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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron the Basel-based architectural duo founded their firm in 1978 after studying architecture at ETH Zurich. They have sin…
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Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård
The apartment building in Copenhagen. Due to restrictions placed on the use of steel during World War II a steel lintel could not be used. K…
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world but when windows appear in photographs they are…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…
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Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura
Kokei and Jokei: Sights we see scenes we feel Whenever transparent glass is installed into buildings or trains or cars a boundary is establi…
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
… Architecture of Sacred Space Researched by AA Diploma Unit 14 Archite…
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums stations billboards buildings refrigerators thermostats on our wrists and in our hands. As a physical inter…
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protr…
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three windows which straddle the border betwe…
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Arne JacobsenSoholm I
The Soholm Row Houses are built at Bellevue Beach and Jacobsen himself purchased one of the Soholm I units for use making the interior a pla…
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Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture
This book presents findings from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Yos…
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus o…
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…
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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
I gaze through the window. The scenery outside shines brightly while in a state of movement and I am drawn with fascination to all that unfo…
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
Linguist Yasunari Ueda has been delving into the origins of words from around the world that mean “window” to understand how the concepts be…
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
…l mutual trips between Window Research Institute (WRI) and VWCO and the beginning of an inspiring collaboration. “The entire experience was …
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
… September 25 2022. CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet The recognition of the manifold meanings an…
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on th…
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Former Kyoto Prefectural Tea House/Viewing window for Uji tea
A tea ceremony hall in Uji City Kyoto Prefecture. The building was established for the Kyoto Prefecture Tea Industry Chamber which is curren…
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Online seminar“Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet”
On Wednesday August 24 Canadian Center for Architecture and Window Research Institute will present a seminar featuring 3 fellows from CCA-WR…
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico
…tectural historian and former Research Fellow at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe New Mexico. Please tell me about how you cam…
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Sapporo Agricultural College Farm No. 2/Window for Corn Storage
A grain store built in 1876 on the campus of Hokkaido University in Sapporo City Hokkaido. Under the large-scale agricultural management pla…
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Osaki lacquerware shop/Lacquer and Clerestory
The earthen space in the Osaki lacquerware shop. The quality of lacquerware is verified by steaming the finished lacquerware in a pot placed…
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at Japan House Los Angeles
The Window Research Institute has held an online exhibition titled Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angele…
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Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)
The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations …
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Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places
Fushimi: Today as we begin our new series “Madosoto: Outside Scenery” we would like to discuss the scenery outside the window. First let me …
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a living environment comfortable. Yet there …
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Yosuitei, Thirteen-Window Tearoom
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Windowology archive vol.3 2014-2016
The third book in the series that archived “Windowology” research that Window Research Institute has developed together with researchers and…
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Windowology archive vol.2 2011-2013
The second book in the series that archived “Windowology” research that Window Research Institute has developed together with researchers an…
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Windowology: Selected Research
…owology” research that Window Research Institute has developed together with researchers and laboratories. Window Research Institute distrib…
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Fifty stories around Window and Architecture
… numerous studies with Window Research Institute. Fifty stories around Window and Architecture Edited by Ikaga Toshiharu Taro Igarashi Tsuy…
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Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows
Takashi Homma first encountered the work of Le Corbusier and Pierre Je…
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Yoshitika Utida: Window and Architecture Seminars
Yoshitika Utida and Window Research Institute held a series of lectures in which he considered architecture through windows with young archi…
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Window Research Institute: New Website Launched
The Window Research Institute has renovated its website on March 31st 2022. With this renovation we overhauled the design and layout of the …
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Terunobu Fujimori| 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and …
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The Yosuitei13 Bokusekimado
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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The Yosuitei11 Shitajimado, 12 Renjimado and Kendonbusuma
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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The Yosuitei06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08 Nijiriguchi, 09/10 Shitajimado and Renjimado
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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The Yosuitei03 Furosakimado
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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The Yosuitei01/02 Shikishimado
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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The Yosuitei04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado
…r Yoh Komiyama and the Window Research Institute with videography by Tomohiro Okazaki. Window Products Inside Windows Products Inside is a …
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Shikidō/Frosted Glass Window for Study
This place is the birthplace of Shiki Masaoka where he lived until the age of 17 years reproduced in Matsuyama Ehime Prefecture. Shiki studi…
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date they have be…
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Online Event “Hashirama Sōchi: Richness of Space in Japanese Architecture – Talk by Nakatani Norihito” Presented by Japan House London
On Tuesday February 22 Japan House London will present an online event featuring Nakatani Norihito. Date Tuesday 22 February 2022 Time 12:…
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
A greenhouse for growing Muscat in Tsutaka Kita Ward Okayama Prefecture. For the cultivation of Muscat a temperature of approximately 20 °C …