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The Criminology of Windows
According to sociologist Georg Simmel windows have two fundamental meanings. Firstly they create a unilateral connection between the inside …
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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary Symposium: Windows Represent Civilization and Culture
Tuesday October 3 2017 @ Spiral Hall (Minato-ku Tokyo) A 9-hour academic symposium centered on windows Featuring 27 participants from around…
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
Fleeting and weak though it is light in Scandinavia has a mysterious kind of allure to it. Could it not be that the peoples of Scandinavia w…
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Windows and the Invisible Light
It seems as if an ever-increasing window society took hold in Japan sometime after the Meiji period. The expansion of glass windows to gener…
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train on an airplane or in a café are always popular…
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Windows make society; Society makes windows
…Windows as media (Hideo Hama) History: Invisible Light and Windows (Junji Nishikawa) Fluctuation: Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of W…
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YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window
Thursday September 28 – Monday October 9 2017 (public holiday) @ Spira…
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Opening the Window and Greeting the World
“Windows are the most important element in architecture” says Michele De Lucchi one of the most renowned architects / designers in Italy. He…
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Talk: Norihito Nakatani × Taro Igarashi at ISAIA
In September 2016 the Window Research Institute exhibited a booth at the International Symposium on Architectural Interchange in Asia (ISAIA…
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature such as wood soil and plants as exemplified in hi…
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Steel House
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 one of t…
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The Windows of the Teien Art Museum
…o Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture and Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/en/ *Photograph…
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
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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Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
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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Window and Passive Design
Prof. Kodama was spotlighted who has published a multiple number of projects centered on “passiveness” attracting public notice. He eloquent…
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Concept of a Window
Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the res…
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Vol. 4: Windows in Italian
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma” or “space between ob…
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
…architectural windows. 3. The History of the English Word “Window” One indirect conclusion that can be drawn from looking at linguistic expr…
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Vol. 2: Windows in German
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “wind…