NYジャパンソサエティの芸術監督の塩谷さんは私と配偶者の中学の同級生。ニューヨークから出張で久しぶりに我が家へ。彼女たちは芸大美大に進み、ダンス、書、私は建築。3人の会話は楽しいね。Ms. Shioya, the art director of NY Japan Society, is a classmate of me and my spouse. She went to my home after a long absence on a business trip from New York. They proceeded to Geidai and art school dance, calligraphy I am architecture. The conversation between the three is fun.

JIAマガジン2月15日号は先ほど編集後記を送り校了。今月の「建築の集中表現としての住宅」は塩崎大伸、小林佐絵子の自邸である。表紙は彼らがいつも行う出来上がった建物に浮き出る二次元のコンポジションの確認作業の結果である。不思議、不思議、、、I just sent the editorial postscript for the February 15th issue of JIA Magazine and finished it. This month's ``House as an Intensive Expression of Architecture'' is the home of Taishin Shiozaki and Saeko Kobayashi. The cover is the result of the work they always do to confirm the two-dimensional composition that stands out on the finished building. strange, strange...

富士レークホテルは河口湖岸に接する老舗ホテル。湖を一望するロビーラウンジは素敵だ。最上階では元マキシムのシェフが本科的フレンチを提供してきた。コロナ収束後の海外客数の増加はこの辺りは特に顕著。河口湖駅はもとより、ホテル内も日本人は5%たらずか？Fuji Lake Hotel is a long-established hotel adjacent to the shore of Lake Kawaguchi. The lobby lounge overlooking the lake is wonderful. On the top floor, you can taste authentic French cuisine with the help of a former Maxim chef. The increase in the number of overseas customers after the coronavirus subsides is especially noticeable in this area. Not only at Kawaguchiko Station but also in the hotel, only 5% of the people are Japanese.

新宿でランチ買って河口湖に出張。珍しく打ち合わせして一泊の予定。大寒波の影響はあるのかな？I bought a lunch in Shinjuku and will go to Lake Kawaguchi. Unusually we will have a meeting for one night. Is there an influence of the big cold wave?

年度末になるとやってくる支払い調書。そんなに働いたのか？既に引かれているのに、合計するとさらに税金で消えていく。Payment record that comes at the end of the year. Did I work so much? Even though it has already been drawn, it will disappear with tax even more.

早稲田の授業はいつも出席者20人くらいなのだが、最後の授業に40人近く来て驚いた。レポートを今日までにメールしてと言ったら沢山くるので事務に履修者名簿送ってもらったら60人近くいた。Classes at Waseda usually have around 20 people in attendance, but I was surprised to see nearly 40 people in the last class. When I asked them to email me their reports by today, I received a lot of them, so I asked the office staff to send me a list of students, and there were nearly 60 people.

兄から母方の家系図を作ったと送ってきた。三輪家のオリジンは青森と思っていたが、高祖父は金沢であった。曽祖父母が青森で一心亭と言う料亭を創業し、祖母がそこで女将をしている姿は知っている。母はそれを継ぐ気がなく、父と東京に駆け落ちして大学に行ったのだった。 My brother sent me a message that he had created a maternal family tree. I thought the Miwa family originated in Aomori, but my great-great-grandfather was in Kanazawa. I know that my great-grandparents founded a restaurant called Isshin-tei in Aomori, and that my grandmother was the proprietress there. My mother had no desire to carry on, so she eloped with my father to Tokyo and went to Seigaku.

ルネサンスを社会史的に読む本と美術史的に読む本はそれぞれあるが、両方の流れを一度に睨み、されど簡潔に書かれた本はこれが初めてでとても面白かった。おすすめです。十字軍が契機となり、大航海時代がその落日を決定したということがよく分かりました。There are books that read the Renaissance in terms of social history and art history respectively but this is the first book that looks at both streams at once, yet in a concise manner, and I found it very interesting. I recommend it. I could clearly see that the Crusades were the catalyst and the Age of Exploration was the downfall.

理科大社会人コース卒計卒論発表会でした。段々レベルが上がるのがよく分かる。Yesterday, there was a graduation design and graduation thesis on the adult course of the Tokyo University of Science Department of Architecture. You can see that the level gradually rises.

アナウンサーがハードワークで病むと話題だが、身近なところで編集者のハードワークもかなりのもの。いっしょに仕事している２人が体調を崩し、1人か連絡取れなくなり、1人が人事異動などで担当本が20冊増えたと泣いていた。彼らに比べたら僕など呑気に仕事してるなと思う。 It is a hot topic that an announcer is sick due to hard work, but the editor's hard work is also considerable. Two people who worked together with me have been sick, couldn't contact one person, and one of them was crying that the number of books he has to edit have increased by 20 due to personnel changes. I feel relieved that I don't work like them.

今年のTOTO建築家カレンダーは篠原一男である。カレンダーはかけたことないが、今年だけはかけよう。This year's TOTO architect calendar is Kazuo Shinohara. I hate the calendar and have never hung it. But only this year I decided to hang it on the wall.

千葉さんに新著をいただいた。ページをめくると今から6年前に拙宅について書いてくれた「身体性と他者性」という文章が載っていた。拙宅は内臓のようだという表現が的確で、あなたの家はどんな家と聞かれると「内臓みたいと千葉さんに言われた」と言うようになった。I received a new book from Mr. Chiba. When I turned the page, I saw an article written about my house six years ago called ``Physicality and Otherness.'' It is accurate to say that my house looks like an internal organ, and when asked what kind of house your house is, I will say, ``Mr. Chiba told me that it looks like an internal organ.''

カズ曰く •戻りたい過去はありません。過去は過去ですから。 •常に何かに挑戦していれば輝きは失われない。 • いいことばかりじゃなかった。でも、大事なのはそこで努力をやめないこと。 同じ気持ち Kazu says • There is no past you want to return. The past is the past. • If you always challenge something, your shine will not be lost. • I have not always experienced just good. But the important thing is not to stop making an effort there. Same feeling