Round window
A circular window used across different regions and architectural periods. See also bull’s-eye window, oculus.
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Swiss Window Journeys: A Conversation between Andrea Deplazes, Laurent Stalder, and Momoyo Kaijima
On 12 April 2024, to celebrate the publication of Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes, the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology organized a walking tour of notable windows across the city…
17 Dec 2024
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
This fellowship program, launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), is open to accomplished professionals who hold a doctoral degree or have substantial work experience and a co…
31 Jul 2024
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A Conversation with Leth & Gori
How do you create a house that can be maintenance-free for 50 years and last for at least 150 years? The Brick House, designed by the Denmark-based architect duo Leth & Gori as part of an initiati…
14 Mar 2025
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Issue 14: A Window for Standing Still—Fieldoffice Architects, Paomagudao Park
This issue, I’d like to introduce a park that I designed myself. Jiaoxi, Yilan’s Paomagudao Park, completed in 2021, was formerly the Mingde Training Class, built as a training school (qua…
22 Jan 2025
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01│Antoni Gaudí: A “Sensible Architect”
Introduction The window is an extremely popular motif among architects. It would be natural to think that the possibilities for window design flourished after the mass production of plate glass began …
11 Dec 2024
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Architecture in Motion
Architect YU Momoeda, who is a long-time admirer of Shoei Yoh, participated in the Find and Tell residency program of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), providing his readings of the archival…
19 Mar 2025
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Shoei Yoh’s “Light Architecture”
Through this series, “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light”, we have compiled analyses of the work of architect Shoei Yoh focused on the theme of light. Here is a recap of their contents. First, in “Light is…
28 Mar 2025
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Issue 13: Democracy Under Canopies (Fieldoffice Architects)
Democracy and freedom have now spread throughout Taiwan, a place where freedom was once heavily restricted. This is something one can feel even in their daily life. The people of Taiwan are unusually …
18 Nov 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│008: The Ribbon Window of the Karuizawa Summer House—The Modernists’ Dream, Realized in Japan
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
20 Mar 2025
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“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium to be held at the AIJ Hall on September 7, 2024
The Window Research Institute (WRI) is delighted to present the “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium. Shoei Yoh (1940–) began his creative career as an interior designer in the 1970s …
23 Aug 2024
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“Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” Symposium Report
On September 7, 2024, the symposium “Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light” was held at the AIJ Hall (Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo). Centered around the theme of “light”, this event was organized a…
25 Feb 2025
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Talk Event Report: Swiss Window Journeys Speakers: Momoyo Kaijima, Chie Konno, Fumiko Takahama, Mio Tsuneyama
On June 22, 2024 (Saturday), the Swiss Window Journeys – Swiss Windows and Architecture talk event was held in the Architectural Hall of the Architectural Institute of Japan. The event was held to cel…
26 Sep 2024
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From Interiors to Non-Architecture
Architect and architectural history researcher Masaaki Iwamoto, who has been leading the development of the Shoei Yoh Archive, sheds light on Yoh’s early works, from his de facto debut project, …
22 Oct 2024
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The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass
Tomo Inoue, a building construction expert engaged in efforts to digitally reconstruct Shoei Yoh’s works using 3D scanners, explains the novelty of the Ingot Coffee Shop, an early work of architecture…
04 Oct 2024
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The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)
Numazu, Shizuoka—the birthplace of Kojiro Serizawa, the author known for works such as Ningen no Unmei [The Fate of a Human]. Nestled in a pine forest beside Suruga Bay is the Serizawa Literary Center…
25 Dec 2024
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The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…
The International Christian University’s campus plan was originally designed by W. M. Vories & Co. and later developed by Antonin Raymond. The Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel, whi…
28 Aug 2024
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A Conversation with Silke Langenberg
Silke Langenberg, Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, has been conducting surveys of folk houses throughout Switzerland and explo…
25 Jul 2024
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The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4
After resuming his creative activities with his new firm, Jean Prouvé Constructions, Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille in a project he had been working on concurrently with the V…
18 Jul 2024
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024
This fellowship program, launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), is open to accomplished professionals who hold a doctoral degree or have substantial work experience and a co…
01 Aug 2023
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Issue 12: A Small Church for the Indigenous (Taitung)
It’s said that Christians now constitute around 7% of Taiwan’s population, a rather high proportion compared to Japan’s stated rate of around 1%. Though neighboring countries, their …
20 Jun 2024
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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
05 Apr 2024
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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Windows and daylight influence our behavior. This is unpacked in VILLUM Window Collection’s new exhibition curated by Japanese architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), who has devoted many yea…
05 Apr 2024
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“Light is Light and Light”
The Archaeology of the Digital exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2013 served as a catalyst for reevaluating the pioneering nature of Shoei Yoh’s digital designs. Martien…
04 Apr 2024
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A window with a memory
I’ve enjoyed drawing pictures ever since I was little, and used to make paintings using my own hands and brushes to apply oil to canvas and panel surfaces. Although I’ve since transitioned to making w…
22 Apr 2024
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Windows: Overlapping and passing through
Why wasn’t it a window? I organized an exhibition called Medium and Dimension: Liminal and wrote a text for the exhibition catalogue entitled Apartment: Regarding walls and doors, or time and space. A…
25 Mar 2024
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Why Norman Foster Scoops Daylight into his Buildings
Norman Foster, known for blending art and science in architecture, has led the field since the late 20th century. His designs, balancing high-tech with environmental consciousness, have earned global …
24 May 2024
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Shoei Yoh: A Journey of Light—Introduction
Architect Shoei Yoh began his creative career as an interior designer in the 1970s. In 2019, he donated materials from his professional archive to Kyushu University, where they are currently being cat…
21 Mar 2024
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy, Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet, he would begin developing new window designs again after reuniting with…
28 Mar 2024
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
The Awazu House, designed by Hiroshi Hara, now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this home and atelier of world-famous graphic designer Kiyoshi …
26 Apr 2024
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
The campus of Taiwan’s first private university, Tunghai University, stretches across the suburbs of Taichung, a city in the center-west of Taiwan. It is Taiwan’s first Christian school fo…
04 Mar 2024
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A Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House
Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951), a prominent Showa era writer, established a new residence in Shimoochiai (present-day Nakai), Tokyo, in 1941, amid a time of war. While commissioning the project to archite…
19 Mar 2025
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
01 Feb 2024
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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 from 1924 has achieved iconic status. In fact, Rietveld built around 100 houses, and of these very …
27 Mar 2023
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Chochikukyo
Located in the foothills of Mount Tennozan, overlooking the headwaters of the Yodogawa River in Yama…
27 Feb 2025
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Aichi University of the Arts Lecture Building
This building extends 110 meters in the north-south direction, establishing a strong axis at the hea…
27 Feb 2025
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Fumiko Hayashi Residence
Built as two separate structures to comply with wartime restrictions that limited new residential co…
27 Feb 2025
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House, now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum, stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa, a suburban neighborhood in Kyoto’s Sakyo Ward with open views of Mou…
