篠原一男の博士論文

国会図書館にもなかった篠原一男の博士論文をやっと手に入れた。機中で読んだ。結論は３つあって、一番有名なのは
「日本建築の構成は分割、西欧の建築の構成は連結」
二つ目は
「屋根と基壇、周り縁、床高と屋根高の関係性」
三つ目は
「日本建築には正面性がある」
である。かなり膨大な資料(この資料選択は先輩だった平井先生によったそうだが、平井先生無くしてこの論文はできなかだろうと想像される)

正直言うと、篠原先生特有の主観性の強い論理展開かと思ったが、読んで十分納得させられた。これ書籍化したらかなり素晴らしい日本建築論だと思った。歴史的ではないけれど。

I finally got Kazuo Shinohara’s doctoral dissertation, which was not even in the National Diet Library. I read on the plane. There are three conclusions, the most famous being
“The composition of Japanese architecture is division, the composition of Western architecture is connection”
The second is
“Relationship between roof and base, surrounding edge, floor height and roof height”
the third is
“Japanese architecture has frontality”
Quite a large amount of materials (It says that this material was selected by Profesor Hirai, who was his senior, but I imagine that this paper would not have been possible without Mr. Hirai.)

To be honest, I thought it was a logical development with strong subjectivity peculiar to Professor Shinohara, but after reading it, I was fully convinced. I thought that this was a pretty wonderful theory of Japanese architecture when it was made into a book. not historical though.