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No.0: Six Topics for Makoto Ueda’s Interpretation of the Window Space
To kick off the series “Vague Focal Space at the Window” I interviewed Makoto Ueda the former Editor in Chief of Toshi Jutaku (Urban Housing…
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a living environment comfortable. Yet there …
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
… 2005 (held at The University Art Museum Tokyo University of the Arts) YOSHIMURA was featured in NHK’s art program. His various works were i…
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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…
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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 …
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The Yosuitei13 Bokusekimado
13 Bokusekimado A bokusekimado (lit. “brushwork window”) also known as a hanaakarimado (lit. “flower lighting window”) or an oribemado (lit…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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Shikidō/Frosted Glass Window for Study
This place is the birthplace of Shiki Masaoka where he lived until the age of 17 years reproduced in Matsuyama Ehime Prefecture. Shiki studi…
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
…An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) R…
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
A greenhouse for growing Muscat in Tsutaka Kita Ward Okayama Prefecture. For the cultivation of Muscat a temperature of approximately 20 °C …
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Kadomi Family Residence/Watchtower Window
This shipping agency in Monzen-machi Kuroshima-machi Wajima City Ishikawa Prefecture got burned down in a large fire in 1871 and was rebuilt…
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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…
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Terunobu Fujimori|001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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Kaisen Donya Shipping Agency, Takita Family Residence/Window and the closet
This is the former residence of the Takita family former shipping agents in Tokoname City Aichi Prefecture. The depth of the thick section o…
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people” people belonging to a variety of ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While …
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Kosho Shogakudo/Window for Books
The shopfront of this secondhand bookstore in Nakagyo Ward Kyoto features built-in bookcases facing the street by the entrance overflowing w…
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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made …
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Hatcho Miso Kakukyu/Window of Miso Storehouse
This Hatcho Miso storehouse (okura) in Okazaki City Aichi Prefecture was built in 1907 and is now a museum. The second floor was a site of s…
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in …
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House of Sato Mataroku/Window for inner warehouses
A mercantile house in Masuda Yokote City Akita Prefecture with a history of around 350 years. It has been designated as an important nationa…
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Fujiwara Bee Farm/Window for Bees
A bee farm founded in 1901 in Morioka City Iwate Prefecture. Originally beehives were left exposed to the weather outside but in severely co…
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
… his father Victor who led an Art Nouveau school in Nancy Prouvé took an apprenticeship with Émile Robert and began his creative career as a…
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Sh…
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …
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Restored Salt Pan Kamaya/Thatched Roof with Ventilation Window
This is the restored saltworks in the Ako City Marine Science Museum at the Hyogo Prefecture. Ako which is blessed with the calm climate of …
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
…An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) R…
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The trains enter and leave from the double-ope…
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Mineral Workshop/Polycarbonate Roofing for the Salt Production
Salt workshop in Murakami City Niigata Prefecture. Seawater is suctioned via pump from the nearby Japan Sea to the flat tank outside the bui…
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The Storage Shed/Window of the Traditional Herring Fishing in Hokkaido
A flat wooden fishing boat shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The storage shed is a facility used to temporarily store the obtained…
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
I could see land the color of milk out of the airplane window. My journey had started in China moving ever westward from there and I was now…
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Today/Yesterday #2
This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
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Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window
This is a wooden two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was restored in 1960. The modern-day post off…
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Nasu Shochu Brewery/Shochu, Rice Fields and the Window
A brewery founded in 1917 in Kuma-gun Kumamoto Prefecture. Since its founding it has continued to brew the shochu “Kuma-no-Izumi” by hand su…
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
…furt and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She participated in Documenta 11 in 2002 and represented Germany in the German Pavilion at th…
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
…An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) R…
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp Indian salmon scallops and herring. There are gener…
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama Ehime Prefecture built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior feat…
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Shizuka Yokomizo|Today/Yesterday #1
… Renowned as a pioneer in the Arts and Crafts Movement he made major contributions to the development of vernacular architecture in Scotland…
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Shinko Clock Shop/Window on the Workbench
Clock store on the island of Osaki Shimojima in Kure Hiroshima Prefecture operating since the Meiji period. The main building on the first f…
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
After walking around Cairo for a few days I took a flight to Aswan Egypt’s southernmost city. From there I followed the Nile River nor…
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants with a …
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Dreh-Kipp Windows
Windows with two opening and closing functions one of which involves rotating inwards horizontally (“collapsing inwards”) while the other op…
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An Alien Landscape from the Window
Clear air born from the trees the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprout from the earth and flowers floating in a…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
…An associate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) R…