15 Jan 2024
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. François Charbonnet, one of its co-principals, formerly taught as a visiting professor at ETH Zurich a…
25 Jan 2024
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
The Aichi University of the Arts was built to the designs of Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura in 1966. Situated in the forested hills of Nagakute, Aichi, the campus was planned with consideration of e…
19 Jan 2024
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Issue 10: The Billowing School—Chen Ren-He, Wave Building, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Kaohsiung)
When talking about the first generation of post-war Taiwanese architects, there are famous individuals such as Wang Da-Hong, who studied under Walter Gropius and were involved in many state projects s…
10 Jan 2024
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
The architectural movement of Metabolism arose in the 1960s, when Japan’s cities began to reemerge from the devastation of World War II. It was led by the critic Noboru Kawazoe, architects such as Kis…
22 Dec 2023
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Katsura Catholic Church
Completed in 1965, the Katsura Catholic Church in Kyoto is known as the only George Nakashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of the main building is composed simply of a thin, rhomboid hype…
12 Jan 2024
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Revolving windows
Revolving windows rotate either horizontally or vertically around the central axis of a window frame. The former type typically swings inwards at the top and outwards at the bottom to prevent water fr…
21 May 2024
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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 buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
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 Seike. Seike is known as the architect of a number of Prince hotels locations, with Karuizawa being the …
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 number of works of modern and contemporary architecture that I would like to discuss. One such struct…
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 is the large window. That is, windows much larger as compared to those of traditional European maso…
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 held in Copenhagen, we conducted a series of interviews with four Danish architects in cooperation …
12 Jul 2023
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001 Foligno / Brussels / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
06 Sep 2016
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002Utrecht / London / Assisi
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
14 Sep 2016
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Komai House
This Spanish Mission-style house was designed with an emphasis on healthy living. It is characterize…
27 Feb 2025
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our living rooms. Through the screen’s interface, we gain access …
06 Jul 2023
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Alvar Aalto Living room of Mäntylä
This is the living room of a house designed for a senior engineer at the Tampella factory in Inkeroinen, an area that thrived on the wood industry. An array of 20 square double-layered windows covers …
14 May 2024
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Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen’s Showcase windows of the Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building located on a corner lot along Aleksanterinkatu in central Helsinki was designed by the national romanticist architects Eliel Saarinen, Armas Lindgren, and Herman Gesell…
25 Aug 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 a strange sight, but one that you’ll notice sooner or later if you live in rural Taiwan. ,Smal…
17 Aug 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 topic of the American windows that were once in Nagoya. Yamato Seimei Building (originally the Nago…
11 May 2023
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WindowScape: Window Behaviorology
01 Oct 2010
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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
05 Jul 2023
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate, the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo designed by renowned Hokkaido architect Tetsu Katono (1924–2009) …
12 Apr 2023
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Donald Judd and Windows: Contemplating Openings Through the Artist’s Interior Designs and Architectural Renovations
0. Introduction——Why Judd Now? Donald Judd (1928–94), an icon of American Minimalism, has many admirers in the architecture world. Presumably, this is because his artwork is loaded with allusions to a…
07 Feb 2024
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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 architecture at ETH Zurich. They have since designed numerous prominent projects worldwide, such as…
24 May 2023
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Kay FiskerStorefront at Stefansgård
The apartment building in Copenhagen. Due to restrictions placed on the use of steel during World War II, a steel lintel could not be used. Kay Fisker instead used layers of traditional brick arches t…
17 May 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 when windows appear in photographs, they are often there to serve as a background or explanation for t…
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 buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
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 buildings or trains or cars, a boundary is established, resulting in the creation of an inside and an outsid…
02 Mar 2023
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580,000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan, it seems the term “indigenous” is often used), representing 2.5% of the Taiwanese population. The governm…
09 Mar 2023
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
When we face the presence of towering walls, massive mountains, or solid architectural volumes, we feel both fear and affection. The nature of a solid wall seems to suggest something divine or sublime…
13 Feb 2023
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Screen Time
Screens are everywhere: stadiums, stations, billboards, buildings, refrigerators, thermostats, on our wrists, and in our hands. As a physical interface and virtual portal, screens are also the digital…
25 Jan 2023
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Arne JacobsenBoll House
This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protruding from a traditional yellow brick wall, and a radiator i…
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 windows which straddle the border between the roof and the wall take the northern skylight into the…
13 Jan 2023
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Arne JacobsenSoholm I
The Soholm Row Houses are built at Bellevue Beach, and Jacobsen himself purchased one of the Soholm I units for use, making the interior a place of work. The meeting room on the first floor has storag…
10 Mar 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus on housing and urban design in Switzerland through numerous…
15 Dec 2022
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Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous
Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opened chicken stores, and the old men dully slurp their wonton n…
27 Oct 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 am drawn with fascination to all that unfolds before my eyes. All is there on the other side of the w…
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 “window” to understand how the concepts behind them have evolved over the ages. In this article, he fo…
26 Sep 2022
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Please refer to the event archive from below link: ,After being exhibited at the three Japan Houses in Los Angeles, São Paulo, and London, we are excited to announce that the exhibition Windowology: N…
29 Aug 2022
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2023
This fellowship program, launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), is open to accomplished professionals who hold a doctoral degree or have substantial work experience and a co…
10 Aug 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 extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
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 survey the quiet guesthouse before my friends woke up. While the stonework building appeared to only …
20 Jul 2022
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Former Kyoto Prefectural Tea House/Viewing window for Uji tea
A tea ceremony hall in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture. The building was established for the Kyoto Prefecture Tea Industry Chamber, which is currently used for tea classes as the Uji tea dojo “Takumi no Ya…
08 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 made rural Northern New Mexico her permanent home. There, she lived between two adobe homes well in…
24 Jun 2022
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Sapporo Agricultural College Farm No. 2/Window for Corn Storage
A grain store built in 1876 on the campus of Hokkaido University in Sapporo City, Hokkaido. Under the large-scale agricultural management plan of Dr. Clark, a warehouse for storing corn, which serves …
10 Jun 2022
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Osaki lacquerware shop/Lacquer and Clerestory
The earthen space in the Osaki lacquerware shop. The quality of lacquerware is verified by steaming the finished lacquerware in a pot placed on the earthen floor. High-placed windows enable heat and s…
13 May 2022
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Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)
The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan, about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations from Taiwan’s center, its sweet potato-shaped main is…
25 May 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 the scenery outside the window. First, let me explain this series’ main purpose. This website has many…
