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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)
It was cold in the morning so high above sea level. But when I walked out to the third-floor terrace at my inn I found it surprisingly warm.…
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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)
Arriving in Shanghai I was surprised at how noisy it was. This is not a critique: Shanghai is the type of place that if you don’t assert you…
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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)
Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown rocky moun…
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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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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)
Many valley-side settlements located 2-3000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in th…
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The Overhanging Village : Kinnaur District, India, Part 1
In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is a region inhabited by people known as the Kinnauris. It is a high-elevation region locat…
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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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Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2
As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet rea…
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fear and pleasure, and as theater
…g presence in Europe from the Middle Ages to modern ages during which various incidents and revolution had been happening in the city. At th…
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Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 1
Siem Reap is one of the cities in Cambodia along with Angkor Wat that is hopping with tourists who come to see the ancient ruins that lie th…
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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2
I descended to the center of Larung Gar where it seemed a lecture or assembly had just ended as priests were entering and leaving the buildi…
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Window Embracing the Hometown
Part 2 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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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 1
I boarded a bus in Chengdu the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan and headed toward eastern Tibet. My destination was the Nying…
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A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2
I came across a group of grape-drying huts on a hill just off the settlement. These huts I had seen the day I arrived in Turpan while taking…
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
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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Vol. 2: Windows in German
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…