blind window

A blind window does not open. It is a formal window installation to create visual changes in the exterior of a building, not to provide lighting or ventilation. These windows date back to the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries when the window tax, a fixed property tax based on the number of windows, was established in several European countries. Many blind windows are the remnants of existing windows that were bricked up to evade taxes. Some blind windows are installed to decorate an expanse of exterior wall or to bring symmetry to a façade.

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Screen Time

Screens are everywhere: stadiums, stations, billboards, buildings, refrigerators, thermostats, on ou…

Abigail Chang
25 Jan 2023
The Yosuitei06/07　Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08　Nijiriguchi, 09/10　Shitajimado and Renjimado

,06/07　 Shitajimado and Renjimado Another instance where Enshu used his favorite combination of an u…

Yoh Komiyama (Product Designer)
04 Dec 2021
Movie “A City of Columns”

,movie “A City of Columns” ,Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultura…

Norihito Nakatani Seminar (Waseda University)
03 Aug 2020
A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer

The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH…

Annette Gigon & Mike Guyer + Momoyo Kaijima, Simona Ferrari (ETH Zurich)
17 Jun 2020
Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander

Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self, an artist is often restrained by the fr…

Ossian Ward (Art Critic)
03 Feb 2020
The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan

The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, laid the foundations for modern design with its inn…

Jin Motohashi (architectural historian) + Hiromitsu Umemiya (architectural historian)
09 Jul 2021
Mido Cafe

The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. In…

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
24 Jan 2017
In New York: Windows and Looks

Since traveling to New York in the 1970s, artist Masao Gozu has spent over 40 years unveiling work t…

Masao Gozu, Artist
12 Jul 2018
How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worl…

Nader Tehrani (Designer, NADAAA) + Fuminori Nousaku (Architect)
06 Sep 2016
Tracing the urban brickscape

…come across a bricked-up window. These so-called “blind windows” are historically associated with th…

Nanami Kawashima (The University of Tokyo)
17 Sep 2015
Cafe in Suzhou

Windows on the second floor of a café in Suzhou. The waist-high double-lattice windows repeat along …

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
28 Nov 2014
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…

Hideo Hama (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
24 May 2019
Steel House

“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibit…

Fuminori Nousaku (Architect)
27 May 2016
Window and Passive Design

Prof. Kodama was spotlighted who has published a multiple number of projects centered on “passivenes…

Yuichiro Kodama (Architect, ESTEC DESIGN)
10 Jun 2013
Window and Sharing (First Half)

Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for the…

Jun Inokuma + Yuri Naruse (Naruse Inokuma Architects)
24 May 2013
Vol. 4: Windows in Italian

Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…

Yasunari Ueda
11 Sep 2018