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 Editor in Chief of Toshi Jutaku (Urban Housing) and GA HOUSES. Here, Mr. Ueda has offered six examples t…
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 living environment comfortable. Yet, there is also a type of window whose main purpose is to expose th…
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 2005 (held at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), YOSHIMURA was featured in NHK…
30 Mar 2022
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Fifty stories around Window and Architecture
29 Sep 2017
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Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows
29 Nov 2019
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Yoshitika Utida: Window and Architecture Seminars
29 Oct 2017
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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 the public after the architecture collective GROUP completed a partial renovation of its interior wall…
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 extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
24 Mar 2022
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The Yosuitei03 Furosakimado
03 Furosakimado A furosakimado (lit. “window beyond the brazier”) is a type of window made in the wall behind the brazier used in tea ceremonies, and it is named based on its location. It provides tas…
02 Dec 2021
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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 in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. Shiki studied Chinese poetry and other works in a three-tatami-mat s…
04 Mar 2022
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A Conversation with Christ & Gantenbein
Christ & Gantenbein was formed in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein after graduating from ETH Zurich. To date, they have been involved in a wide range of projects, including the reno…
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 Muscat, a temperature of approximately 20 °C and a substantial amount of ultraviolet light are desirab…
04 Feb 2022
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Kadomi Family Residence/Watchtower Window
This shipping agency in Monzen-machi Kuroshima-machi, Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, got burned down in a large fire in 1871 and was rebuilt the following year. The Sea of Japan is visible from the…
14 Jan 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 of being in another land, but in a different way from mainland Taiwan, whether I encountered a pack 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 extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
09 Dec 2021
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Kaisen Donya Shipping Agency, Takita Family Residence/Window and the closet
This is the former residence of the Takita family, former shipping agents in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture. The depth of the thick section of the closet is enough for the window to be deep-set, dimm…
03 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 ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While I flew to Taiwan’s main island for this installment, …
11 Nov 2021
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Kosho Shogakudo/Window for Books
The shopfront of this secondhand bookstore in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, features built-in bookcases facing the street by the entrance, overflowing with old books. At night, when the showcases are illuminat…
05 Nov 2021
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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan, from 1 December 2021 until 24 April 2022 at Japan House London. Booking from here. …
01 Oct 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 parts from past projects. In the second article of this series, Shin Yokoo examines how Prouvé incorp…
22 Oct 2021
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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2022
This fellowship program, launched jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), is open to accomplished professionals who hold a doctoral degree or have substantial work experience and a co…
19 Oct 2021
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Hatcho Miso Kakukyu/Window of Miso Storehouse
This Hatcho Miso storehouse (okura) in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, was built in 1907 and is now a museum. The second floor was a site of soybean production, where steamed soybeans were spread over…
06 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 countries, Ryuki Taguma now lives in Yilan, located in northeast Taiwan, while practicing architectura…
14 Sep 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 has been designated as an important national cultural property. This building in Masuda-cho, which i…
07 Sep 2021
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Fujiwara Bee Farm/Window for Bees
A bee farm founded in 1901 in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture. Originally, beehives were left exposed to the weather outside, but in severely cold areas, hives are placed in huts during the winter. Wit…
20 Aug 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 himself through collaborating with progressive architects such as Le Corbusier. He is particularly known …
04 Aug 2021
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Shimamura (now Kuwashima, Hakusan). Up until the Edo period, …
09 Jul 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-long trip. While I had decided where to go ahead of time to some degree, there was still some freedom t…
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, which is blessed with the calm climate of Seto Inland Sea, has been known as a salt-producing town si…
04 Jun 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, the architect Rudolf Olgiati. In 1978 he established his own studio, Studio Märkli, in Zurich. Since…
17 May 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 trains enter and leave from the double-opening wooden doors at the front. The doors can be fixed open …
07 May 2021
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Yusho Takiguchi, Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery as you look through the window. The moving views you see from a train window. Windows give vague boundaries to our everyday lives,…
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 Japan Sea to the flat tank outside the building. The seawater is concentrated by a factor of 8 and th…
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, moving ever westward from there, and I was now on a short flight from Egypt headed to my final destinati…
22 Mar 2021
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The Storage Shed/Window of the Traditional Herring Fishing in Hokkaido
A flat wooden fishing boat shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The storage shed is a facility used to temporarily store the obtained herring. After the fishing season, it was used as a warehou…
24 Mar 2021
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Today/Yesterday #2
This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka, who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us what she sees through her windows as the everyday changes dra…
09 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 these essays watches the days go by, meditating over visions of the past. Toshiyuki Horie, writer an…
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 restored in 1960. The modern-day post office was launched in Hokkaido in 1872. This building only ha…
05 Mar 2021
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Nasu Shochu Brewery/Shochu, Rice Fields and the Window
A brewery founded in 1917 in Kuma-gun, Kumamoto Prefecture. Since its founding, it has continued to brew the shochu “Kuma-no-Izumi” by hand such as making malt with a morobuta (small box for making ma…
24 Feb 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 photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, and is today widely known as a practitioner of the Becher school of…
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 eastern Switzerland. It is also the home of architect Gion A. Caminada, who has designed many buildin…
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 years of time while observing a single corner of a room. Since its first publication in 2014, the wor…
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 salmon, scallops, and herring. There are generally three types of smoking techniques with different te…
03 Feb 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 still being used today. The interior features double sliding sweep-out windows along the corridors …
20 Jan 2021
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Shizuka Yokomizo｜Today/Yesterday #1
Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us what she observes through her windows as the everyday gentl…
14 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 Meiji period. The main building on the first floor functions as both a store and a workshop, featuring a…
08 Jan 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 city. From there, I followed the Nile River north for about ten days back to Cairo together with acquain…
10 Dec 2020
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants, with a ceiling of approximately 9.5 m high. The fabrics dyed on t…
02 Dec 2020
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An Alien Landscape from the Window
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprout from the earth, and flowers floating in a vase. The pigments in the sky at sunset, primary colors …
19 Nov 2020
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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 the area, practicing architectural design. In this, the second in a series of conversations with Sw…
17 Nov 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 the north side is glass known as a single slant, and the frosted glass is layered and thatched simi…
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, posing the question “Isn’t simply existing on the earth a blessing in itself?” In the case of Mirror Cr…
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 to 1885, the year after a large fire broke out in the town, and was built in the machiya style with…
