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ちょっと先だが9月末に売り出す『〈世界〉としての窓』は平瀬有人さんとの共著。二人は窓に興味がある。僕の最初の作品集のタイトル『フレームとしての建築』のフレームとはほぼ窓のことである。平瀬さんの博士論文のテーマもフレーミング。いつかフレーム（窓）の本を出そうねと5年くらい前から話していたが、昨年の冬に本当にやろうと決意して二人で構想を練り書き上げた。建築の話は半分くらいで、演劇、映画、絵画、漫画、都市、と話は広がり、最後は哲学的考察へと進む。建築プロパーの編集者の方だと書けないような内容が可能だったのは編集の八尾さんがそもそも大学の卒論がヴィットゲンシュタインだったという哲学者だったからでもある。
最近中公新書で『言語の本質』という本が好評で読んでみると今井むつみさんと秋田喜美さんという二人著者による内容の幅の広さがお互いを補填しあっているからだと感じた。本書も一人では書けない幅の広さがきっと建築以外の方にも届くのではないかと期待している。
（Amazonでの予約受付はもう少し先）
Window as a ‘World'”, which will be released at the end of September, is co-authored with Yujin Hirase. Both of us are interested in windows. The title of my first book, “Architecture as a Frame,” refers almost entirely to windows. Hirase’s doctoral dissertation also focused on framing. We had been talking about publishing a book on frames (windows) for about five years, and last winter we decided to make it a reality, and together we came up with the idea and wrote the book. About half of the book is about architecture, and the conversation expands to include theater, film, painting, manga, cities, and finally, philosophical considerations. The reason we were able to write something that a professional architecture editor would not have been able to do is that the editor, Mr. Yao, is a philosopher whose graduation thesis at university was on Wittgenstein.
Recently, I read a book titled “The Essence of Language” published by Chuko Shinsho, which was well received. I felt that the wide range of content by the two authors, Mutsumi Imai and Yoshimi Akita, complemented each other. I have high expectations that this book, too, will reach people outside the field of architecture because of its breadth of content that cannot be written by a single author.
(Pre-orders on Amazon will be available in a little while.)