WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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…

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…

Part 5: To China International Window City!

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it…

Garlic Window in Vessalico village

Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…

Architectural Ethnography, Part A

To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Windo…

Tenjin Sanshi Kojo/Window of the Paper Factory

This is a 90-year-old paper factory in Uchiko Ehime that specializes in making Ozu washi (handmade Japanese paper). The paper is made using …

Windows and Memories

The artist Leandro Erlich became quite a topic of conversation at this past “Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition” with the presentation …

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…

IIM cafeteria

A window in the cafeteria of the Indian Institute of Management designed in Ahmedabad by Louis Kahn. The large brick arch creates a buffer l…

Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through

…o go in and out through them. Glass with its translucence plays a big role in these cases by visually erasing the border between inside and …

Part 2: Apertures for View

…n chairs and faced the cross. Glass was laid between a comfortable human scale indoor space and the cross which was positioned at just the r…

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open

Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th …

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…

Tugendhat House

The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in the space created by two layers of glass w…

Casa Barragan

The window looking onto the inner garden of Louis Barragan’s house is divided into a large fixed window and a lattice window. The bottom lef…

Casa Priet Lopez

A window looking onto the garden of a house built by Louis Barragan in the wealthy residential neighborhood of San Angel in Mexico City. Whi…

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 …

Coffee & Cake

The window of a café in Myeongdong Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on the top and a showcase window with sliding …

Hill House

The living room bay window of the Hill House designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A sofa and small bookshelf are built in in fr…

House for an Art Lover

The dining room windows of the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Curved glass doors are lined along t…

America (2)

French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orle…

Lim Residence

The window’s of Jimmy Lim’s private house in Kuala Lumpur. The windows revolved on a vertical axis and have no glass instead acting as louve…

Windows and the Invisible Light

…des: “Home Hygiene and Window Glass: On “Brightness” in the Discourse about the House in 1920s – 30s Japan” Soshioroji vol…

Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—

… do windows-as-media produce? Glass windows are transparent and so we tend to believe that we see the same things with or without them. The …

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…

Bevis Bawa’s Garden 1

The window in the loggia part of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa in which an iron grate has been installed. There is no glas…

The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space

…g about that. Is this design? Glass is used to symbolize transparency order regularity whatever right?  What if we make glass to be dirty im…

Architectural Intention behind Technology

Reiser + Umemoto is the architect duo behind the design of the O-14 office tower in Dubai. What ultimately supported the realization of the …

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 …

“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”

Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with architects / architectural critic working…

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…

Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”

Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature such as wood soil and plants as exemplified in hi…

What Do You Think of Glass?

… examination or redefinition. Glass is fascinating because it has a certain amount of strength but it makes everything go away. It’s transpa…

Thinking about Windows through Photography

Alec Soth who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world and Takashi Homma who has speculated on the relationships bet…

The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse

…ithin its own interior space. Glasshouses became an exotic “paradise” and the human eye was always turned towards the inside. This funny rel…

The scene of brilliant street

It’s pleasant to take a walk on the city of Paris. The roads which were built in a different reason and in a　different era are crossin…

Steel House

“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…

Exhibition “Present State(ment)”

… there is I thought of glass. Glass is a typical product in Murano islands. Also it is a traditional material combining unique industry hist…

House at Komazawa Park

“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…

Boundary Window

“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…

Sunny Loggia House

Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of n…

Restaurant in Ha Noi

The window of a restaurant in Ha Noi. Three surfaces are made of glass with various parts that open and close. One can enjoy the view of the…

Into the Depth of the Window

The end of summer time like the morning air which feels more and more crisp as the days go by is one of those things that remind me of the c…

Tracing the urban brickscape

As surprising as it may seem I feel that the true quality of a city such as London lies in its “disorderliness”. Within the city countless e…

Lou Kao Mansion

A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red blue and white stained glass; above them i…

Zhenchenglou

Windows of the Hakka walled villages a traditional Chinese circular residential form. The entrance is fitted with a waist-high door above wh…

Colonial Style House

The windows on the second floor of a Colonial Style house in Bentota. The gabled bay window includes glass windows that pivot on a central v…

Lantern Shop in Hoi An

The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden louvered double casement windows are fitted not with glass but with built-in folding cou…