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Dec 2021

字のアート

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by 卓 坂牛

知的障害者のアートを見た。書家の配偶者としては、字の作品が興味をそそる。I saw the art of people with intellectual disabilities. As a calligrapher’s spouse, the works of writing are intriguing.

黄色

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by 卓 坂牛

黄色が好きで友人宅のカーテンはユザワヤで布買って四角い穴開けてスタッフが縫った。だいぶ色褪せた。その後も黄色はクライアントと気が合えばよく使う。I like yellow and bought a cloth at Yuzawaya for the curtain of my friend’s house, made a square hole and had staff sew. It has faded a lot. After that, I often use yellow if I get along with the client.

短く

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by 卓 坂牛

新聞社の友の家(連窓の家＃2)にお邪魔して、執筆中の本のタイトルにアドバイスをもらう。短く、漢字を減らすよう言われる。

Visit a house of a friend of mine who works at a newspaper company ( house with ribbon window 2) and get advice on the title of the book I am writing. Told to make it short and to reduce Chinese characters.

 

香山先生

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by 卓 坂牛
今月の「建築が生まれる時」は香山壽夫先生が半世紀近く前に設計された東大工学部６号館の屋上増築のあの４分の１ボールトのスケッチである。インタビューでは学生時代からお話を聞き、当時の名教授陣が皆自信喪失に見えたという証言にびっくりした。そしてペンシルバニア大学から東大に戻り東大移転という話に反対して既存のキャンパスの存続をかけてリノベーション案を作り続け、その結果今の本郷キャンパスがあるのだなと確認した。社会は変化するものだが変化のための変化に意味はなく、変化は結果であるという言葉が印象的であった。
This month’s “When Architecture is Born” is a quarter vault sketch of the rooftop addition to the University of Tokyo’s Engineering Building No. 6. It was designed by Hisao Kayama nearly half a century ago. In the interview, I heard his story from his student days and was surprised to listen to his testimony that all the famous professors at the time seemed to have lost confidence in them. After returning to the University of Tokyo from the University of Pennsylvania, he opposed relocating the University of Tokyo. He continued to make renovation plans for the survival of the existing campus. As a result, the Hongo campus is here today. I was impressed by his words that society changes, but change for the sake of change is meaningless, and change is the result.

落合という人

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by 卓 坂牛

落合の人の育て方を見ていると驚く。3年で和田のバッティングを1から変えた。3年で優秀な建築家を育てられなければクビだと言われたら今と同じことをしているのだろうか？とちょっと考えてしまう。落合は毎晩睡眠薬を飲んでいた時期があったが、確かにそんな気持ちになる時もあるけれど実行したことはない。

I’m surprised to see how Ochiai raised people. He changed Wada’s batting for ３years. If I was told that I would be fired if I couldn’t raise a good architect in three years, would I be doing the same thing as I am now? I think for a moment. Ochiai used to take sleeping pills every night, and I also certainly feels that way, but I never did it.

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