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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 …
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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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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.…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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The Window Works at the Existential and Philosophical Level
Windows will never cease to work change and evolve. In the final session of this interview series Yusuke Obuchi speaks with world-renowned a…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
…te Professor of Architectural History Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Chief of the Institute for the History and Theory of A…
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In New York: Windows and Looks
Since traveling to New York in the 1970s artist Masao Gozu has spent over 40 years unveiling work that takes the window as its theme. His Bo…
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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…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
…urant Stalder who teaches the History and Theory of Architectural at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and began ga…
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
Reiser + Umemoto is the architect duo behind the design of the O-14 office tower in Dubai. What ultimately supported the realization of the …
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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 …
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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)
Many valley-side settlements located 2-3000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in th…
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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma who h…
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Windows and Memories
The artist Leandro Erlich became quite a topic of conversation at this past “Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition” with the presentation …
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London and is home to the world’s largest collection of living p…
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The scene of brilliant street
It’s pleasant to take a walk on the city of Paris. The roads which were built in a different reason and in a different era are crossin…
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
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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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with architects / architectural critic working…
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The Overhanging Village : Kinnaur District, India, Part 1
In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is a region inhabited by people known as the Kinnauris. It is a high-elevation region locat…
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What Do You Think of Glass?
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo is the foremost authority on digital fabrication research in Japan. He hosted t…
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
Windowology: Study on Hashirama-Sochi; Equipment In Between ─Transition of Kikugetsutei─ movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei” Kiku…
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Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2
As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet rea…
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Into the Depth of the Window
The end of summer time like the morning air which feels more and more crisp as the days go by is one of those things that remind me of the c…
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“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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fear and pleasure, and as theater
The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Museum is located approximately at the cente…
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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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Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 1
Siem Reap is one of the cities in Cambodia along with Angkor Wat that is hopping with tourists who come to see the ancient ruins that lie th…
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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment Paris has kept the skylin…
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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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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2
I descended to the center of Larung Gar where it seemed a lecture or assembly had just ended as priests were entering and leaving the buildi…
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
One way to use an aperture is to pass physical things through it. In most cases apertures are installed at the border between an inside spac…
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The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 1
I boarded a bus in Chengdu the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan and headed toward eastern Tibet. My destination was the Nying…
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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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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary
Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Participating architects scholars and artists include Taro Igarashi Hi…
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Part 2: Apertures for View
Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources as ventilation and as portals through which people pass. In each of the…
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A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2
I came across a group of grape-drying huts on a hill just off the settlement. These huts I had seen the day I arrived in Turpan while taking…
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Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open
Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th …