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Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran
I took a cheap shared taxi from Zanjan in northwest Iran headed next to the ancient ruins of Takht-e Soleymān. An archeological site centere…
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusi…
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Coffee & Cake
The window of a café in Myeongdong Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on the top and a showcase window with sliding …
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A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1
What kind of place is a desert below sea level? Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an autonomous region …
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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
The Bormida Valley is located in the southern part of Piedmont a region in northwestern Italy located about two hours by car from Genova. Be…
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Goddards
The windows in the saloon of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. A great arch encloses an alcove around the fi…
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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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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…
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
… Cowan Court Cambridge. Their Photography Studio for Juergen Teller was nominated for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Stir…
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Halaszbastya
The window of a café in Budapest Hungary. The Neo-Romanesque window is comprised of a double layer of arches around which tables and chairs …
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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
…wo terms of this combination. Photography leads to the completion of the ideal expressed by Leon Battista Alberti in De Pictura (On Painting…
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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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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…
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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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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated f…
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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…
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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…
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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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Takekobo/Window of the Bamboo Workshop
A bamboo workshop in Uchiko Ehime Prefecture established about 140 years ago. To be able to open its narrow front window as widely as possib…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store
This restaurant in Tomonoura Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glas…
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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition The Window (working title) which will be hosted by the show’s co-organiz…
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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…
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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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Lim Residence
The window’s of Jimmy Lim’s private house in Kuala Lumpur. The windows revolved on a vertical axis and have no glass instead acting as louve…
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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…
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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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Maison La Roche
The windows of Le Corbusier’s Maison la Roche. Inside the gallery a long curved strip window is installed above the curving ramp and as one …
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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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Mido Cafe
The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. Inside tables and chairs are lined up alon…
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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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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…
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Water Tanks in New York
…d article of his “Windows and Photography” series presents water tanks as seen through a window in Manhattan. Included are his latest photos…