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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
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 1982 was designed by Kiyoshi Seik…
12 Oct 2023
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
While this column has primarily introduced the windows of unnamed buildings in Taiwan, there are a n…
31 Oct 2023
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Windowless Buildings: Their Logic and Pathology
One characteristic element of the modernist architecture that emerged in the early twentieth century…
04 Aug 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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Does light stop within window panes? – Yuriko Kurimoto’s Window
Since Kunié Sugiura wrote about windows in New York last time, let’s start this article on the…
11 May 2023
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The Experimental Design of the House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate, the House in S…
12 Apr 2023
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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
Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht…
27 Mar 2023
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
…8217;s Large Glass can also be considered a large glass window. Another work by Duchamp, Fresh Widow…
02 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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Between Hatakeyama and Sugiura
Kokei and Jokei: Sights we see, scenes we feel Whenever transparent glass is installed into building…
02 Mar 2023
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
…ening the monumental volume to ‘invaders’ with no-glass windows can mean that we experience the arch…
13 Feb 2023
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums, stations, billboards, buildings, refrigerators, thermostats, on ou…
25 Jan 2023
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
…was added to the interior side of the small split-glass window. ,,BOLL HOUSE Arne Jacobsen Hellerup,…
10 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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Vol.1 Naoya Hatakeyama Mirrors or Windows?
I gaze through the window. The scenery outside shines brightly while in a state of movement, and I a…
21 Oct 2022
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Windows in the Tokunoshima, Amami Region: Boma Shimaguchi Dialect
Linguist Yasunari Ueda has been delving into the origins of words from around the world that mean “w…
26 Sep 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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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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No.0: Six Topics for Makoto Ueda’s Interpretation of the Window Space
To kick off the series “Vague Focal Space at the Window,” I interviewed Makoto Ueda, the former Edit…
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
Directing light into a room and letting in air are the major roles for window to play in making a li…
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
…ism. As its most distinctive feature is the large glass window extending across its front face, GROU…
01 Apr 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
…much like with a Gothic cathedral and its stained-glass windows. And indeed, the beauty of the compo…
24 Mar 2022
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Shikidō/Frosted Glass Window for Study
This place is the birthplace of Shiki Masaoka, where he lived until the age of 17 years, reproduced …
04 Mar 2022
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
A greenhouse for growing Muscat in Tsutaka, Kita Ward, Okayama Prefecture. For the cultivation of Mu…
04 Feb 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
…ere designed in Western styles and naturally used glass windows. Famous examples still standing incl…
09 Dec 2021
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…unding environment is composed of a large central glass window and one-meter-wide secondary componen…
22 Oct 2021
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House of Sato Mataroku/Window for inner warehouses
A mercantile house in Masuda, Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, with a history of around 350 years. It …
07 Sep 2021
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
…ally. The middle section holds a vertical sliding glass window equipped with a balance so that it ca…
04 Aug 2021
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
Peter Märkli, one of Switzerland’s leading architects, started his career after meeting his mentor, …
17 May 2021
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
…ing attached to a pole. The double-sliding batten glass windows installed at the top and bottom of t…
07 May 2021
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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
Natsume Soseki composed Inside Glass Doors at the end of his life. From inside his room, the “I” of …
16 Mar 2021
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Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window
This is a wooden, two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was …
05 Mar 2021
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
Candida Höfer is one of Germany’s leading contemporary photographers. She studied under master photo…
03 Oct 2018
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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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An Interview with Richard McGuire, the author of Here: Everything is Transitory
Here is a graphic novel spanning more than 300 pages that allows readers to experience millions of y…
26 Jan 2021
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture, built in 1884. The building is…
20 Jan 2021
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Shinko Clock Shop/Window on the Workbench
Clock store on the island of Osaki Shimojima in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, operating since the Meij…
08 Jan 2021
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
Mario Botta, a master architect born in Ticino in the south of Switzerland, still lives and works in…
17 Nov 2020
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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
…ight, the white and black curtains on the slanted glass window can be slid open and closed. ,,,,Hist…
10 Nov 2020
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
Rei Naito is an artist who creates works that converse with the environments that surround them, pos…
02 Nov 2020
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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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Life Seeps Through Frosted Glass
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprou…
02 Oct 2020
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Nature Behind a Curtain Wall
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprou…
02 Sep 2020
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A Combining City: Cairo
…e various designs, and your eyes are drawn to the glass windows set in wood just inside their double…
15 Jul 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
…outside to inside: wind shield, blinds, insulated glass window. ,,,MG: The interesting thing with th…
17 Jun 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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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Three panelists discuss how photography, architecture, and windows are interrelated. They are Iwan B…
09 Apr 2020
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Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work
Chiharu Shiota is an ever-active Berlin-based artist. In works such as her large-scale installations…
15 Oct 2019
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Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran
,I experienced no small amount of culture shock in Iran, as it was the first Islamic country I visit…
19 Feb 2020
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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…
03 Feb 2020
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
The following morning when I arrived at Classy’s house at the scheduled time, we met with another ma…
19 Jul 2017
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
,There is a small village in the valleys of Iran known as Masuleh that has stood there for over a th…
03 Dec 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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Symbolic Realism
The pioneers (2) Talbot ,View of the Boulevards at Paris, 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in Franc…
11 Jul 2019
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Casa Priet Lopez
A window looking onto the garden of a house built by Louis Barragan in the wealthy residential neigh…
24 Jul 2017
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Coffee & Cake
The window of a café in Myeongdong, Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on th…
03 Jul 2017
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Chapter 1: The studio – exploring the mind of the artist from Caspar David Friedrich to Spencer Finch
An artist contemplates a blank canvas or a white piece of paper in the studio or at a table, perhaps…
26 Apr 2019
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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
…evels are achieved by covering the double sliding glass windows with wooden shades that have been dy…
02 Apr 2019
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Hidaka Training and Research Center (JRA)/Window of the Horse Track
Located on the premises of the JRAʼs production, training, and research center, an approximately 150…
19 Feb 2019
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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
The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, laid the foundations for modern design with its inn…
09 Jul 2021
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Takekobo/Window of the Bamboo Workshop
A bamboo workshop in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, established about 140 years ago. To be able to open i…
05 Feb 2019
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House for an Art Lover
The dining room windows of the House for an Art Lover, designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackint…
21 Mar 2017
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Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store
This restaurant in Tomonoura, Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building…
21 Dec 2018
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Windows: Openings and devices
Laurent Stalder, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), has rese…
12 Dec 2018
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
…d they have matured so that wooden sash doors and glass windows separate the inside from the out. An…
05 Dec 2018
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Histori…
20 Nov 2018
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along th…
28 Feb 2017
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Lim Residence
The window’s of Jimmy Lim’s private house in Kuala Lumpur. The windows revolved on a vertical axis a…
20 Feb 2017
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Part 1: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
“Human behaviors are the best design resources.” Architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow/Prof…
05 Nov 2018
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale is currently open from Saturday, May 26 to Sunday, November 25…
07 Sep 2018
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America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses”, we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that …
19 Jan 2017
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Part 5: To China International Window City!
