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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space

Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht from 1924 has achieved iconic status. I…

Naruto Cultural Center

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Completed after the architect’s passing this building is one of a cluster of works by Tomoya Masuda in the city of Naruto. Outwardly it exhi…

Chochikukyo

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Located in the foothills of Mount Tennozan overlooking the headwaters of the Yodogawa River in Yamazaki Kyoto this residence is characterize…

Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

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The gradated purple mosaic exterior tiles are a surprising sight as one approaches this building which is tucked away on a small hill remove…

Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)

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Nestled within a coastal pine grove this building characterized by its four tower-like cores was built at the height of the Metabolist movem…

Summer House in Karuizawa

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Relocated to Karuizawa Taliesin in 1986 this distinctive butterfly-roofed building was originally designed as a summer house and studio base…

ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall / ICU Chapel

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The ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall has continuous windows with frames made of cast aluminum. The completion drawings reveal their intricate …

Aichi University of the Arts Lecture Building

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This building extends 110 meters in the north-south direction establishing a strong axis at the heart of the campus. In the east-west direct…

Fumiko Hayashi Residence

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Built as two separate structures to comply with wartime restrictions that limited new residential constructions to a maximum floor area of 3…

The Prince Karuizawa

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This pondside hotel consists of a 126-meter-long arced accommodation wing and a public wing. Each guest room features a large wall-to-wall p…

The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.

The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …

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…

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…

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…

Awning windows

Awning windows have a horizontal rotational axis along the top of the frame and are opened by being pushed outwards. The glass surface acts …

Stacked awning windows

Stacked awning windows are composed of a vertical arrangement of sashes that swing up and outwards all at once with the use of a handle. The…

Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has trave…

The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows

The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…

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…

Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology

One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century is the large window. That is windows mu…

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…

KATONO House

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Located on the outskirts of Sapporo this single-story modernist building constructed with weathering steel bricks and other locally sourced …

Double Vision

Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our l…

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 …

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…

Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations

…illy site of Philip Johnson’s Glass House. 9: Donald Judd “21 February 1993” in Donald Judd Writings ed. Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray (New…

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…

Kunié Sugiura – My Window

… Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass can also be considered a large glass window. Another work by Duchamp Fresh Widow a clever play on the ph…

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…

Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura

… like an elusive dream. Slow Glass What if what we see through the glass isn’t actually the world as it truly is? In his work Light of Oth…

The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass

When we face the presence of towering walls massive mountains or solid…

Screen Time

…r Bachelors Even or The Large Glass (1923) interrupts a transparent sheet with opaque objects. An ensemble of flattened multimedia character…

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…

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…

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…

Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?

… realm of nature. Top: “Slow Glass / Tokyo #048” 2006 C-print 90 x 60cm ©Naoya Hatakeyama Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery…

Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect

Linguist Yasunari Ueda has been delving into the origins of words from around the world that mean “window” to understand how the concepts be…

Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)

…plate glass used for windows. Glass was extremely precious so while it indeed was used for artisanal purposes nobody in the world―save for t…

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…

Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places

Fushimi: Today as we begin our new series “Madosoto: Outside Scenery” we would like to discuss the scenery outside the window. First let me …

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…

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 …

Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design

A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2005 (held at The University Art Museum T…

The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change

In October of last year (2021) the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya Nakano Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …