WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Cinder Windows

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…

The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan

The Bauhaus founded in 1919 in Weimar Germany laid the foundations for modern design with its innovative curriculum that embraced the abstra…

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

…Towards Windows: Windows into Society and Culture” (published by The K…

Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology) has…

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2

The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel freespace indicates freeing space and actions …

Window Research Institute Re-Established as a General Incorporated Foundation

Contributing to the Development of Rich Windows and Architectural Cult…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

movie “THE CORALLUM” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components …

Architectural Ethnography, Part B

To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Window…

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…

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 …

The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse

…ed its peak the Horticultural Society of London and the Royal Botanic Society were established one after the other and its influence encompa…

Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation

…ublished by the Architectural Society of China) one finds many different opinions on the topic. It is fascinating indeed to read through the…

Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”

This serial article “the Joys of Making Windows” by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory of Keio University comprises five parts and intr…

Takashi Homma + Alec Soth Thinking about Windows through Photography

Alec Soth who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world and Takashi Homma who has speculated on the relationships bet…

Sunny Loggia House

Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of n…

YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open

Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th …

The Criminology of Windows

According to sociologist Georg Simmel windows have two fundamental meanings. Firstly they create a unilateral connection between the inside …

YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary Symposium: Windows Represent Civilization and Culture

…Agency and Street Observation Society and for publishing numerous scholarly books has also designed many buildings that inspire surprise and…

High-rise condos and windows—from functionality to scenery—

The Attractiveness of A View Partial Ocean View Ocean View Ocean Front. If upon hearing these words you know what they are referring to it i…

Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change

Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production …

Windows and the Invisible Light

It seems as if an ever-increasing window society took hold in Japan sometime after the Meiji period. The expansion of glass windows to gener…

Design Action, Self-involvement: The World Seen from Making a Window

Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC implements activities aiming for regeneration and reinforcement of a community with a foc…

Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—

We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train on an airplane or in a café are always popular…

Windows make society; Society makes windows

…een “society” and “windows.” “Society makes windows” and at the same time “window makes society.” By associating and circling each other the…

YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window

Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…

Vol. 3: Windows in English

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the con…