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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…
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Vino Santo in Trentino
Drive a car east from Milan go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy Lake Garda. Continue running north along the …
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings has continued to explore the rela…
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale is currently open from Saturday May 26 to Sunday November 25 2018 in Venice Italy. Appointed Directors…
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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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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive ornaments at a time when rich ornamenta…
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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…
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects including houses a church a station square and art museums. He has also fou…
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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 …
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and text. Part 1 of this series delivers five p…
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Pleasure of Opening Windows
Part 3 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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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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Opening the Window and Greeting the World
“Windows are the most important element in architecture” says Michele De Lucchi one of the most renowned architects / designers in Italy. He…
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature such as wood soil and plants as exemplified in hi…
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and…
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
The following interview was held with architect Hiroshi Nakamura who has been gaining recognition for the numerous projects that he has desi…
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Window and Passive Design
…ng Design Manual Publishing; “Nature in Housing” Maruzen Publishing; “Vision of Urban Architecture” Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ); …
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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…