神楽坂で数少ない外食する店、フレンチならデジーノ、今日はイタリアン、アルベラータ。娘と3人で食べる予定が来られなくなり、19日早い結婚記念日ということにした。ティーカップに取っ手がないのが素敵。One of the few places to eat out in Kagurazaka is Desino for French, and Albertata for Italian today. My plan to have dinner with our daughter was no longer available, so we decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary 19 days early. I love that tea cup doesn’t have a hundle.

立て続けに本出しているので何時書いているのかとよく聞かれる。昨日もある雑誌の編集長にどうやって書いてるのかと聞かれ、書くのを習慣にしていると答えた。ご飯を食べるように欠かさなければ少しずつだけど前に進む。格は違うが村上春樹も毎日決まった量を地道に書き続けると聞き真似している。大学で教えて設計をしてその合間に書くのは大変ですねと言われたけど、忙しくてもご飯は食べるから同じようなことだと思う。Since I have published many books in quick succession, people often ask me when I write. I was asked yesterday by the editor-in-chief of a magazine how I write, and I answered that I make it a habit. If you don’t miss a meal, like eating a meal, you will move forward little by little. Although on a different level, I have heard that Haruki Murakami also writes a fixed amount of paper every day, which I imitate. I’ve been told that it’s hard to teach at university, design, and then write in between, but I think it’s the same thing because even when you’re busy, you still eat.

坂牛研究室のクリスマスエスキスチェックは今年は12月3日。去年同様、午前中にOBOGの最近の仕事。午後、4年M2のプレゼン、クリティック、夕方カクテル。諸君！！手帳に書いておいて！！金町まで遠いけれど後輩たちとついでに先生の顔も見においで！！もう見れなくなるからね。The Sakaushi Laboratory will hold a Christmas Esquis check on December 3rd this year. Like last year, in the morning, OBOG will report their current works; in the afternoon, we will have 4th year M2 design, paper presentation, critique, and dinner in the evening. OBOGs, please write it down in your notebook. Although it’s a long way to Kanamachi, please come to see the faces of our juniors and teachers for the first time in a while because you can’t see it anymore.

お茶の水にある建築模型材料の老舗レモンは創業100年。半世紀近く卒業設計展通称レモン展を運営。古澤大輔さんとレモン展の始まりとこれからと題して対談をした。ちょっと長いけれど聞き流してください。

Lemon, a long-established architectural model materials company in Ochanomizu, has been in business for 100 years. It has been running the Graduation Design Exhibition, known as the Lemon Exhibition, for nearly half a century. I talked with Daisuke Furusawa about the beginning and future of the lemon exhibition. It’s a little long, but please listen to it.

夏に葉が一枚もなくなったクレマチスが復活。金柑も5つくらい実がついた。The clematis that lost all its leaves in the summer is coming back. The kumquats also had about 5 fruits.

高橋晶子さんは京大時代課題をやると常に真ん中あたりにヴォイドができた。そのころ雑誌で自分と同じような設計をする人がいることを知った。それが篠原一男であり東工大の大学院を受験した。しかし修士は設計に参加することが許されず、2年経って博士に入り晴れて書いた最初の設計図は浮世絵美術館の家具の原寸図だった。When Akiko Takahashi did assignments during her time at Kyoto University, there was always a void in the middle. Around that time, she learned from a magazine that there was a people who designed similar designs to her. That person was Kazuo Shinohara, and she applied to graduate school at Tokyo Institute of Technology. However, the master student was not allowed to participate in the design, and after two years, she entered the doctoral program and her first blueprint, which she happily drew, was a full-scale drawing of furniture for the Ukiyo-e Museum.

高橋晶子さんに2時間お話を聞きました。1980年に京都大学から来られて1982年に博士課程に入ってやっと設計チームに入り、ハウスイン横浜、花山の病院、そして篠原アトリエに移って、熊本の警察署を担当されました。僕も同時代を生きていましたが篠原先生の知らない世界の話をたくさん聞きました。
I spoke with Akiko Takahashi for two hours.She came from Kyoto University in 1980, entered the doctoral program in 1982, and finally joined the design team. She was in charge of House Inn Yokohama, Hanayama Hospital, and moved to Shinohara Atelier and was in charge of the Kumamoto Police Station. I also lived in the same age then and heard many stories about the world unknown to Mr. Shinohara.