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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 …

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran

The bus that headed from northern to southern Iran passed once more through alien landscapes created by the desert. It’s as if one mus…

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…

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…

Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture

…tural Positions: Architecture Modernity and the Public Sphere” that was published in 2007? It gives interesting insights into how architectu…

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 …

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…

Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

… in 2017. Books include Never Modern produced in collaboration with Irénée Scalbert (Park Books 2014) and a monograph by El Croquis was publ…

Cinder Windows

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

Adobe Windows

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

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…

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

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

Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (2)

My steps become lighter now that I’ve decided what I’ll look for. This is the beginning of a trip to search for bars of iron. Ten steps out …

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…

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 …

Maison La Roche

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

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…

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 …

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…

Architectural Ethnography, Part A

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

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 …

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…

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…

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…

Architecture in Photography and Windows

Iwan Baan is a photographer whose work has taken him around the world from Asia to Africa. Last year he participated in a panel discussion o…

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…

Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”　

Kikugetsutei is a teahouse located in the early modern-age daimyo (feudal lord) garden “Ritsurin Garden” in Takamatsu city Kagaw…

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…

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…

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…