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 viewfinder presenting only what the creator wants us to see. This finite point of view is configured insi…
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 sprout from the earth, and flowers floating in a vase. The pigments in the sky at sunset, primary colors …
02 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 Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this region now known as Old Cairo is the oldest mosque on the …
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 achieved by soaking the raw silk in boiling water infused with chemicals to remove impurities such as prot…
08 Sep 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 sprout from the earth, and flowers floating in a vase. The pigments in the sky at sunset, primary colors …
02 Sep 2020
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
The Window Research Institute will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows together with the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art…
02 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 cultural assets that refers to any architectural element that can be placed in the bays between columns. Exa…
03 Aug 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 paper is affixed to kiln-heated iron plates to dry. Near the window stands a brick kiln, on top of wh…
20 Jul 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. Though most capitals are busy, Cairo seemed especially so. Just walking from my hotel out into the s…
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 (ETHZ), led by architect Momoyo Kaijima, conducted a series of interviews with architects based in Switz…
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 unique philosophical approach to the fields of architectural theory and history through his writings…
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 Baan, who has been photographing prominent architectural works by the world’s leading architect…
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 that tie spaces together with massive amounts of threads, she has used clothes, beds, suitcases, an…
15 Oct 2019
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Sensing Mother Earth: Petra, Jordan
During my trip, I saw many ruins in many countries. While these sites stood distant from our modern lives, the people who created them must not have looked too different from us. The questions of how …
02 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 visited. Many of the people I passed on the street were male, while bus seats for men and women are divide…
19 Feb 2020
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicated through our website or social media. https://www.japanhous…
03 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 framing device of the window—unable to break free from a rectilinear box or blank surface that demands…
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 man who seemed to be about the same age as Classy. After finishing a cigarette the three of us left th…
19 Jul 2017
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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 cuisine. In the city of Modena in northern Italy, it has been used as an anti-fatigue and digestive medi…
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 thousand years. Its tiered homes are built along the mountain’s steep face, and it seems to also …
03 Dec 2019
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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 arrived at a wetland area that was completely different from the field of rape blossoms I mentioned bef…
28 Jun 2017
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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 an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT from Nove…
01 Nov 2019
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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 called Kashgar. From there, I climbed a mountain for 7 hours aboard a bus that kicked up sand and dust al…
31 May 2017
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Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran
The bus that headed from northern to southern Iran passed once more through alien landscapes created by the desert. It’s as if one must pass through other planets before arriving in another city…
01 Oct 2019
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Boa Nova Restaurant
The windows of a lounge designed by Alvaro Siza in Porto, facing a rocky outcropping that looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean, covered on all sides by low-hanging eaves. Inside, a series of sofas and ta…
21 Aug 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 level was creating shadows by bricks, poplar, and a few branches and leaves as well as ventilating the …
19 Apr 2017
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Ch.2 Symbolic Realism
The pioneers (2) Talbot ,View of the Boulevards at Paris, 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reason for his trip was to teach a series of aspiring calotypi…
11 Jul 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 window and a lattice window. The bottom left window is comprised of a glass door, an iron grille and a …
07 Aug 2017
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Matsumoto Shin String Shop / Window of the Violin Studio
The Matsumoto Shin String Shop in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, is a violin studio founded in 1928, which provides services of making and repairing stringed instruments, such as violin and cello. Pr…
09 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 neighborhood of San Angel in Mexico City. While the house is closed to the street by means of a fence, wi…
24 Jul 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-e Soleymān. An archeological site centered around a massive crater lake, Takht-e Soleymān is said to…
03 Jul 2019
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017 Assisi / Rome / Tivoli / Helensburgh
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
12 Jul 2017
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusing on the relationship between public spaces and architectur…
25 Jun 2019
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Coffee & Cake
The window of a café in Myeongdong, Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on the top, and a showcase window with sliding glass doors on the bottom. An additional aluminum sheet fo…
03 Jul 2017
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Japan Through the Window Selected for Phase 3 of the Japan House Touring Exhibition Project
Following a strict selection process, the jury for the 3rd phase of the Japan House Touring Exhibition Project has chosen Japan Through the Window (working title) to be presented at the Japan House lo…
06 Jun 2019
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A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1
What kind of place is a desert below sea level? ,Turpan is located in the west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, an autonomous region of China. The city has long served people as an oasis of t…
08 Mar 2017
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016 Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
15 Jun 2017
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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 located about two hours by car from Genova. Because the valley is at a high elevation of 400-800m, the te…
28 May 2019
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Goddards
The windows in the saloon of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. A great arch encloses an alcove around the fireplace. Inside the alcove, three fixed windows are installe…
21 Jun 2017
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The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran
Outside my bus window, a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white, sharp and freshly shaved mountains colored bright red, and con…
08 May 2019
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Goddards
The windows in the dining room of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. Bay windows are repeated across the façade, creating a large aperture for the room, in which a long …
05 Jun 2017
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015 Assisi / Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
17 May 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 waiting for a memory or some inspiration to stimulate that first mark. What follows is an insight i…
26 Apr 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 cultural and educational projects including the Fashion Gallery of the Victoria & Albert Museum or C…
22 Apr 2019
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014 London / York
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
26 Apr 2017
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Halaszbastya
The window of a café in Budapest, Hungary. The Neo-Romanesque window is comprised of a double layer of arches around which tables and chairs are arranged. ,Halaszbastya Cafe / Budapest, Hangary / Cfb …
22 May 2017
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Ch.1 The Battle for Realism
The pioneers (1) Niépce and Daguerre ,“I made a dissolution of silver nitrate, much diluted by water, in the same proportions as those indicated in the report above on Photographie, to which I a…
28 Mar 2019
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Hanok in Jeonju
The window of a house in Jeonju Hanok Village, installed beneath the house’s large, overhanging eaves. A fixed window is installed on the inside. Outside, a pair of folding wooden screens fitted with …
08 May 2017
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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, for around 300 years. The current building was constructed during the Edo Period. A cover was late…
02 Apr 2019
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013 London / Assisi
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
12 Apr 2017
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Cinder Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasson probes the city for hidden and forgotten features of the …
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 1500-hectare ranch in the Hidaka region, which is Japanʼs largest producer of horses, this facility is …
