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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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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…
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Mu’s Mansion Hotel
The windows of a hotel in Li Jiang. Three sets of double-casement windows are lined in a row the upper part of which are latticed. The swast…
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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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Nando’s
The window of a restaurant in London. An alcove has been created in the thick wall that forms a part of the structure of the railway above. …
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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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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…
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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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Sashu Chuzosho/Window of the Ironware Foundry
This is a Nanbu tekki (ironware) foundry in Oshu Iwate that mainly produces iron kettles. The various work areas are positioned along the wi…
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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…
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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
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Window…
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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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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use of windows and glazing. Hernan Diaz Alon…
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th 2018) the Windo…
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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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Fujiya/Window of the Souvenir Shop
This is a machiya (townhouse) that was built around 1830 in Narai Nagano. The upper part of the opening facing the street is fitted with shi…
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Tenjin Sanshi Kojo/Window of the Paper Factory
This is a 90-year-old paper factory in Uchiko Ehime that specializes in making Ozu washi (handmade Japanese paper). The paper is made using …
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Iwanoi Shuzo/Window of the Sake Brewery
This is a sake (rice wine) brewery that was established in Morioka Iwate in 1917. Its kura (storehouse) was built later during the second qu…