January 4th will be the beginning of work. I have also a seminar from today. It is troublesome to start the engine that was turned off at the end of the last year. I wish I could have a good time reading books and thinking at will for another week without being overwhelmed by zooming, but that doesn’t happen. Actually, I’ve been idling by sending necessary emails from yesterday so that the engine will work today. I already got a reply from Osamu in Czech Republic to do Workshop Zoom. Gradually my head goes into work mode.
Lee Ufan says that contemporary sculpture (and perhaps his sculpture) is like Korean food. He says that Korean food has many small plates, and you can put whatever you like into your mouth and enjoy your taste in your mouth. Contemporary sculpture, he says, can be represented in any way the viewer likes. He says that the food and the statue that force you to enjoy being wrong. If this way of art can maintain the strength of expression, it must be excellent. I think it is the same with architecture. The architecture you haven’t noticed suddenly get into your eyes, and it sometimes is very nice if you look at it closely
The nephew I met while visiting the grave worked at home until New Year’s Eve in the same design business as I do, and my brother was amazed that “your industry is strange.” My sister-in-law advised him “If he didn’t do what he was told,” and my nephew said, “Then I wouldn’t be assigned a job.” My daughter is in the fashion industry, she seems to be busy too. Applied arts industries such as architecture and fashion can’t be helped to some extent, but the contradiction becomes apparent as the size of the organization grows. Because the cost of maintaining the organization will increase.
Tadanori Yokoo says that his encounter with Yukio Mishima determined his life. I have had a few encounters like that, but if I had to pick one, I would be going to university and met Reiko Tomita (Zou Sekkei Shudan), a senior in my high school. Another classmate who wanted to study architecture and I visited her and asked her, “Where is a good place to study architecture? Mr. Tomita said in unison with Mr. Otake, “It’s good to go to a place where current architects are teaching.” Of course, I didn’t know any of the names, but Kazuo Shinohara’s name was the only one I could remember. It was because they made a negative comment: “Kazuo Shinohara is a special kind of architect, and we disapprove of him. That was the moment when my path in architecture was dimly defined. Looking back, I feel strange that Zou advised me to go to an architect who was the opposite of Zou. But it was not by chance that I decided to go to Charles Moore while still at Shinohara Laboratory. It was also a coincidence that when I returned to Japan, I studied with Dr. Sakamoto on a whim of Dr. Shinohara. These encounters with these three men, born of chance and necessity, were decisive for a large part of my architectural thinking. In this sense, my first encounter was with Mr. Tomita, who was introduced to me by my homeroom teacher, so if we go back to the beginning, we can say that my encounter with my high school teacher decided my life.
おふくろの墓で親父、兄家族たちと新年の挨拶。親父は豊島園と同じ年。そろそろ私を私とわからなくなったか?
New Year’s greetings with my father and brother’s family at the grave of my mother. My father is the same year as Toshimaen. Did you lose track of me?
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