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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study bui…
12 Sep 2023
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
…us 3,150-millimeter-wide by 1,900-millimeter-high fixed windows that span the full width of each gue…
12 Oct 2023
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
On the occasion of the “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan” currently being…
12 Jul 2023
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take …
06 Jul 2023
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
Houses stand there, dotting the farmland. Small huts sit above them in the sky. It’s a bit of …
17 Aug 2023
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Thinking About Architecture from Their Windows
This book presents findings from the Tohoku University Taro Igarashi Laboratoryʼs Windowology resear…
10 Jun 2014
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron, the Basel-based architectural duo, founded their firm in 1978 after studying…
24 May 2023
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
…ving windows that could open a darker colour than fixed windows, he made the white window frames loo…
27 Mar 2023
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study bui…
20 Feb 2023
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three…
13 Jan 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The…
15 Dec 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
24 Aug 2022
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Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)
The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on the frontier, and I decided to s…
20 Jul 2022
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico
At age 62, after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years, artist Georgia O’Keeffe…
24 Jun 2022
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Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places
Fushimi: Today, as we begin our new series, “Madosoto: Outside Scenery,” we would like to discuss th…
18 Apr 2022
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Takamasa Yosizaka: A Window Looking Out on the Slope of a Mountain, For One to View the Scenery Below
…ndow of the bowing wall. The mirrors of the upper fixed windows reflected the light strongly, clearl…
31 Mar 2022
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2…
30 Mar 2022
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
…tside. ,,The same paint scheme was applied to the fixed window that used to exist in the building’s …
01 Apr 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori| 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
24 Mar 2022
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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…
04 Dec 2021
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduati…
31 Mar 2022
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Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)
I left the village of Yeyin and took a trip around the island. Going on the road made me conscious o…
12 Jan 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori|001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensivel…
09 Dec 2021
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
,While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people,” people belonging to a variety of ethnic…
11 Nov 2021
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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…through the corridor) and back outside again. The fixed window that was ultimately built to bring li…
22 Oct 2021
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
After his experience on a journey through villages and folk houses in 11 Asian and Middle Eastern co…
14 Sep 2021
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The tr…
07 May 2021
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in e…
15 Feb 2021
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world, a viewf…
08 Oct 2020
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Izumo Mingeishi Studio/Window of Drying Room
Windows of the drying room at a Japanese paper studio. To make Izumo folk-craft paper, the pressed p…
20 Jul 2020
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The Architecture of the Window
In addition to his design practice, the architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani has also cultivated a …
07 May 2020
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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
Among fruit vinegars made from grapes, a balsamic vinegar is an essential seasoning for Italian cuis…
14 Jan 2020
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
,The Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) will be holding …
01 Nov 2019
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Casa Barragan
The window looking onto the inner garden of Louis Barragan’s house is divided into a large fixed win…
07 Aug 2017
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Goddards
…ve around the fireplace. Inside the alcove, three fixed windows are installed facing different direc…
21 Jun 2017
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Goddards
… each window is composed of a combination of both fixed windows and casement windows. ,,,Goddards 2 …
05 Jun 2017
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Hanok in Jeonju
…d beneath the house’s large, overhanging eaves. A fixed window is installed on the inside. Outside, …
08 May 2017
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Hill House
The living room bay window of the Hill House, designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A so…
17 Apr 2017
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The Bauhaus and Its Influence in Japan
… has to let light pass through, you can make it a fixed window; if it has to provide ventilation, yo…
09 Jul 2021
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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 pas…
28 Jan 2019
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“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 desol…
14 Dec 2018
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Library of Aveiro University
… Siza. One can look through the large, horizontal fixed window in the reading room out to another op…
06 Mar 2017
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Vino Santo in Trentino
Drive a car east from Milan, go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy, Lak…
23 Oct 2018
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House for an Art Lover
…asgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It combines a fixed window with casement windows in a large but …
26 Jul 2018
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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…
12 Jul 2018
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Mill Owner’s Association Building
…hmedabad. The surface of the wall is divided into fixed windows and colorful bookshelves, between wh…
04 Apr 2018
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Via Altabella Toyshop
The window of a shop designed in Bologna by Carlo Scarpa. The window, which combines two circular sh…
27 Feb 2018
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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 las…
08 Feb 2018
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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project, a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio Univer…
30 Jan 2018
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Osteria Baracco
The window of a restaurant in Porto Venere. The arched window is made of folding doors, the inside o…
23 Jan 2018
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Sunny Loggia House
…is a window that can be opened by people. I avoid fixed windows as much as possible. I think an abil…
27 May 2016
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Pleasure of Opening Windows
Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows”, the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio Un…
21 Dec 2017
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Speedo’s Cafe
… fitted with a combination of sliding windows and fixed windows. A counter is built into the window,…
14 Apr 2016
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Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga 2
The windows in a guesthouse designed in Lunuganga by Geoffrey Bawa, in which a series of fixed windo…
01 Feb 2016
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
… “Apertures that are for Viewing Scenery” I chose fixed windows that are made to delight the eyes by…
15 Nov 2017
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
Contemporary photographer Takashi Homma held a conversation on the theme of “Thinking about Windows …
17 Dec 2014
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Willow Tearooms
The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twen…
28 Nov 2014
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La Medusa Ristorante
The windows of a restaurant in Porto Venere. A pair of outward-opening windows sits between fixed wi…
09 Oct 2015
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Zigolini’s Café
…d into five folding doors on the top and a single fixed window on the bottom. Inside, a counter sits…
28 Nov 2014
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Hostal Vallarta
… a pair of pivoting casement windows, and several fixed windows. Various furnishings lay inside and …
28 Nov 2014
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Part 2: Apertures for View
… be physically opened or closed, some of them are fixed windows. ,1.“Windows that frame” – Cropping …
18 Oct 2017
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Suleymaniye Camii
…d closing of the alcove space. On the exterior, a fixed window is fitted above a set of double-swing…
10 Oct 2017
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Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga
…d on concrete pilotis, combines a series of small fixed windows with a row of wooden windows that op…
28 Nov 2014
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High-rise condos and windows—from functionality to scenery—
The Attractiveness of A View Partial Ocean View, Ocean View, Ocean Front. If, upon hearing these wor…
22 Aug 2019
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Spinnery Restaurant
…ront of which are placed round tables. Steel sash fixed windows and casement windows are built into …
26 May 2015
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Blackwell
…e out of stone, fitted with a casement window and fixed windows with steel sashes. ,,,Blackwell 1 Ho…
11 May 2015
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature, such as …
15 Jun 2021
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Steel House
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibit…
27 May 2016
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House at Komazawa Park
…outside a window is not always perfect. I suppose fixed windows are useful when you would like to ab…
27 May 2016
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Cats, Fashion, and Windows
Madoka Hattori is the director of ilove.cat, an online magazine themed on cats and creators, and a f…
25 Nov 2014
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Vol. 1: Windows in Japanese
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
24 Apr 2018
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Vol. 6 : Window Culture Studies—Towards Further Linguistic Explorations
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
18 Dec 2018
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Window and Sharing (First Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for the…
24 May 2013
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Vol. 2: Windows in German
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
27 Jun 2018