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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home …
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
Mario Botta a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland still lives and works in the area practicing architectural design.…
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them posing the question “Isn’t simply existing o…
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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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The Architecture of the Window
In addition to his design practice the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a unique philosophical approach to the fiel…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
The Bauhaus founded in 1919 in Weimar Germany laid the foundations for modern design with its innovative curriculum that embraced the abstra…
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)
Iran was an unknown land to me before I visited it myself. My vague image of it had been of a desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. A…
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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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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Historian Professor at Istituto Universitario d…
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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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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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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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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…
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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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Part 2: Jo-an
It seems reasonable to assume that chanoyu or the Japanese “Way of Tea” established by Sen no Rikyu was spread and led by sengok…
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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 3)
I walked back to the home in the small village in order to pick up the pants that had been sewn for me overnight. It seemed that there the m…
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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive ornaments at a time when rich ornamenta…
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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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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects including houses a church a station square and art museums. He has also fou…
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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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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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What Do You Think of Glass?
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo is the foremost authority on digital fabrication research in Japan. He hosted t…
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
Windowology: Study on Hashirama-Sochi; Equipment In Between ─Transition of Kikugetsutei─ movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei” Kiku…
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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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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…
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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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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…
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Pleasure of Opening Windows
Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…
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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment Paris has kept the skylin…
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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…
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
Contemporary photographer Takashi Homma held a conversation on the theme of “Thinking about Windows through Photography” with his long-time …
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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…
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YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window
…the world in virtual reality. Interior Design The interiors have been …
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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…
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and…
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The Windows of the Teien Art Museum
Sumally is a social networking service that has been created from the concept of making “an ‘encyclopedia’ for everything that exists in the…
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Cats, Fashion, and Windows
Madoka Hattori is the director of ilove.cat an online magazine themed on cats and creators and a freelance editor for honeyee.com and .fatal…
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
The following interview was held with architect Hiroshi Nakamura who has been gaining recognition for the numerous projects that he has desi…
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Concept of a Window
Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the res…