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Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Windows on Craft

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Window Workology, 2014

Windows and craftspeople act as partners in Japanese workplaces where work is conducted by hand. Windows take part in the manufacturing processes by bringing in or expelling elements of nature, such as light, wind, heat, smoke and steam. The properties of materials such as clay, wood, cloth and paper are transformed around such ‘working windows’, and craftspeople hone their sensitivity and skills by acutely sensing these changes through their everyday work. Windows hence establish links between various things and their behaviours, and in doing so, they enable us to understand the ecologies that surround us.

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Tsukamoto Yoshiharu Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology / Atelier Bow-Wow

Born 1965 in Kanagawa, Japan. Graduated from the architecture department at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville from 1987 to 1988. Co-founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. Received a masterʼs and doctorate (Engineering) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Associate professor at the institute from 2000. Professor since 2015. Has held teaching positions at Harvard University (2003, 2007, 2016); University of California, Los Angeles (2007, 2008); Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011–2012); Barcelona Institute of Architecture (2011); Cornell University (2012); and Delft University of Technology (2015).