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Restaurant in Ha Noi
The window of a restaurant in Ha Noi. Three surfaces are made of glass with various parts that open and close. One can enjoy the view of the…
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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…
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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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IIM cafeteria
A window in the cafeteria of the Indian Institute of Management designed in Ahmedabad by Louis Kahn. The large brick arch creates a buffer l…
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
…o go in and out through them. Glass with its translucence plays a big role in these cases by visually erasing the border between inside and …
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
Contemporary photographer Takashi Homma held a conversation on the theme of “Thinking about Windows through Photography” with his long-time …
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Part 2: Apertures for View
…n chairs and faced the cross. Glass was laid between a comfortable human scale indoor space and the cross which was positioned at just the r…
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Lou Kao Mansion
A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red blue and white stained glass; above them i…
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
Fleeting and weak though it is light in Scandinavia has a mysterious kind of allure to it. Could it not be that the peoples of Scandinavia w…
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Tugendhat House
The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in the space created by two layers of glass w…
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Zhenchenglou
Windows of the Hakka walled villages a traditional Chinese circular residential form. The entrance is fitted with a waist-high door above wh…
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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…
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
… do windows-as-media produce? Glass windows are transparent and so we tend to believe that we see the same things with or without them. The …
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Colonial Style House
The windows on the second floor of a Colonial Style house in Bentota. The gabled bay window includes glass windows that pivot on a central v…
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Lantern Shop in Hoi An
The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden louvered double casement windows are fitted not with glass but with built-in folding cou…
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Steel House
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…
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House at Komazawa Park
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
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: The Gathered Gates and Windows
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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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…
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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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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…