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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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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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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…evenly every 280 millimeters. Designed with functionality as the prior…
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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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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
…Yokoo S. Yamana Y. Iwaoka T.: Design Feature of “Maison du Peuple de Clichy” Designed by E. Beaudouin M. Lods J. Prouvé AIJ Journal of Techn…
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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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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
…rich since 1978. Professor of Design at ETH Zurich from 2003 to 2015. Momoyo Kaijima Momoyo Kaijima has served as Professor of Architectura…
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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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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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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
Candida Höfer is one of Germany’s leading contemporary photographers. She studied under master photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher and is t…
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
…iate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) Rice Univ…
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Shizuka Yokomizo|Today/Yesterday #1
Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
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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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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
… difficulty with the clients. Designing houses has been a precious experience truly an apprenticeship. As you mentioned before it has been a…
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Horizontal Outward Projecting Window
In this sort of window the upper frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves up or down along a groove or rail attached to the top and bo…
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Suzuki Morihisa Studio/Window of the Ironware Studio
Nanbu Ironware studio in Morioka Iwate Prefecture founded in 1625. The current building dates back to 1885 the year after a large fire broke…
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Life Seeps Through Frosted Glass
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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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
Before Al-Qahirah the city that would become Cairo was created in the 10th century the city of Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this r…
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Nature Behind a Curtain Wall
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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Movie “A City of Columns”
…to Nakatani and Architectural Design Seminar Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Osaka City University Kindai Osaka ni okeru…
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Vertical Outward Projecting Window
In this sort of window either the left or right frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves to the left or right along a groove or rail a…
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A Combining City: Cairo
I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy Cairo seeme…
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
…iate professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2009 she has also taught at Harvard GSD (2003 2016) Rice Univ…
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Power Window
Windows that open and close mainly through electric power using a switch or remote control to operate them are called power windows. As they…
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High Altitude Window
Installed in a high place such as the top of a stairwell this sort of window facilitates “gravitational ventilation” by making use of how wa…
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Sensing Mother Earth: Petra, Jordan
During my trip I saw many ruins in many countries. While these sites stood distant from our modern lives the people who created them must no…
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Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran
I experienced no small amount of culture shock in Iran as it was the first Islamic country I visited. Many of the people I passed on the str…
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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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Casement Window
Casement windows open by rotating horizontally to the left and right from the center taking either the left or right edge as an axis. Some o…
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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
Among fruit vinegars made from grapes a balsamic vinegar is an essential seasoning for Italian cuisine. In the city of Modena in northern It…
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
There is a small village in the valleys of Iran known as Masuleh that has stood there for over a thousand years. Its tiered homes are built …
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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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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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Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran
The bus that headed from northern to southern Iran passed once more through alien landscapes created by the desert. It’s as if one mus…
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Boa Nova Restaurant
The windows of a lounge designed by Alvaro Siza in Porto facing a rocky outcropping that looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean covered on all si…
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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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Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran
I took a cheap shared taxi from Zanjan in northwest Iran headed next to the ancient ruins of Takht-e Soleymān. An archeological site centere…
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
…e History and Theory of Urban Design at ETHZ Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Delft and author of several books incl…
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Sash Window
A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels vertically over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding…
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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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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
The Bormida Valley is located in the southern part of Piedmont a region in northwestern Italy located about two hours by car from Genova. Be…
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Goddards
The windows in the saloon of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. A great arch encloses an alcove around the fi…
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Double Sliding Window
A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels horizontally over two or more grooves or rails is called a double slidi…
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The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran
Outside my bus window a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white shar…