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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) where it will be on view from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. See …
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
The following morning when I arrived at Classy’s house at the scheduled time we met with another man who seemed to be about the same age as …
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2
After driving for about 7 minutes in Classy’s car the windshield of which had a crack in it we arrived at a wetland area that was completely…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) where it will be on view from July 11 to September 27 2020 October 13 …
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan, Part 1
I headed further west from Turpan by train to arrive at a city in the western reaches of China called Kashgar. From there I climbed a mounta…
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A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3
What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea level was creating shadows by bricks poplar…
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017 Assisi / Rome / Tivoli / Helensburgh
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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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…
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A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1
What kind of place is a desert below sea level? Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an autonomous region …
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016 Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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015 Assisi / Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch
An artist contemplates a blank canvas or a white piece of paper in the studio or at a table perhaps waiting for a memory or some inspiration…
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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…
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014 London / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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013 London / Assisi
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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012 London / London / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 3
I realized something was strange here in the centenarian’s Yaodong. The entrances to Yaodongs are generally shaped into a pointed arc but up…
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
…credited to a singular name. Contemporary Tokyo and Matta-Clark The exhibition flier has the tag line: “He was everyone’s idol.” Miwa: Dra…
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2
I’ve come to realize that meeting with elders is the best way to learn about their village. Walking through a loess land of beautiful green …
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (2)
Repeating myself the phrase “your house” in Chinese the old man and I walked for about 40 minutes through a town located outside of the scen…
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Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1
A square hole on dry ocherous land. People live inside that hole. I stopped in on the village of Zhangcun in Sanmenxia City Henan. It is loc…
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010 Paris / Rome / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…
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009 Brussels / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019
…e Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) in July 2020. ■ Exhibition Outline [Title] The Window (working title)…
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
…col Forti (Head of Modern and Contemporary Department of Vatican Museum) Participating architects: Norman Foster (UK) Terunobu Fujimori (Jap…
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Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology” an extensive field work on windows around t…
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008 Paris / Paris / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) has…
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2
The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel freespace indicates freeing space and actions …
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007 Assisi / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale is currently open from Saturday May 26 to Sunday November 25 2018 in Venice Italy. Appointed Directors…
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America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses” we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the orig…
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005 Paris / Paris / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
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Water Tanks in New York
Photographer Takashi Homma splices compelling shots of windows between his own photos and text. Second article of his “Windows and Photograp…
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
…ki Yū (Curator Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery) Assistant Curator: Simona Ferarri Tamotsu Ito Andreas Kalpakci Curation Team: ETHZ S…
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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use of windows and glazing. Hernan Diaz Alon…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
…ki Yū (Curator Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery) Assistant Curator: Simona Ferarri Tamotsu Ito Andreas Kalpakci Curation Team: ETHZ S…
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
…de the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa; and the Louvre-Lens a satellite facility of the Musée du Louvre. He has come to be …
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the …
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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma who h…
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Windows and Memories
… Pool (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa) and Tunnel (Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art) and his works with …
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London and is home to the world’s largest collection of living p…
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…