-
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…
-
Goddards
The windows in the dining room of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. Bay windows are repeated across the faça…
-
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…
-
Cinder Windows
…t UC Berkeley and Interaction Design at NYUʼs ITP. The translator of Akasegawa Genpeiʼs Hyperart Thomasson creator of the iOS App “Eki…
-
Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 3
I realized something was strange here in the centenarian’s Yaodong. The entrances to Yaodongs are generally shaped into a pointed arc but up…
-
Hill House
The living room bay window of the Hill House designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A sofa and small bookshelf are built in in fr…
-
“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…
-
Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
At the beginning of November I drove a car north from Parma and aimed for Zibello village. As I passed through the central Old City I saw fi…
-
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 …
-
Adobe Windows
…t UC Berkeley and Interaction Design at NYUʼs ITP. The translator of Akasegawa Genpeiʼs Hyperart Thomasson creator of the iOS App “Eki…
-
House for an Art Lover
The dining room windows of the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Curved glass doors are lined along t…
-
America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …
-
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…
-
Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1
A square hole on dry ocherous land. People live inside that hole. I stopped in on the village of Zhangcun in Sanmenxia City Henan. It is loc…
-
“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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Library of Aveiro University
A window in the library of Aveiro University designed by Alvaro Siza. One can look through the large horizontal fixed window in the reading …
-
Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
-
Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (2)
My steps become lighter now that I’ve decided what I’ll look for. This is the beginning of a trip to search for bars of iron. Ten steps out …
-
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orle…
-
Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
…ofessor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University in 2003 2007 and 2016. Visiting Associate Professor at UCLA in 2007 and 2008. Visiti…
-
Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
…ofessor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University in 2003 2007 and 2016. Visiting Associate Professor at UCLA in 2007 and 2008. Visiti…
-
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
Movie “The Birth Canal”
movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…
-
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 …
-
Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)
It was cold in the morning so high above sea level. But when I walked out to the third-floor terrace at my inn I found it surprisingly warm.…
-
Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)
Arriving in Shanghai I was surprised at how noisy it was. This is not a critique: Shanghai is the type of place that if you don’t assert you…
-
Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …
-
Part 3 Shokatei at Katsura Imperial Villa
Members of the Imperial Family were the first to enjoy the luxury of tea a valuable item at that time before the art of the tea ceremony was…
-
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…
-
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses” we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the orig…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)
Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown rocky moun…
-
House for an Art Lover
A window of the restaurant in the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It combines a fixed window with c…
-
You Make a Better Window Than a Door
…t UC Berkeley and Interaction Design at NYUʼs ITP. The translator of Akasegawa Genpeiʼs Hyperart Thomasson creator of the iOS App “Eki…
-
Movie “THE CORALLUM”
…t symbolic space for worship. Designated as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites many worshippers still come to Sefa Utaki today where the…
-
Bevis Bawa’s Garden 1
The window in the loggia part of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa in which an iron grate has been installed. There is no glas…
-
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…
-
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…
-
The Window Works at the Existential and Philosophical Level
…e curator of Architecture and Design at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Kipnis has taught at Harvard University Cooper Union and Columbia Un…
-
Architectural Ethnography, Part B
…he Harvard Graduate School of Design (2003 2016) ETHZ (2005-7) the Royal Danish Academy (2011-12) Rice University (2014-15) Delft University…
-
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…
-
The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
…rom Yale University. He was a Design Studio Professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP and is also an architectural design professor at the Un…
-
Architectural Ethnography, Part A
…he Harvard Graduate School of Design (2003 2016) ETHZ (2005-7) the Royal Danish Academy (2011-12) Rice University (2014-15) Delft University…