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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan from 1 December 2021 unt…
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Kosho Shogakudo/Window for Books
The shopfront of this secondhand bookstore in Nakagyo Ward Kyoto features built-in bookcases facing the street by the entrance overflowing w…
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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made …
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2022
…nd cultural issues. cca.qc.ca Window Research Institute The Window Research Institute (WRI) advances and implements research and cultural p…
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Hatcho Miso Kakukyu/Window of Miso Storehouse
This Hatcho Miso storehouse (okura) in Okazaki City Aichi Prefecture was built in 1907 and is now a museum. The second floor was a site of s…
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
…is trip are serialized on the Window Research Institute website as “Tr…
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House of Sato Mataroku/Window for inner warehouses
A mercantile house in Masuda Yokote City Akita Prefecture with a history of around 350 years. It has been designated as an important nationa…
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Fujiwara Bee Farm/Window for Bees
A bee farm founded in 1901 in Morioka City Iwate Prefecture. Originally beehives were left exposed to the weather outside but in severely co…
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“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo
After being exhibited at Japan House Los Angeles The Window Research Institute held the original exhibition “WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas …
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive…
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Sh…
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …
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“WINDOWOLOGY: Estudo de janelas no Japão” at Japan House São Paulo
… exhibit was conceived by the Window Research Institute a Japanese institution that researches this element which at first sight may seem to…
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Restored Salt Pan Kamaya/Thatched Roof with Ventilation Window
This is the restored saltworks in the Ako City Marine Science Museum at the Hyogo Prefecture. Ako which is blessed with the calm climate of …
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Supported an Exhibition “Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements” at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia
Window Research Institute supported an exhibition “Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements” at the 17th International Architecture …
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
Peter Märkli one of Switzerland’s leading architects started his career after meeting his mentor the architect Rudolf Olgiati. In 1978 he es…
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The trains enter and leave from the double-ope…
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Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery …
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Mineral Workshop/Polycarbonate Roofing for the Salt Production
Salt workshop in Murakami City Niigata Prefecture. Seawater is suctioned via pump from the nearby Japan Sea to the flat tank outside the bui…
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The Storage Shed/Window of the Traditional Herring Fishing in Hokkaido
A flat wooden fishing boat shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The storage shed is a facility used to temporarily store the obtained…
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
I could see land the color of milk out of the airplane window. My journey had started in China moving ever westward from there and I was now…
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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
Natsume Soseki composed Inside Glass Doors at the end of his life. From inside his room the “I” of these essays watches the days go by medit…
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Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window
This is a wooden two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was restored in 1960. The modern-day post off…
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Nasu Shochu Brewery/Shochu, Rice Fields and the Window
A brewery founded in 1917 in Kuma-gun Kumamoto Prefecture. Since its founding it has continued to brew the shochu “Kuma-no-Izumi” by hand su…
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Takashi Homma on photographing the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture
…tecture which the CCA and the Window Research Institute originally published in the form of a book in 2019. Homma spoke to us and the CCA ab…
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
…Homma: Any questions from the Window Research Institute? Window Research Institute: I believe you have been photographing quite a lot of arc…
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home …
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An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory
Here is a graphic novel spanning more than 300 pages that allows readers to experience millions of years of time while observing a single co…
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp Indian salmon scallops and herring. There are gener…
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Takashi Homma Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows has been reprinted and is now back in stock
… Sean Yendrys Co-published by Window Research Institute Canadian Centre for Architecture and Koenig Books 22 × 30 × 1.4cm/192 pages/Softcove…
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama Ehime Prefecture built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior feat…
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Shinko Clock Shop/Window on the Workbench
Clock store on the island of Osaki Shimojima in Kure Hiroshima Prefecture operating since the Meiji period. The main building on the first f…
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
After walking around Cairo for a few days I took a flight to Aswan Egypt’s southernmost city. From there I followed the Nile River nor…
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants with a …
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Dreh-Kipp Windows
…s a collaboration between the Window Research Institute and product designer Yoh Komiyama with video imagery created by Tomohiro Okazaki. Wi…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
Mario Botta a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland still lives and works in the area practicing architectural design.…
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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
This is a wooden two-story restored photo studio in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The roof on the north side is glass known as a singl…
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them posing the question “Isn’t simply existing o…
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Horizontal Outward Projecting Window
…s a collaboration between the Window Research Institute and product designer Yoh Komiyama with video imagery created by Tomohiro Okazaki. W…
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Japan House Los Angeles Unveils New Exhibition: “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan”
…erspectives on the World The Window Research Institute is proud to announce the launch of its newest exhibition Windowology: New Architectu…
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Suzuki Morihisa Studio/Window of the Ironware Studio
Nanbu Ironware studio in Morioka Iwate Prefecture founded in 1625. The current building dates back to 1885 the year after a large fire broke…
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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
Before Al-Qahirah the city that would become Cairo was created in the 10th century the city of Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this r…
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
A silk scouring plant founded in 1906 in Tsuruoka City Yamagata Prefecture. Silk scouring is achieved by soaking the raw silk in boiling wat…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
The Window Research Institute has held an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows together with the …
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
The Window Research Institute will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows together wi…
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Movie “A City of Columns”
movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …
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Vertical Outward Projecting Window
…s a collaboration between the Window Research Institute and product designer Yoh Komiyama with video imagery created by Tomohiro Okazaki. Wi…
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Izumo Mingeishi Studio/Window of Drying Room
Windows of the drying room at a Japanese paper studio. To make Izumo folk-craft paper the pressed paper is affixed to kiln-heated iron plate…