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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)

…ts worldwide such as the Tate Modern Prada Aoyama Epicenter and M+. Their accolades include the Pritzker Prize (2001) and RIBA Royal Gold Me…
Kunié Sugiura – My Window

…pe and freedom. The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were packed with artworks I had seen before in textb…
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

Kokei and Jokei: Sights we see scenes we feel Whenever transparent glass is installed into buildings or trains or cars a boundary is establi…
The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass

…in Architecture. Religion and Modern Architecture as a History of Idea…
Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate, Montréal, Canada

…udy in the Economic Height of Modern Office Buildings found that taller buildings maximized returns showing that land values directly influe…
The Under- and Overground Built Environments of the Soviet-German Uranium Mining Corporation Wismut

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
All of the Above: A Global Future of Energy

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
Working Skill Sets

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
Salt and Land: Shifting Territories of the Salt Production Sites in the Seto Inland Sea

The Window Research Institute partners with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to offer the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship. In this article w…
Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous

Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?

… Photography at the Museum of Modern Art New York had organized an exhibition of notable photographic works in the United States spanning th…
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)

In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

…ne of her homes the Museum of Modern Art or the home of a collector. There are accounts of her hanging art at both Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu t…
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 …
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…
Windowology: Selected Research

…tly by the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and Window Research Institute. Vol.1 The History of Windows Vol.2 Linguistics of the Window…
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 …
Window Research Institute: New Website Launched

…ew content featuring Japanese Modern Architecture built between the pre-war times and the 1970s and which is still lived in today. We will e…
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 …
A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein

Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date they have be…
Online Event “Hashirama Sōchi: Richness of Space in Japanese Architecture – Talk by Nakatani Norihito” Presented by Japan House London

On Tuesday February 22 Japan House London will present an online event featuring Nakatani Norihito. Date Tuesday 22 February 2022 Time 12:…
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 …
Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2

…m as an “artisan/engineer” in Modern Architecture.2 However he may be…
Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details

Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…
Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window

This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …
A Conversation with Peter Märkli

Peter Märkli one of Switzerland’s leading architects started his career after meeting his mentor the architect Rudolf Olgiati. In 1978 he es…
Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel

…d solar energy water heaters. Modern infrastructure relentlessly demanded space even in this Old City that consists of historic structures. …
Today/Yesterday #2

This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window

This is a wooden two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was restored in 1960. The modern-day post off…
From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography

…unsthalle Bern the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She participated in Documenta 11 in 2002 …
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 …
An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory

Here is a graphic novel spanning more than 300 pages that allows readers to experience millions of years of time while observing a single co…
Shizuka Yokomizo｜Today/Yesterday #1

Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society”

…ontinuation of the California Modernist ethos infused with reinterpretations of traditional Japanese elements. Moderator | Fiona Wilson Asi…
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.…
Rei Naito: Mirror Creation

…rieur de l’eau (The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura Kanagawa 2009); the emotion of belief (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum 2014); émotions…
Japan House Los Angeles Unveils New Exhibition: “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan”

Exhibition Marks First for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles Since Pandemic Closure; Featuring Windows & Their Unique Perspectives on the World Th…
The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

…n; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. Read more Please note that there may be furt…
The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art

…n; and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. The show sets out to convey the inexhaustibl…
Movie “A City of Columns”

…s. Standardized Spaces Early Modern Osaka’s Rational Construction System Now let us take a look at the history of Osaka nagaya. As the urba…
A Combining City: Cairo

…w into the Mediterranean sea. Modern-day Cairo was originally the city of al-Qāhirah built by the 10th century Fatimid Caliphate and it exis…
Exhibition delays – The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MIMOCA

…dation The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo; The Window Research Institute Academic Adviser: Igarashi Taro (Professor Tohoku University/ …
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…
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…
Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

…s from a book – African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana Senegal Côte D’ivoire Kenya Zambia (Park Book) –…
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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