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私の場合、建築の情報を収集するのは、もっぱら、図書館よりむしろ古書店や大型書店であり、その習慣は現在でも続いています。これも恩師からの教えだと記憶していますが、本の購入は将来への投資だと考え、図書館で借りるよりも、生活費を切り詰めてでも購入することにしています。 また、その恩師が座右の銘として私たち学生に語っていた言葉も、建築の情報収集に臨む上で大切だと思いますので、以下に紹介します。それは、アメリカの建築史家・教育者であるターピン・バニスター（Turpin Bannister）の言葉です。建築家にとって歴史を学ぶ意味合いを語っています。 a）歴史は、建築家の研究室である b）歴史は、社会基盤となる技術をゆっくりと豊かにする役目をもつ c）歴史は、知見を広めてくれる d）歴史は、建築家を偉大な仕事へと導く e）歴史は、建築家に深さを与える どうでしょうか。何とも含蓄のある言葉ではありませんか。[53ページ] ↗
Every girl who aspires ultimately to outfit her own home should assemble a library on architectural styles and on furniture both traditional and modern. As few brides can buy expensively illustrated volumes and household equipment simultaneously, a girl should begin asking parents for books early in life, probably while still in the primary grades... ↗
For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it "Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath. ↗
History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the builders have had the better of it. The miracles they accomplished in stone are still standing and still beautiful, even with the disintegration of so many centuries on them, but the battlefields where great warriors died are so encroached upon by modern villas and so befouled by the rotting remains of motorcars and the staves of oil barrels that they do not always repay a visit. ↗
The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds paediatricians Dr Jane Wynne and Dr Christopher Hobbs reported in the Lancetthat they were seeing more children who were being buggered than battered. About 300 cases were corroborated. The children were young – two-thirds were pre-school children – and anal abuse was more common than vaginal penetration. They also noted that ‘boys and girls seem to be at similar risk’. Almost half of the children who suffered anal abuse also showed a sign written up in the forensic textbooks as ‘anal dilation’, an anus opening when it was supposed to stay shut; opening and expecting entry. What the paediatricians were observing was not an acute sign, the effect of a single intrusion – a spasm or seizure – but a sign that was telling a story about everyday life; the anatomy of adaption. Anal dilation seemed to describe the architecture of abuse: it allowed the body to receive an incoming object, regularly. ↗
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗
