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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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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 …
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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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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
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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Katsura Catholic Church
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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Tilt windows
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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Awning windows
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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Folding windows
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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Stacked awning windows
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…
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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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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 Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
On the occasion of the “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan” currently being held in Copenhagen we conducted a serie…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård
The apartment building in Copenhagen. Due to restrictions placed on the use of steel during World War II a steel lintel could not be used. K…
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world but when windows appear in photographs they are…
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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…
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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…
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
When we face the presence of towering walls massive mountains or solid…
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protr…
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three windows which straddle the border betwe…
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Arne JacobsenSoholm I
The Soholm Row Houses are built at Bellevue Beach and Jacobsen himself purchased one of the Soholm I units for use making the interior a pla…
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus o…
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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…
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
I gaze through the window. The scenery outside shines brightly while in a state of movement and I am drawn with fascination to all that unfo…
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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 …
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on th…
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Former Kyoto Prefectural Tea House/Viewing window for Uji tea
A tea ceremony hall in Uji City Kyoto Prefecture. The building was established for the Kyoto Prefecture Tea Industry Chamber which is curren…
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Sapporo Agricultural College Farm No. 2/Window for Corn Storage
A grain store built in 1876 on the campus of Hokkaido University in Sapporo City Hokkaido. Under the large-scale agricultural management pla…
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Osaki lacquerware shop/Lacquer and Clerestory
The earthen space in the Osaki lacquerware shop. The quality of lacquerware is verified by steaming the finished lacquerware in a pot placed…
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Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)
The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations …
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Yosuitei, Thirteen-Window Tearoom
…designer Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Insid…