19 Feb 2019
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012 London / London / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
29 Mar 2017
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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 generally shaped into a pointed arc, but upon closer inspection, I noticed that the corner arches were…
26 Jan 2017
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated from Cornell University, where he had majored in architectur…
17 Sep 2018
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Hill House
The living room bay window of the Hill House, designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A sofa and small bookshelf are built in in front of the window, creating a small space within the large …
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 innovative curriculum that embraced the abstract and constructivist trends of the time. Despite operati…
09 Jul 2021
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011 London / Brussels / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
15 Mar 2017
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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 being our first meeting. As he did, I discovered one home that seemed conspicuously old. I told him I wa…
07 Feb 2019
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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 its narrow front window as widely as possible, the sliding storm shutters are built in the form of la…
05 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 passed through the central Old City, I saw fields and houses scattered around. As I advanced the car fu…
28 Jan 2019
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Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2
I’ve come to realize that meeting with elders is the best way to learn about their village. Walking through a loess land of beautiful green trees, I continued to develop this method I’ve worked on thr…
05 Jan 2017
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Adobe Windows
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasson probes the city for hidden and forgotten features of the …
23 Jan 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 Mackintosh. Curved glass doors are lined along the terrace. Next to these sits a long dining room table. Th…
21 Mar 2017
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Breeders Stallion Station/Window of Stables
This stud farm was established in 1988 in Hidaka, Hokkaido Prefecture. As a stallion breeding facility, it can house up to 20 sires. In the stables, the stalls are arranged along one side of the aisle…
09 Jan 2019
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence, they developed a wide variety of housing styles, including the Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Vict…
16 Mar 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 through a town located outside of the scenic area. I saw a construction site for some new, large buil…
08 Nov 2016
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Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1
A square hole on dry, ocherous land. ,People live inside that hole. ,I stopped in on the village of Zhangcun in Sanmenxia City, Henan. It is located within the Loess Plateau (or the Huangtu Plateau), …
09 Dec 2016
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010 Paris / Rome / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
01 Mar 2017
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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 desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. And so I was surprised to learn that Iran, like Japan, had ar…
14 Dec 2018
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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’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glass doors; on the raised tatami flooring inside, staff receiv…
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 researched various threshold devices in architecture, and published about the topic under the title “Thr…
12 Dec 2018
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Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)
We arrive at the town of Wuzhen in northern Zhejiang after a two-hour bus ride from Shanghai. This is an area famous for its beautiful riverside district. Wuzhen is located near the Yangtze River Delt…
05 Oct 2016
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Library of Aveiro University
A window in the library of Aveiro University, designed by Alvaro Siza. One can look through the large, horizontal fixed window in the reading room out to another opening on the outside that extends ve…
06 Mar 2017
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Part 6: Proverbs Left to us by Laozi
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
05 Dec 2018
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009 Brussels / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
15 Feb 2017
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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (2)
My steps become lighter now that I’ve decided what I’ll look for. This is the beginning of a trip to search for bars of iron. Ten steps out and I find what I’m looking for. Immediately I discover a ho…
21 Sep 2016
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 3
Vatican Pavilion (Holy See Pavilion) Andrew Berman Curators: Francesco Dal Co (Architectural Historian, Professor at Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia, and Editor-in-Chief of CASABELLA), …
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 the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans in Louisiana, while Germans in Pennsylvania settled area…
28 Feb 2017
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Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect, Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology”, an extensive field work on windows around the world, since he joined Windowology in 2007. In the seco…
13 Nov 2018
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008 Paris / Paris / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
01 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 and have no glass, instead acting as louvers through which the wind can pass. ,Lim Residence House /K…
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/Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) has conducted “Window Behaviorology”, extensive site surveys o…
05 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, freespace indicates freeing space and actions, or a space for the act of placemaking. She describes archi…
04 Nov 2018
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
movie “The Birth Canal” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components between pillars. Specifically, the hashirama equipment i…
17 Jan 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, Lake Garda. Continue running north along the lake and you will arrive in Trentino. This is a province l…
23 Oct 2018
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Maison La Roche
The windows of Le Corbusier’s Maison la Roche. Inside the gallery, a long, curved strip window is installed above the curving ramp, and as one climbs the ramp, the outside scenery gradually comes to v…
08 Feb 2017
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Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)
Arriving in Shanghai I was surprised at how noisy it was. This is not a critique: Shanghai is the type of place that if you don’t assert yourself you won’t be listened to, whether at a restaurant or m…
06 Sep 2016
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Liquid Light
Held during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, the exhibition “Liquid Light” presents an adaptive reuse project in which the Barcelona-based architect duo Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats …
12 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 at my inn, I found it surprisingly warm. Yes, the temperature was low, but it nearly felt hot stand…
15 Oct 2018
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007 Assisi / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
18 Jan 2017
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Part 3 Shokatei at Katsura Imperial Villa
Members of the Imperial Family were the first to enjoy the luxury of tea, a valuable item at that time, before the art of the tea ceremony was established by Rikyu. They built tearooms called kizoku-g…
03 Oct 2018
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Mido Cafe
The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. Inside, tables and chairs are lined up along the windows. The upper parts are awning windows, while th…
24 Jan 2017
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Spaces In Between
Korean artist Do Ho Suh, who is perhaps best known for his translucent fabric recreations of real buildings, has continued to explore the relationship between existence and space through his work. In …
01 Oct 2018
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006 London / Foligno / London
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
15 Dec 2016
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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, 2018 in Venice, Italy. Appointed Directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who head Grafton A…
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 incorporate European styles. But the original American houses were actually built in accordance with…
19 Jan 2017
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005 Paris / Paris / Paris
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
30 Nov 2016
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Water Tanks in New York
Photographer Takashi Homma splices compelling shots of windows between his own photos and text. Second article of his “Windows and Photography” series presents water tanks as seen through a window in …
23 Jan 2017
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Mu’s Mansion Hotel
The windows of a hotel in Li Jiang. Three sets of double-casement windows are lined in a row, the upper part of which are latticed. The swastika-shaped lattice is called manji, believed to originate f…
10 Jan 2017
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Part 5: To China International Window City!
