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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…
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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 …
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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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An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory
…e collection of the Museum of Modern Art and at the Morgan Library & Museum. His artistic output is multidisciplinary. He has made sound…
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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…
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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…
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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
…rieur de l’eau (The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura Kanagawa 2009); the emotion of belief (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum 2014); émotions…
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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…
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
…the quintessential painter of Modern American life Edward Hopper looked in from his roving position on the outside of New York’s apart…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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/ …
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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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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) –…
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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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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…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) held an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Cinder Windows
… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated f…
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
…eld at The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto in 2018. Jin Motohashi an assistant curator at the museum and one of the exhibition’s organiz…
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Adobe Windows
… the observations of Japanese Modernologists like Kon Wajirō “Street Observation” involves the meticulous examination and documentation of …
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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…
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
… yesterday. I understand that Modernism architecture is founded on our acknowledgement that such equilibrium between various factors constit…
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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 …
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Maison La Roche
… creates a characteristically Modern architecture. Maison La Roche House /Paris France / Cfb This article is an excerpt from “Window Behavio…
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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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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…
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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 …
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …
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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…