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Usually installed in the form of a fixed window, a picture window frames a pleasing view. This type of window was specifically developed to maximize views.
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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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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world, but wh…
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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Screen Time
…ere a large screen is installed in the place of a picture window. The architects give inhabitants ag…
25 Jan 2023
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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
… windows, with a particular emphasis on the large picture window in her sitting room. I have always …
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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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to th…
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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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made by piecing together leftover p…
22 Oct 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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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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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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Movie “A City of Columns”
,movie “A City of Columns” ,Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultura…
03 Aug 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH…
17 Jun 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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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 1
,I headed further west from Turpan by train to arrive at a city in the western reaches of China call…
31 May 2017
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Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran
,I took a cheap shared taxi from Zanjan in northwest Iran, headed next to the ancient ruins of Takht…
03 Jul 2019
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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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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 3
I realized something was strange here in the centenarian’s Yaodong. The entrances to Yaodongs are ge…
26 Jan 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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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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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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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, the exhibition “Liquid Light” present…
12 Oct 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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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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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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Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”
This serial article, “the Joys of Making Windows” by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory of Keio…
20 Mar 2018
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and tex…
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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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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fear and pleasure, and as theater
The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Muse…
21 Dec 2015
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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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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 pr…
07 Dec 2017
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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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The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series, in which she has used phot…
26 Sep 2016
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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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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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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
…d in the design phase, so I created openings like picture windows on the sides of the building facin…
19 Aug 2013
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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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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
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally rec…
14 Jan 2014