1944年に浜口隆一が新建築に発表した「日本国民建築様式の問題」はなんと5万字もあるのだがほとんどは西洋建築の建築意欲について書かれている。それはほぼウィトルウィウスに遡り、西洋は柱を物質的に構築的に作った。しかるに間面法で建築をとらえた日本は柱の間で建築を把握したのだがら相対的に空間的だと言う結論に至る。間面法だけが日本建築の建築意欲という理解は釈然としない。Ryuichi Hamaguchi’s 1944 publication “The Problem of Japanese National Architectural Styles” in Shinkenchiku has a whopping 50,000 characters. Still, about 40,000 characters are about the will to build Western architecture. It returns roughly to Vitruvius, and the West made the pillars materially constructive. On the other hand, Japan, which grasps architecture by the method of frontage, concludes that it is relatively spatial because it grabs architecture between pillars. It is not clear that this is only the front method that is the architectural motivation of Japanese architecture.

研究室OBOG、田中、松原、夫婦建築家ユニット、マシュー建築設計事務所が設計した上池袋のメディウムを拝見。ガラス屋さんの使わない倉庫が立教大学を引退した先生の蔵書を置くパブリックスペースに変身した。Laboratory OBOG, Tanaka, Matsubara, husband and wife architect unit, Matthew Architects designed the Kami-Ikebukuro medium. A warehouse not used by a glass shop has been transformed into a public space for the library of a professor who retired from Rikkyo University.

大室君の母の家に行ったら青木さんと中山さんと佐河君がいた帰ろうとしたら能作さんが来た。家型ではなかった。When I went to Mr. Omuro’s mother’s house, Mr. Aoki, Mr. Nakayama, and Mr. Sagawa were there. When I was about to leave, Mr. Nousaku came. It wasn’t the gable-type house.

ヴァーティカルレビューのなかで僕がいいと思った案は二つあった。一つは作った人の顔が見える自己表出が感じられるもの。もう一つは形のスタディが徹底して模型をきちんと作っていたもの（下）。There were two proposals that I thought were good in the vertical review. One is that you can see the face of the person who made it, and you can feel the self-expression. The other is that the study of the shape was thorough and the model was made properly.