…od, stone, and lapis lazuli doors and windows, to glass windows from the early-modern and modern per…
22 Aug 2018
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Bevis Bawa’s Garden 1
The window in the loggia part of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa, in which an iron g…
17 Oct 2016
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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
…to control humidity on hot summer days. The fixed glass windows on top let light in, allowing Robert…
19 Jun 2018
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The Window is the Difference between the Life and Death of a Space
There are many things you can understand about a company’s image by looking at the way it makes use …
11 Oct 2016
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Architectural Ethnography, Part A
To commemorate the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia…
01 Jun 2018
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
Reiser + Umemoto is the architect duo behind the design of the O-14 office tower in Dubai. What ulti…
27 Sep 2016
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worl…
06 Sep 2016
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Tenjin Sanshi Kojo/Window of the Paper Factory
This is a 90-year-old paper factory in Uchiko, Ehime, that specializes in making Ozu washi (handmade…
26 Apr 2018
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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August …
06 Sep 2016
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Windows and Memories
The artist Leandro Erlich became quite a topic of conversation at this past “Windowology 10th Annive…
12 Apr 2018
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The Maniac Behind The Glasshouse
Kew Gardens is a botanical research institution situated in southwest London, and is home to the wor…
29 Jun 2016
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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 …
13 Jun 2016
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
10 Apr 2018
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“Why is This Guy Asking Me to Think about the U-value and the Leakage?”
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo conducted a series of interviews with a…
06 Sep 2016
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
Alec Soth, who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world, and Takashi Homma, …
06 Jul 2016
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What Do You Think of Glass?
Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi of the University of Tokyo is the foremost authority on digital fa…
28 Jul 2016
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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 o…
08 Mar 2016
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibit…
27 May 2016
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Boundary Window
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibit…
27 May 2016
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Restaurant in Ha Noi
The window of a restaurant in Ha Noi. Three surfaces are made of glass, with various parts that open…
13 May 2016
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Sunny Loggia House
Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, …
27 May 2016
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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 “dis…
17 Sep 2015
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IIM cafeteria
A window in the cafeteria of the Indian Institute of Management, designed in Ahmedabad by Louis Kahn…
22 Nov 2017
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
One way to use an aperture is to pass physical things through it. In most cases apertures are instal…
15 Nov 2017
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
… formed an image of the other side on the frosted glass window in front of the shutter. The image wa…
17 Dec 2014
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Part 2: Apertures for View
Apertures have many purposes of uses. They are used as light sources, as ventilation, and as portals…
18 Oct 2017
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Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open
…m various times and places, including the stained glass windows of cathedrals, the window of Ginkaku…
28 Sep 2017
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Lou Kao Mansion
A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red, b…
07 Sep 2015
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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…
20 Sep 2017
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Tugendhat House
The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in th…
11 Sep 2017
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Zhenchenglou
Windows of the Hakka walled villages, a traditional Chinese circular residential form. The entrance …
26 May 2015
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Windows and the Invisible Light
…sometime after the Meiji period. The expansion of glass windows to general housing complexes also be…
17 Jun 2019
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
…ience the same view differently with or without a glass window. How does our experience change when …
24 May 2019
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Colonial Style House
… house in Bentota. The gabled bay window includes glass windows that pivot on a central vertical axi…
11 May 2015
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Lantern Shop in Hoi An
The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden, louvered double casement windows are fitted not…
28 Apr 2015
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
…a style of opening, which comprises a large fixed glass window flanked by narrow open-able sash wind…
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
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibit…
27 May 2016
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Giving Color to Windows
…hrough the windows. ,,I made this pattern for the glass windows of the wedding hall by combining a f…
18 Mar 2015
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The Windows of the Teien Art Museum
Sumally is a social networking service that has been created from the concept of making “an ‘encyclo…
09 Mar 2015
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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 weste…
08 Mar 2018
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
…d the phenomena. Similarly, like with the stained-glass windows of churches, you will not get bored …
19 Aug 2013
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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 weste…
14 Feb 2018
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Concept of a Window
Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The inte…
24 May 2013
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Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
27 Nov 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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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
09 Jan 2018
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Experimenting with Windows
…ifference lies between the case in which you have glass windows that you can clearly see everything …
14 Jan 2014
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
30 Aug 2018