Research & Works
Hara Hiroshi + Taro Igarashi Laboratory, Tohoku University

Windows on Stories

Hara Hiroshi, Installation view from “Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition” at Spiral Garden, 2017, ©Sohei Oya / Nakasa & Partners Inc.

Windows drive stories. Various things happen around them; they are where people meet, exchange gazes and engage in conversation. In the world of fiction, windows often stimulate our imaginations, functioning, for example, as entrances to other worlds. Stories can also tell us what people who are not architects think about windows. In this section, you can see how windows are depicted in stories mainly from Japan. Enjoy the magical power of the architecture of the window.

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Hara Hiroshi Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo / Hiroshi Hara + Atelier Φ

Born 1936 in Kanagawa, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1959. Completed the doctoral program at the university in 1964. Doctor of Engineering. Associate professor of architecture at Toyo University from 1964. Associate professor at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo from 1969. Professor from 1982. Named a professor emeritus upon retiring in 1997. Conducted design work in partnership with Atelier Φ from 1970 to 1998. Renamed the firm Hiroshi Hara + Atelier Φ in 1999. Named a profesor ad honorem at the University of the Republic in Uruguay in 2001.