roof window
Synonym :
skylight
top light
dormer window
A roof window is installed in the roof. A roof window with a small gabled roof and vertical windows is a dormer window.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ethnici…
11 Nov 2021
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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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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade, but he became a leading modernist architect himse…
04 Aug 2021
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
,This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-lo…
07 Jul 2021
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Restored Salt Pan Kamaya/Thatched Roof with Ventilation Window
This is the restored saltworks in the Ako City Marine Science Museum at the Hyogo Prefecture. Ako, w…
04 Jun 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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Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery as you look through the window…
27 Apr 2021
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Mineral Workshop/Polycarbonate Roofing for the Salt Production
Salt workshop in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. Seawater is suctioned via pump from the nearby J…
07 Apr 2021
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
,I could see land the color of milk out of the airplane window. My journey had started in China, mov…
22 Mar 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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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi, Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp, Indian sa…
03 Feb 2021
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
,After walking around Cairo for a few days, I took a flight to Aswan, Egypt’s southernmost cit…
10 Dec 2020
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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
This is a wooden, two-story restored photo studio in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The roof on…
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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Suzuki Morihisa Studio/Window of the Ironware Studio
Nanbu Ironware studio in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, founded in 1625. The current building dates back…
20 Oct 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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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
,Before Al-Qahirah, the city that would become Cairo, was created in the 10th century, the city of F…
15 Sep 2020
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
A silk scouring plant founded in 1906 in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture. Silk scouring is achiev…
08 Sep 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 Combining City: Cairo
,I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent.…
15 Jul 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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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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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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“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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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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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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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
The Bormida Valley is located in the southern part of Piedmont, a region in northwestern Italy locat…
28 May 2019
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
Based in London, 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cult…
22 Apr 2019
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The Battle for Realism
The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre ,“I made a dissolution of silver nitrate, much diluted by…
28 Mar 2019
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translato…
05 Mar 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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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: M…
17 Sep 2018
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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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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran, part 2
In Kachalam, a village in East Gilan, a man agreed to show me around in his car despite it only bein…
07 Feb 2019
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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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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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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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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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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 2
The Arsenale Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura For Mexico-based architect Rozana Montiel, frees…
04 Nov 2018
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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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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)
It was cold in the morning so high above sea level. But when I walked out to the third-floor terrace…
15 Oct 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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Vol. 4: Windows in Italian
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
11 Sep 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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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
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
,movie “THE CORALLUM” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refe…
10 Jul 2018
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Garlic Window in Vessalico village
Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from …
19 Jun 2018
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia …
07 Jun 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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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)
Many valley-side settlements located 2-3,000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of …
19 Apr 2018
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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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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 Kinna…
14 Mar 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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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 wh…
11 Jan 2018
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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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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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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 …
01 Nov 2017
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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary Symposium: Windows Represent Civilization and Culture
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 @ Spiral Hall (Minato-ku, Tokyo) A 9-hour academic symposium centered on wi…
28 Sep 2017
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Design Action, Self-involvement: The World Seen from Making a Window
Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC implements activities aiming for regeneration and…
06 Sep 2017
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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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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2
After driving for about 7 minutes in Classy’s car, the windshield of which had a crack in it, we arr…
28 Jun 2017
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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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A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3
What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea lev…
19 Apr 2017
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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 …
22 Mar 2017
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence, they developed a wide…
16 Mar 2017
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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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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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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (2)
Repeating myself the phrase “your house” in Chinese, the old man and I walked for about 40 minutes t…
08 Nov 2016
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects, including houses, a church, a stat…
06 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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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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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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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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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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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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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolvin…
17 Sep 2015
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Loncheria Cocos le Club
The window of a sandwich shop near Lake Chapala, in a town on the outskirts of Guadalajara. The coun…
07 Sep 2015
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in th…
18 Mar 2015
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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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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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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally rec…
14 Jan 2014
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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
The following interview was held with architect Hiroshi Nakamura, who has been gaining recognition f…
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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Window and Sharing (Second 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. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to e…
28 Mar 2018