn and the Power of Shadow

Does shadow have the power to give form to architecture? The increasing number of transparent buildings and LED installations enforces the i…

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

…’s Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since 2017. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992 after her initia…

CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024

… Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) Masatake Shinohara (Associate Professor Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Su…

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…

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: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report

On September 7 2024 the symposium “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” was held at the AIJ Hall (Architectural Institute of Japan Tokyo). Centere…

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

…he Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and was organized by the Window Research Institute and the Japan Swiss Architectural …

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…

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 …

A Conversation with Silke Langenberg

…s well as to the Institute of Technology in Architecture. Her research focusses on rationalisation of building processes as well as on quest…

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…

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

…titute and Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Tsukamoto Laboratory. In 2022 the museum showcased the exhibition “Windowology – New …

“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…

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…

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…

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

Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951) a prominent Showa era writer established a new residence in Shimoochiai (present-day Nakai) Tokyo in 1941 amid a …

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 …

A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)

…ram at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 200…

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…

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

The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…

Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology

…The Imaginative Force of HVAC Technology Modern HVAC systems that integrate the functions of heating cooling ventilation and dehumidificatio…

A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter

… KADK and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). They have previously taught at the KADK Institute of Architecture and Technology. https…

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…

Alvar AaltoRoom in TKY 2

This is a room in a student dormitory at Aalto University (formerly the Helsinki University of Technology) which is located in a suburb of H…

Alvar Aalto Living room of Mäntylä

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen’s Showcase windows of the Pohjola Insurance Building

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

WindowScape3: Window Workology

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on "Window W…

WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition

…titute and Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory starting in 2007 and also featured an installation themed on windows…

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…

WindowScape: Window Behaviorology

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Window B…

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…

A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)

…ram at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 200…

Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

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…

The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass

When we face the presence of towering walls massive mountains or solid…

Screen Time

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

Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate, Montréal, Canada

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

All of the Above: A Global Future of Energy

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

Arne JacobsenBoll House

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

Arne JacobsenSoholm I

…ation with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.…

Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture [in Japanese]

This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratoryʼs Windowology research themed on “Windows …

Conversation with EMI Architekten

…sor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2020 he taught at the EPF Lausanne in 2015/2016 and together with Elli Mosayebi and Ron Edela…