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Adobe Windows

… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō  “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…

Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019

…nizers The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT; Tokyo Japan) from November 1 2019 to February 2 2020. Guided by the belief that “wind…

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3

…SABELLA) Micol Forti (Head of Modern and Contemporary Department of Vatican Museum) Participating architects: Norman Foster (UK) Terunobu Fu…

Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

…itects are different types of Modern architects compared with Le Corbusier in France or Mies van der Rohe in the United States. They were re…

Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

… yesterday. I understand that Modernism architecture is founded on our acknowledgement that such equilibrium between various factors constit…

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 …

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…

You Make a Better Window Than a Door

… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō  “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …

In New York: Windows and Looks

…e Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art about why he continues to create window-themed works and about his creation methods. The first wor…

Architectural Ethnography, Part A

… particular the discipline of Modernology that Kon conceived of is literally “Observing and understanding the modern world.” For this exhibi…

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…

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…

Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through

…cs of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is the fact that one can go inside or outside from any point on the premises. The museum is designe…

Part 2: Apertures for View

…swer “The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.” One of my favorite spaces in this museum is this exhibit room. The position of Giacometti’s sculp…

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

…e has worked at The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama Copenhagen University Tohoku University of Art and Design Tokyo University of…

YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window

…ies of the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo; and graphic designer K…

A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3

What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea level was creating shadows by bricks poplar…

A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1

What kind of place is a desert below sea level? Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an autonomous region …

Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change

Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …

Windows and the Invisible Light

…(2012) “The Urban Planning of Modern Japan and the Governing: Analyzing Hiroshi Ikeda’s Urban Planning Theory” Soshioroji vol.58 No.3(2014) …

Maison La Roche

… creates a characteristically Modern architecture. Maison La Roche House /Paris France / Cfb This article is an excerpt from “Window Behavio…

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

…and books include: Sociology: Modernity Self and Reflexivity.  Yuhikaku 2007 “Stopped Clocks” In Journal of law politics and sociology. Vol.…

Movie “The Birth Canal”

…estroyed by fire in the Early Modern Age the style of shrines up until the Middle Ages is well preserved even after reconstruction. Hiyoshi …

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

There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use of windows and glazing. Hernan Diaz Alon…

Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)

We arrive at the town of Wuzhen in northern Zhejiang after a two-hour bus ride from Shanghai. This is an area famous for its beautiful river…

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 …

Talk: Norihito Nakatani × Taro Igarashi at ISAIA

In September 2016 the Window Research Institute exhibited a booth at the International Symposium on Architectural Interchange in Asia (ISAIA…

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 …

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”

…Western-Style Architecture of Modern Japan*(Chikumashobo). Has designed many history museums art museums houses and tea houses. Recent works…

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…

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)”

“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…

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…

fear and pleasure, and as theater

The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Museum is located approximately at the cente…

Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”　

Windowology: Study on Hashirama-Sochi; Equipment In Between ─Transition of Kikugetsutei─ movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei” Kiku…

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…

Thinking about Windows through Photography

…se of photography. Tsukamoto: Modern architecture once attempted to do away with the window. [Ludwig] Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House i…

Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 4: Windows in Italian

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

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…

Vol. 2: Windows in German

…nsters von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag …