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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan

…t. Composing Spaces to Unite Design and Management Why did Kawakita become so interested in the Bauhaus? HU       Certainly to some extent…

“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…

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…

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 …

Adobe Windows

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…

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…

America (3)

Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence they developed a wide variety of housing styles including the …

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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 …

Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi

The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…

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 …

Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3

Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Historian Professor at Istituto Universitario d…

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…

Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology” an extensive field work on windows around t…

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…

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 …

Movie “The Birth Canal”

movie “The Birth Canal” “Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural componen…

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 …

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…

Liquid Light

Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the …

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.…

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…

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…

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window @ Kyushu University

… 13 14 October 2018 [ Venue ] Design Common Faculty of Design Kyushu University Ohashi Campus (4 Chome-9-1 Shiobaru Minami Ward Fukuoka Fuku…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

You Make a Better Window Than a Door

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…

Movie “THE CORALLUM”

…t symbolic space for worship. Designated as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites many worshippers still come to Sefa Utaki today where the…

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…

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…

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…

The Window Works at the Existential and Philosophical Level

…e curator of Architecture and Design at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Kipnis has taught at Harvard University Cooper Union and Columbia Un…

Architectural Ethnography, Part B

…he Harvard Graduate School of Design (2003 2016) ETHZ (2005-7) the Royal Danish Academy (2011-12) Rice University (2014-15) Delft University…

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…

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 ornamentati…

The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space

…rom Yale University. He was a Design Studio Professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP and is also an architectural design professor at the Un…

Architectural Ethnography, Part A

…he Harvard Graduate School of Design (2003 2016) ETHZ (2005-7) the Royal Danish Academy (2011-12) Rice University (2014-15) Delft University…

Architectural Intention behind Technology

…dscape Architecture and Urban Design at Osaka University of Art before receiving her Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union. She is a Vi…

Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside

Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects including houses a church a station square and art museums. He has also fou…

How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

…of “Melbourne School of Design” (2014) is very unique. Tehrani:It may be helpful to cite the different ways in which windows or …