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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…

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…

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…

“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”

This serial article “the Joys of Making Windows” by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory of Keio University comprises five parts and intr…

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…

Michele de Lucchi and Windowology

Michele de Lucchi is a leading Italian architect who has been active in his field since the 1980s. The drawings he created for his interview…

What Do You Think of Glass?

…eley College of Environmental Design and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Eric Owen Moss Architects was founded in 1973 and t…

Pousadas Santa Maria do Bruno

A window in the corridor of an old monastery renovated as a hotel in Bouro Braga. It was designed by Souto de Moura. The slender steel sash …

Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”　

Kikugetsutei is a teahouse located in the early modern-age daimyo (feudal lord) garden “Ritsurin Garden” in Takamatsu city Kagaw…

Via Altabella Toyshop

The window of a shop designed in Bologna by Carlo Scarpa. The window which combines two circular shapes is fixed to the façade from which it…

Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2

As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet rea…

Into the Depth of the Window

The end of summer time like the morning air which feels more and more crisp as the days go by is one of those things that remind me of the c…

Office in Kuala Lumpur

The windows of an office building designed by Kevin Low on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Lounge spaces such as a smoking area sit in the sp…

Window into Another Culture

Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…

Exhibition “Present State(ment)”

“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…

fear and pleasure, and as theater

The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Museum is located approximately at the cente…

Boundary Window

…onored with Gold Prize of JCD Design Award 2011 and 2014 Second Prize of AR+ D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2011 and First Prize in 2014…

A Conversation on Windows and Stories

This is a video of a conversation on windows and stories between architect Hiroshi Hara and contemporary artist Leandro Erlich. Filmed on Ap…

Sunny Loggia House

Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of n…

Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 1

Siem Reap is one of the cities in Cambodia along with Angkor Wat that is hopping with tourists who come to see the ancient ruins that lie th…

Pleasure of Opening Windows

Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

la fenêtre à la française

Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment Paris has kept the skylin…

WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition

The Tokyo Midtown Design Hub Special Exhibition titled WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition—The Research Behind the Milano Salone Exhibit w…

Tracing the urban brickscape

As surprising as it may seem I feel that the true quality of a city such as London lies in its “disorderliness”. Within the city countless e…

WINDOWSCAPE: An Exhibit for the Milano Salone

YKK AP and the internationally acclaimed architectural studio Atelier Bow-Wow put together a joint exhibit for the Milano Salone held in Ita…

The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2

I descended to the center of Larung Gar where it seemed a lecture or assembly had just ended as priests were entering and leaving the buildi…

Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga 2

The windows in a guesthouse designed in Lunuganga by Geoffrey Bawa in which a series of fixed windows are arranged. Outside one can see a de…

IIM cafeteria

A window in the cafeteria of the Indian Institute of Management designed in Ahmedabad by Louis Kahn. The large brick arch creates a buffer l…

Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through

…useum of Art Architecture and Design since 2014. It has been restored to its original state and is open to the general public now. Arne Kors…

Villa Le Lac

A continuous series of windows facing the water in the Villa Le Lac designed by Le Corbusier for his mother. The eleven meter long windowsil…

Window Bookcase (1)

This project started when we commissioned o+h the young wife-and-husband team of architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda to design a bookcas…

Window Embracing the Hometown

Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

Bevis Bawa’s Garden 3

The bay window of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa in which three sets of combined casement windows and projected transom win…

The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 1

I boarded a bus in Chengdu the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan and headed toward eastern Tibet. My destination was the Nying…

Thinking about Windows through Photography

…University Graduate School of Design in 2003 and 2007; University of California Los Angeles in 2007 and 2008; Royal Danish Academy of Fine A…

YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary

…or of Windowology) Exhibition Design: Tezzo Nishizawa (Architect) Exhibition Graphics: Ken Okamoto (Graphic designer) Organizer: YKK AP Inc.…

Willow Tearooms

The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twenty-two fixed and double-swing windows ma…

Part 2: Apertures for View

Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources as ventilation and as portals through which people pass. In each of the…

A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2

I came across a group of grape-drying huts on a hill just off the settlement. These huts I had seen the day I arrived in Turpan while taking…

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open

…i Shibata (Editor) Exhibition Designer: Tezzo Nishizawa (Architect) Ex…

Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga

A window in the guesthouse of Lunuganga designed by Geoffrey Bawa. This bay window raised on concrete pilotis combines a series of small fix…

The Origin of the Idea

…of the Kent Institute Art and Design in 1990. Graduated from the sculpture course in the Fine Art Department of the Chelsea College of Art a…

The Criminology of Windows

…vention through Environmental Design） In an attempt to deal with these windows as a path for trespassing a project aimed at improving the ph…