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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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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp Indian salmon scallops and herring. There are gener…
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama Ehime Prefecture built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior feat…
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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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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
This is a wooden two-story restored photo studio in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The roof on the north side is glass known as a singl…
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wa…
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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
Before Al-Qahirah the city that would become Cairo was created in the 10th century the city of Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this r…
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
A silk scouring plant founded in 1906 in Tsuruoka City Yamagata Prefecture. Silk scouring is achieved by soaking the raw silk in boiling wat…
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Movie “A City of Columns”
movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …
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Izumo Mingeishi Studio/Window of Drying Room
Windows of the drying room at a Japanese paper studio. To make Izumo folk-craft paper the pressed paper is affixed to kiln-heated iron plate…
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A Combining City: Cairo
I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy Cairo seeme…
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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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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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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
Among fruit vinegars made from grapes a balsamic vinegar is an essential seasoning for Italian cuisine. In the city of Modena in northern It…
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
There is a small village in the valleys of Iran known as Masuleh that has stood there for over a thousand years. Its tiered homes are built …
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Boa Nova Restaurant
The windows of a lounge designed by Alvaro Siza in Porto facing a rocky outcropping that looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean covered on all si…
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
…nd Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods.” He is an editor of OASE Architectural Journal The Nordic Journal of Architecture and one of the initia…
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The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran
Outside my bus window a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white shar…
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
Based in London 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including t…
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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame Fukuoka Prefecture for around 300 years. The current buildi…
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Ch.1 The Battle for Realism
The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre “I made a dissolution of silver nitrate much diluted by water in the same proportions as those in…
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Hanok in Jeonju
The window of a house in Jeonju Hanok Village installed beneath the house’s large overhanging eaves. A fixed window is installed on the insi…
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Hidaka Training and Research Center (JRA)/Window of the Horse Track
Located on the premises of the JRAʼs production training and research center an approximately 1500-hectare ranch in the Hidaka region which …
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran, part 2
In Kachalam a village in East Gilan a man agreed to show me around in his car despite it only being our first meeting. As he did I discovere…
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2
I’ve come to realize that meeting with elders is the best way to learn about their village. Walking through a loess land of beautiful green …
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (2)
Repeating myself the phrase “your house” in Chinese the old man and I walked for about 40 minutes through a town located outside of the scen…
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Breeders Stallion Station/Window of Stables
This stud farm was established in 1988 in Hidaka Hokkaido Prefecture. As a stallion breeding facility it can house up to 20 sires. In the st…
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)
Iran was an unknown land to me before I visited it myself. My vague image of it had been of a desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. A…
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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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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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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
…iration from Gunnar Asplundʼs Woodland Chapel (1920) which was built inside the Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården) the show asks the archi…
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Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology” an extensive field work on windows around t…
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…
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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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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which 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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Water Tanks in New York
Photographer Takashi Homma splices compelling shots of windows between his own photos and text. Second article of his “Windows and Photograp…
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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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Part 2: Jo-an
It seems reasonable to assume that chanoyu or the Japanese “Way of Tea” established by Sen no Rikyu was spread and led by sengok…
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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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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…
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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 3)
I walked back to the home in the small village in order to pick up the pants that had been sewn for me overnight. It seemed that there the m…
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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…