-
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
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
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”
…ofessor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University in 2003 2007 and 2016. Visiting Associate Professor at UCLA in 2007 and 2008. Visiti…
-
Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
…ofessor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University in 2003 2007 and 2016. Visiting Associate Professor at UCLA in 2007 and 2008. Visiti…
-
Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
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 …
-
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.…
-
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 …
-
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
…ications for Sendai School of Design (a joint partnership between Tohoku University and City of Sendai). She also served as Assistant Curato…
-
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
…t UC Berkeley and Interaction Design at NYUʼs ITP. The translator of Akasegawa Genpeiʼs Hyperart Thomasson creator of the iOS App “Eki…
-
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
…the Toyo Institute of Art and Design. Traveled to the United States in 1971 and attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School until 1973. Gozu con…
-
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…
-
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 …
-
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…
-
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…
-
The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
…lliam Chambers had published “Designs of Chinese buildings furniture dresses machines and utensils” in 1757 and was the foremost figure in C…
-
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…
-
Mill Owner’s Association Building
Windows making up the wall of the eastern meeting room in the Mill Owner’s Association Building designed by Le Corbusier in Ahmedabad. The s…
-
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…
-
“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
…d the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in the United Kingdom. Awards received by Zaera-Polo include the Enric Miralles Prize…
-
Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”
…he Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He worked with Nikken Sekkei and Norman Foster and Partners as an architect. Kobayashi is a foun…
-
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…
-
Thinking about Windows through Photography
Alec Soth who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world and Takashi Homma who has speculated on the relationships bet…