Both spouse and I went for a walk to Ookuma memorial hall of Waseda university.

ティモシー・モートン著、篠原雅武訳『自然なきエコロジーー来たる環境哲学に向けて』以文社2018を読んだ。タフな本だが、本質は明確なようで、自然の美化を非難し、ありのままの自然を受け入れよというもの。 彼はそれをダーティなエコロジーと呼ぶ。 この言葉は、文学や建築におけるダーティリアリズムと同じ響きを持つ。 彼の思想は他の他のooo(オブジェクト指向オン存在論)の哲学者たちの考え同様リアルとは何かを僕らに示してくれているように思う。
I read Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics 2007 by Timothy Morton. Although this is a tough book, the essence seems clear, which is a condemn of beautification of nature, and acceptance of nature as it is. He called it a dirty ecology. This term sounds like dirty realism in literature and architecture. His thought seems to bring us what the reality is. This thinking is similar to those of other OOO(object-oriented ontology) philosophers.

最近英語を先に書いてそれを翻訳ソフトで日本語にしている。そうすると流石にそのまま使えないことがわかる。妙にかしこまった日本語になってしまう。その原因は僕の書いた英語が悪い場合もあるが、多くは翻訳ソフトの限界が原因である。翻訳ソフトで英語を作るととそういうことが起こるわけでこればかりはまだ時間が必要なのだろう。

Lately, I’ve been writing English first and then translating it into Japanese using translation software. If you do so, you can’t use it as it is. It becomes strangely strained Japanese. In some cases, my English is not good, but in many cases, it is due to the limitations of the translation software. That’s what happens when you create English with translation software, so it’s going to take some time.

Reading seminary in the Sakaushi laboratory has two tables. One is about architecture, the other one is not. Yesterday’s architecture table was Hiroshi Matsukuma’s “The Eve of Architecture,” and the non-architecture table was Hiroyuki Horihata’s “Clothes of Words.” Last year we did these two tables in one room, one here and one there, but this year we’re doing them in the breakout room at ZOOM. In one place, there is the person in charge of the regime and the other person in charge of discussion moderating. I didn’t get a sneak peek yesterday due to another ZOOM conference, but I’ll go to see it next week.
坂牛研輪読は建築の本のテーブルと建築以外の本のテーブルがあり、昨日の建築テーブルは松隈洋『建築の前夜』、建築外テーブルは堀畑裕之『言葉の服』である。去年まではこの二つのテーブルは一つの部屋のあっちとこっちでやっていたが今年はzoomのブレイクアウトルームで行う。今年からはレジメ担当とそのあとのディスカッション司会を別にして議論している。昨日は別のzoom 会議で覗けなかったが来週は見に行こう。

赤城神社のそばにアトリエコウタというとても小さなケーキ屋がある。とてもいい。小さくて体に合っている。ピスタチオと果物。昨日の3時。

Five or six years after I joined Nikken, my manager told me to organize a monthly study session and an architectural tour in turn. So, I invited a lecturer to give a lecture. Since it was the year of the completion of Ryoma Memorial Hall, we asked Ms. Takahashi. We asked Mr. Sei Takeyama, who built OXY in the previous year and asked Ms. Sejima, who built Saishunkan Hall in the last year. Because they are young and unknown among the old architects of Nikkenthere, about 2-30 people were listening to it. Because of the bubble economy, my boss and I took our guests to eat tempura at Tenko in Kagurazaka and drove them back by car. After that, the study meeting became the whole of Nikken, and Bernard Tschumi and Emilio Ambers came, and Mr. Hayashi did the last one.

日建に入社して5、6年たち、結崎部長から「毎月勉強会と建築見学会を交互にやってくれ」と言われた。そこで講演会を企画し、龍馬記念館が完成した年だったので、最初は高橋さんをお呼びした。次に、前年にOXYを建てた竹山聖さん、更に、前年に再春館ホールができた妹島さんという順でお願いした。彼らはその頃まだ若く日建のおじさん建築家の間では無名で、2～30人くらいしか聞いていなかった（今思えばもったい無い）。バブルのせいもあって、終わると神楽坂天幸で天ぷらを食べ、ハイヤーでお送りした。その後、勉強会は日建規模になり、ベルナール・チュミやエミリオ・アンバースが来てくれて、最後は林さんで終了した。

The number of fourth-year students of the daytime, which was five last year, increased to 11 this year, and all of them hoped for further education when I conducted a survey. None of them want to find jobs. Is ‘it’s caused by corona? However, since the quota of graduate students is 7, not all of them could enter. I will zoom interview them first.

昨年5名だった昼間部の４年生が今年は11名となり、進学調査をすると全員進学希望だった。就職希望が0はコロナのせい？？しかし定員は7名なので全員は行けない。zoomインタビューをまずすることにした。

今日は最初の授業日。なんとかうまくいった。輪読、1時間設計の初日。これもなんとかなり一安心。食後配偶者と将棋の駒で遊ぶ。

Today was the first day of the semester in TUS. We managed to do it with my colleague Kayanoki through Zoom. Two seminaries of reading and one-hour design were also successful. I felt easy. I played with Koma of Shogi after dinner.

坂牛研ゼミは毎年、月曜日の論文ゼミと金曜日の輪読ゼミと１時間設計ゼミがある。zoomで１時間設計できるかなあと思ったが、zoomで課題出して、１時間後にgoogle driveにアップさせる方式でうまくできた。今日は９坪住宅に５坪増築というテーマである。

A seminary in Skaushi laboratory consists of three different ones, which are one for thesis, one for reading and one for one-hour design. I wondered if we could make the latter two through zoom, but we did it. I gage the issue by zoom, and they drew for one hour and uploaded them to google drive. The topic today was to add 15squaremeters to the house of the 30 square meters by Masada.

Infection clinicians in the U.S. have pointed out that the situation in Norway, which has urban blockades, and Sweden, which does not, are almost identical in terms of infection, and that there is a vast difference in economic conditions.
They point out the fallacy in the logic of the pundits who support the blockade with their descriptive arguments without clinical experience. Of course, they will also give you a warning and various measures, but they assure you that there is no need for a complete blockade or stay home.
The doctoral dissertation written by the American educator I’m currently reviewing raises the issue of the disconnect between architectural practice and logic. I believe that practice and philosophy must always run in parallel. Therefore it is necessary to listen to both the opinion of the clinician and that of the non-clinical researcher.