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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…
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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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Part 2: Apertures for View
Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources as ventilation and as portals through which people pass. In each of the…
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The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series in which she has used photography to capture the distance between h…
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Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms
… languages. 2. The Polysemous Nature of Words for “Window” In modern J…
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…