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
22 Aug 2018
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Part 2: Jo-an
It seems reasonable to assume that chanoyu, or the Japanese “Way of Tea” established by Sen no Rikyu, was spread and led by sengoku busho or warlords. It is clearly explained by the fact t…
10 Aug 2018
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Window Research Institute Re-Established as a General Incorporated Foundation
Contributing to the Development of Rich Windows and Architectural Culture On July 24, 2018, YKK AP Inc. (President: Hidemitsu Hori), a group company of the YKK Corporation (President: Hiroaki Otani), …
10 Aug 2018
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004 Paris / Amsterdam
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
12 Oct 2016
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Nando’s
The window of a restaurant in London. An alcove has been created in the thick wall that forms a part of the structure of the railway above. Inside the alcove are arranged tables and chairs, from which…
19 Dec 2016
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Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)
Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India, I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown, rocky mountains. I transferred between local busses while having the…
25 Jul 2018
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House for an Art Lover
A window of the restaurant in the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It combines a fixed window with casement windows in a large but thin, semi-circular steel fra…
26 Jul 2018
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You Make a Better Window Than a Door
Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it, the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasson probes the city for hidden and forgotten features of the …
18 Jul 2018
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003 London / York / Utrecht
We present the movies of windows all around the world.
28 Sep 2016
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
movie “THE CORALLUM” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components between pillars. Specifically, the hashirama equipment incl…
10 Jul 2018
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Sashu Chuzosho/Window of the Ironware Foundry
This is a Nanbu tekki (ironware) foundry in Oshu, Iwate, that mainly produces iron kettles. The various work areas are positioned along the windows, while the center of the space is normally left clea…
27 Jun 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 grate has been installed. There is no glass. Lounge chairs are set around the window. ,Bevis BawaR…
17 Oct 2016
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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 grapes raised under well-ventilated pergola. We can see architectures particular to each region with…
19 Jun 2018
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Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 3)
I walked back to the home in the small village in order to pick up the pants that had been sewn for me overnight. It seemed that there, the mother wove fabric from wool while the father turned that ma…
15 Jun 2018
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th, 2018), the Window Research Institute caught up with architect Momoyo Kaijim…
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 that takes the window as its theme. His Bowery Street (Day ⇔ Night) series that captures New York’s i…
12 Jul 2018
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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive ornaments at a time when rich ornamentation was a general trend in architecture. While its main prota…
17 May 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 of windows and glazing. Hernan Diaz Alonso, who is known as the director of the Southern California …
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 (May 26th-November 25th, 2018), the Window Research Institute caught up with Momoyo Kaijima, curato…
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 ultimately supported the realization of the complex architectural design that could only be developed wi…
27 Sep 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 station square, and art museums. He has also found international success through SANAA, a practice that …
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 worldwide. Having served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT from 2010 to 2014, he is n…
06 Sep 2016
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Fujiya/Window of the Souvenir Shop
This is a machiya (townhouse) that was built around 1830 in Narai, Nagano. The upper part of the opening facing the street is fitted with shitomido (top-hinged swinging shutters), while the lower part…
08 May 2018
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Iwanoi Shuzo/Window of the Sake Brewery
This is a sake (rice wine) brewery that was established in Morioka, Iwate, in 1917. Its kura (storehouse) was built later during the second quarter of the 20th century. The brewery was established by …
24 Aug 2018
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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 Japanese paper). The paper is made using a traditional technique known as hikinagashisuki. With thi…
26 Apr 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 Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in the mountains of North India, a part of the world surely once…
19 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 world’s largest collection of living plants. Even though I can still recall the many occasions up…
29 Jun 2016
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Hintermayer
The window of a bookshop in Vienna. Books and small goods are set into the thickness of the wall, turning the interior windowsill into a showcase for people on the outside. Outside, the windowsill act…
13 Apr 2018
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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 reason and in a different era are crossing. Walking the street, I can find buildings, cafes and shops…
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 western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
10 Apr 2018
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Mill Owner’s Association Building
Windows making up the wall of the eastern meeting room in the Mill Owner’s Association Building designed by Le Corbusier in Ahmedabad. The surface of the wall is divided into fixed windows and colorfu…
04 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 architects / architectural critic working at the forefront of the field. In this session, he spoke wi…
06 Sep 2016
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Architecture in Photography and Windows
Iwan Baan is a photographer whose work has taken him around the world, from Asia to Africa. Last year, he participated in a panel discussion on “Windows in Photographs” at the YKK AP Windo…
22 Mar 2018
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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 University, comprises five parts and introduces their window-making projects in various locations a…
20 Mar 2018
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and text. Part 1 of this series delivers five photos – one of which is never before seen – plus an exclusiv…
06 Sep 2016
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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 Kinnauris. It is a high-elevation region located in the northwest Himalayans, with the Tibet Autonomous Re…
14 Mar 2018
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Old Penang Guest House
The windows of a hotel in Georgetown on the island of Penang, Malaysia. This type of medium-rise residential building with a shop on the first floor is called a shophouse. The second floor juts out ov…
04 Jul 2016
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Hoi Truong Thong Nhat
A window of the Reunification Palace (built on the site of the former Norodom Palace) in Ho Chi Minh City. Three continuous floors of rotating windows in the double-skin façade work together for the a…
06 Mar 2018
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Takashi Homma + Alec Soth Thinking about Windows through Photography
Alec Soth, who has taken many photos of “windows” in various parts of the world, and Takashi Homma, who has speculated on the relationships between windows and photos. The two state-of-the-art photogr…
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 fabrication research in Japan. He hosted this interview series with experts working with architecture …
28 Jul 2016
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Pousadas Santa Maria do Bruno
A window in the corridor of an old monastery renovated as a hotel, in Bouro, Braga. It was designed by Souto de Moura. The slender steel sash of the single casement window contrasts with the thickness…
31 May 2016
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
Kikugetsutei is a teahouse located in the early modern-age daimyo (feudal lord) garden “Ritsurin Garden”, in Takamatsu city, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The building was used for having tea …
28 Oct 2015
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Via Altabella Toyshop
The window of a shop designed in Bologna by Carlo Scarpa. The window, which combines two circular shapes, is fixed to the façade from which it is carved with similarly shaped fasteners. The toyshop’s…
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 last they no longer could. I had not yet reached the lake, but before me sprawled a riverside community…
08 Feb 2018
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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 one of those things that remind me of the coming of the long winter season. This “summer time” is a s…
08 Mar 2016
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Office in Kuala Lumpur
The windows of an office building designed by Kevin Low on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Lounge spaces such as a smoking area sit in the space between the windows and concrete block composing the dou…
