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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
This is a wooden two-story restored photo studio in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The roof on the north side is glass known as a singl…
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wa…
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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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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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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
The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) led by architect Momoyo Kaijima condu…
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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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Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander
Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to brea…
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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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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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Ch.2 Symbolic Realism
The pioneers (2) Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reas…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame Fukuoka Prefecture for around 300 years. The current buildi…
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Hidaka Training and Research Center (JRA)/Window of the Horse Track
Located on the premises of the JRAʼs production training and research center an approximately 1500-hectare ranch in the Hidaka region which …
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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…
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Takekobo/Window of the Bamboo Workshop
A bamboo workshop in Uchiko Ehime Prefecture established about 140 years ago. To be able to open its narrow front window as widely as possib…
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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…
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Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store
This restaurant in Tomonoura Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glas…
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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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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
…ntation of Hiroshi Sugimotoʼs Glass Tea House Mondrian in its front garden in 2014 the island is becoming a familiar destination for Biennal…
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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…
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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…
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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 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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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
The artist Leandro Erlich became quite a topic of conversation at this past “Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition” with the presentation …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…