Shop window
A window on a building’s facade for showcasing merchandise and attracting customers. Its layout varies by product type, with common styles including flat, recessed, and arcade. Also called store window or display window.
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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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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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Shoei Yoh: Architecture of Light, the Real, and Monism
Architectural historian Yoshitake Doi, who began teaching in Kyushu in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand as Fukuoka-based Shoei Yoh completed numerous works one after another, explores the essence of …
20 Dec 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 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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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 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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The Nordic Window Window Behaviorology in Nordic Architecture
05 Apr 2024
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Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes
09 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows
29 Nov 2019
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition The Window (working title), which will be hosted by the show’s co-organizers, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT; Tokyo…
27 Nov 2018
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7, 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma, who has explored the relationship between photos and windows to…
06 Sep 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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pleasure of Opening Windows
Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows”, the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC, introduces a project of making windows at an elementary school in the Democratic Repub…
21 Dec 2017
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WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition
The Tokyo Midtown Design Hub Special Exhibition titled WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition—The Research Behind the Milano Salone Exhibit was held at the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub from May 31 to June …
23 Apr 2014
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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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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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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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Window Embracing the Hometown
Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows”, the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC, introduces a project of making a window for a kominka (old folk house) in a small town…
08 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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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary
26 Apr 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 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