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The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series in which she has used photography to capture the distance between h…
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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary Symposium: Windows Represent Civilization and Culture
Tuesday October 3 2017 @ Spiral Hall (Minato-ku Tokyo) A 9-hour academic symposium centered on windows Featuring 27 participants from around…
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
Fleeting and weak though it is light in Scandinavia has a mysterious kind of allure to it. Could it not be that the peoples of Scandinavia w…
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Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change
Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train on an airplane or in a café are always popular…
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Windows make society; Society makes windows
Is the Happy Era-of-the-Window Over? Which do you prefer: a society with windows or a society without windows? If asked I imagine the majori…
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YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window
Thursday September 28 – Monday October 9 2017 (public holiday) @ Spira…
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Window Bookcase (2)
This is the second entry on the Window Bookcase Project. We at the Window Research Institute asked o+h the architectural practice of Maki On…
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Supported the Japan Pavilion, The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016
YKK AP Window Research Institute had supported the Japan Pavilion the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016…
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and…
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…
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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto who has designed many internationally recognized projects and continues to propose…
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the con…