06 Feb 2018
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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project, a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC, propose prototypes of deployable architecture made of plywood veneer boards, a commonly us…
30 Jan 2018
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Osteria Baracco
The window of a restaurant in Porto Venere. The arched window is made of folding doors, the inside of which become display shelves for wine. Menu boards are fixed to the storm shutters, and the window…
23 Jan 2018
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fear and pleasure, and as theater
The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements. First arrondissement including the Louvre Museum is located approximately at the center of Paris. From there, the arrondissemens are numbered in a…
21 Dec 2015
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Paradise Road
The windows on the second floor of Paradise Road in Colombo. A set of outward-swinging windows sits within the Colonial-style gabled bay window, fitted with louvers allowing for ventilation. A table i…
23 May 2016
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Boundary Window
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
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 and close. One can enjoy the view of the street, while trees just outside of the window protect fro…
13 May 2016
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Sunny Loggia House
Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th Intern…
27 May 2016
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Boca Mina San Ramon
A window in a restaurant next to La Valenciana silver mine on the outskirts of Guanajuato. A cylinder is inserted into the thick wall—on the exterior, this becomes a planter and on the interior it bec…
07 May 2016
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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 who come to see the ancient ruins that lie there. After seeing some of the major spots in the ruins lik…
11 Jan 2018
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Speedo’s Cafe
A cafe’s window facing a sloping road near Bondi Beach in Sydney, fitted with a combination of sliding windows and fixed windows. A counter is built into the window, where one can sit watching the bea…
14 Apr 2016
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Fresca
The window of a restaurant in Mykonos, Greece. A set of table and chairs are arranged within the low-ceiling alcove around the window. A set of double-casement windows has been removed from its frame,…
19 Dec 2017
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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 evolving every moment, Paris has kept the skyline since it has been built. The scenery of the small windows…
17 Sep 2015
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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 “disorderliness”. Within the city, countless elements with various historical backgrounds coexist; their…
17 Sep 2015
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WINDOWSCAPE: An Exhibit for the Milano Salone
YKK AP and the internationally acclaimed architectural studio Atelier Bow-Wow put together a joint exhibit for the Milano Salone held in Italy from April 8 to April 24, 2014. In our exhibit, titled WI…
08 Apr 2014
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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 priests were entering and leaving the building one after another. The sight of people wearing the same…
07 Dec 2017
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Corleone
The window of a restaurant in Prague, where two small tables are arranged within the thickness of the wall. The alcove in which the window is located is raised two steps above the floor, and one can l…
22 Feb 2016
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Palma
The window of a flower shop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A wooden rain shutter is stored under the low-hanging eaves, and can be folded down onto a stand upon which plants are displayed. Insid…
05 Dec 2017
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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 windows are arranged. Outside, one can see a dense, green forest. ,Lunuganga 2 House/ Bentota, Sri Lanka …
01 Feb 2016
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IIM cafeteria
A window in the cafeteria of the Indian Institute of Management, designed in Ahmedabad by Louis Kahn. The large brick arch creates a buffer layer with the large glassless opening on the outside, and s…
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 installed at the border between an inside space and outside space. Through them people and things go in an…
15 Nov 2017
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Villa Le Lac
A continuous series of windows facing the water in the Villa Le Lac, designed by Le Corbusier for his mother. The eleven meter long windowsill projects into the room and can be decorated with a variet…
28 Nov 2014
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Window Bookcase (1)
This project started when we commissioned o+h, the young wife-and-husband team of architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, to design a bookcase for us. This is the first article in a series of entries…
17 Dec 2014
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Bevis Bawa’s Garden 3
The bay window of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa, in which three sets of combined casement windows and projected transom windows are arranged. An antique bench is placed near the wind…
06 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 through Photography” with his long-time acquaintance, architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. The session sta…
17 Dec 2014
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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 eastern Tibet. My destination was the Nyingma Buddhist sect’s Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, located in…
01 Nov 2017
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Willow Tearooms
The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twenty-two fixed and double-swing windows makes a slight curve, creating a large opening onto the street…
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 windows of the same size on either side, creating a set of four continuous windows. Planters are set b…
09 Oct 2015
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Sri Budhasa
The window of a building built next to the pool of a hotel in Bentota. A built-in bench protrudes from the building’s façade. The eaves stretch far out above the opening so rain cannot get in. ,Sri Bu…
24 Oct 2017
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Zigolini’s Café
A café window facing the street in Paddington, Sydney. The entire façade becomes a single opening, one side of which serves as an entrance. The other side is divided into five folding doors on the top…
28 Nov 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 through which people pass. In each of these examples, they are opened to allow some physical thing …
18 Oct 2017
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Hostal Vallarta
A window looking out onto an interior courtyard in a hotel in Guadalajara. The arch-shaped opening, made with inexpensive steel angles, is divided into a set of doors, a pair of pivoting casement wind…
28 Nov 2014
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Cafe in Suzhou
Windows on the second floor of a café in Suzhou. The waist-high double-lattice windows repeat along the façade, allowing for tables to be set against the wall. With one table per window, the tables fo…
28 Nov 2014
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Mumtaziar Preserved House
The windows of a house in Safranbolu. A built-in bench sits below the row of wooden single-hung windows. ,Mumtaziar Preserved House 2 Preserved House / Safranbolu, Turkey / Csb This article is an exce…
28 Nov 2014
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Suleymaniye Camii
The window of a mosque in Istanbul. The space around the window becomes an alcove, into which people can enter. On the interior, a wooden door allows for the opening and closing of the alcove space. O…
10 Oct 2017
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Coco Café
A window in a café in Hoi An. The free-form window sits in the wall of a building made out of coconut leaves. Dishes are lined up in front of the window, drying in the wind that passes through. ,Coco …
28 Nov 2014
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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 the day I arrived in Turpan while taking a bus to my nearby accommodations some 10 hours after an ex…
22 Mar 2017
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Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open
Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP’s Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Now Open ,A showcase of the knowledge and appeal of windows from all times an…
28 Sep 2017
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Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga
A window in the guesthouse of Lunuganga designed by Geoffrey Bawa. This bay window, raised on concrete pilotis, combines a series of small fixed windows with a row of wooden windows that open for vent…
28 Nov 2014
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Lou Kao Mansion
A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red, blue and white stained glass; above them is transom window that allows for the flow of air. A shallow…
07 Sep 2015
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Shizuka Yokomizo + Takashi Homma The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series, in which she has used photography to capture the distance between herself and others across windows. The artist’s personal exp…
26 Sep 2016
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Bianco
A showcase window in Napoli’s Centro Storico. Government policies regulate shops’ showcase windows along the street, resulting, to a certain extent, in a sense of unity. During business hours the larg…
28 Nov 2014
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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 counter is used as a table, with chairs lined up along it as the roof overhangs above. The shutter is le…
07 Sep 2015
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The Criminology of Windows
According to sociologist Georg Simmel, windows have two fundamental meanings. Firstly, they create a unilateral connection between the inside and outside. Secondly, they constitute a path that exists …
10 Dec 2019
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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 windows ,Featuring 27 participants from around the world, including architects, photographers, anthrop…
28 Sep 2017
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
The windows of a hotel and museum in Georgetown, on Penang Island. Originally the house of a Chinese merchant, the blue wall is based on ideas from feng shui. The wooden double-windows line the entire…
16 Jun 2015
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Turkisk House
The window of a house in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The window projects out like a terrace, fitted with a wooden handrail and screen, without any fittings to open and close. Inside, a large sof…
25 Sep 2017
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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 not be that the peoples of Scandinavia worship the light of the sun precisely because it fades so e…
20 Sep 2017
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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 words, you know what they are referring to, it is probably safe to say that you enjoy traveling. This i…
22 Aug 2019
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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 the space created by two layers of glass walls, which is treated as a greenhouse bathed in the eastern…
11 Sep 2017
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Societies and Fluctuations in Numbers of Windows—Some thoughts on the Question of “windows” During Times of Change
Societies with an Increase in Windows as the Modern The era of modernity was also the era of the window. As populations rose and production forces grew stronger, building environments trying to accomm…
25 Jul 2019
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Zhenchenglou
Windows of the Hakka walled villages, a traditional Chinese circular residential form. The entrance is fitted with a waist-high door, above which is a ceramic screen. Next to it is a window with a ver…
26 May 2015
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Spinnery Restaurant
A window in a restaurant in Bowness on Winderemere, which is famous for its lakes. A bench is built-in to the semi-circular window, called a bow window, in front of which are placed round tables. Stee…
26 May 2015
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Windows and the Invisible Light
It seems as if an ever-increasing window society took hold in Japan sometime after the Meiji period. The expansion of glass windows to general housing complexes also began around the Taisho and early …
17 Jun 2019
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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 reinforcement of a community with a focus on its rich heritage and micro-culture as well as creatio…
06 Sep 2017
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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 airplane, or in a café are always popular, and we cannot help but look out of window during a meeti…
24 May 2019
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Colonial Style House
The windows on the second floor of a Colonial Style house in Bentota. The gabled bay window includes glass windows that pivot on a central vertical axis. Chairs are set in front of the window. ,Coloni…
11 May 2015
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Blackwell
A window in the Main Hall of a house designed by Baillie Scott in Bowness on Windermere. The bay window is built next to the fireplace, complete with a built-in bench facing the fire. The lintel and s…
11 May 2015
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Camino Real Polamnco Mexio
The window of a guestroom in a hotel by Ricardo Legorreta. One can walk out into the large garden. ,Camino Real Polamnco Mexio 1 Hotel / Mexico City, Mexico / Aw This article is an excerpt from “Windo…
28 Apr 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 with glass, but with built-in folding countertops. Shop goods are crammed onto the counter and arou…
28 Apr 2015
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Brand & Advise Office
The windows of a design office in Lisbon’s old district of Chiado. Tall, thin windows that span two floors repeat across the façade. A mezzanine floor faces a double-heighted space in front of the win…
09 Mar 2015
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Window Bookcase (2)
This is the second entry on the Window Bookcase Project. We at the Window Research Institute asked o+h, the architectural practice of Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, to produce a furniture piece that ca…
01 Apr 2015
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YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window
10 Jul 2017
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Paradise Road Gallery Café
The windows of the Paradise Road Gallery Café in Colombo. Awnings and sudare hang between the round columns. On the other side, concrete benches are built into the spaces between the columns. ,Paradis…
09 Mar 2015
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Opening the Window and Greeting the World
“Windows are the most important element in architecture” says Michele De Lucchi, one of the most renowned architects / designers in Italy. He worked as a prominent figure in “Memphis” led by Ettore So…
03 Aug 2016
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Talk: Norihito Nakatani × Taro Igarashi at ISAIA
In September 2016, the Window Research Institute exhibited a booth at the International Symposium on Architectural Interchange in Asia (ISAIA) held at Tohoku University. Professor Norhihito Nakatani a…
20 Sep 2016
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Terunobu Fujimori “Holes”
Terunobu Fujimori has been producing highly original architecture that makes use of nature, such as wood, soil, and plants, as exemplified in his works including the Flying Mud Boat, Grass Roof, and M…
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 Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
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 Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Supported a Symposium “THE SAGA OF CONTINUOUS ARCHITECTURE”
30 May 2015
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in the work of many architects both young and old. Spaces can be enriched by adding color to their window…
18 Mar 2015
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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 freelance editor for honeyee.com and .fatale, two prominent online fashion magazines that define Toky…
25 Nov 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 western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
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 for the numerous projects that he has designed with the theme of creating a sense of affection. We as…
19 Aug 2013
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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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. Volume 1 in t…
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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In this final…
18 Dec 2018
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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 western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as …
14 Feb 2018
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Window and Passive Design
Prof. Kodama was spotlighted who has published a multiple number of projects centered on “passiveness,” attracting public notice. He eloquently spoke of the role and attractiveness and further the cha…
10 Jun 2013
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House of Itakura as a Core-House
Window Research Institute interviewed with Mr. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, representative of Atelier Bow-Wow about “House of Itakura” as a Core-House which is proposed as a minimal regional rehabilitation ho…
24 May 2013
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Concept of a Window
Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the results of human settlement survey and the concept of windows, …
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 their project on the theme of “sharing.” The talk is centered on the role and enchantment as well as a …
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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume 5, …
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 their project on the theme of “sharing.” The talk is centered on the role and enchantment as well as a …
24 May 2013
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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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume ４, …
11 Sep 2018
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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 western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
09 Jan 2018
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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally recognized projects and continues to propose new possibilities for architecture. We asked him about the…
14 Jan 2014
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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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. We will start…
28 Mar 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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume 3, …
30 Aug 2018
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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 explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. Following his…
27 Jun 2018