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Museum of Contemporary Crafts(現・Museum of Arts and Design)で開催されたObjects for Preparing Food展のために論文「The Evolution of Food Preparing Environments」を執筆した。Progressive Architecture誌編集長の推薦があったことが、残されている執筆依頼文に書かれている。Food Environments(kitchen)を文化人類学的なセオリーで分析し、歴史的・人類学的に分類される人の生活環境の中でキッチンがどのように位置づけされてきたのかについて比較・検討したもので、フローチャートを多用している。人類学者のYehudi A. Cohen氏の影響が大きい。当時、ニューヨークからペン大に通っていた私は、ペン大に講師として招聘されプリンストン大から来ていたCohen氏と帰りのAmtrakでよく一緒になった。このときにCohen氏から直接学んだことは現在に至るまで大きな影響を及ぼしている。
Objects for Preparing Food, 1973
I wrote the paper “The Evolution of Food Preparing Environments” for the Objects for Preparing Food exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, currently known as the Museum of Arts and Design. The request for this paper, preserved in the commissioning documents, was endorsed by the editor-in-chief of Progressive Architecture. The paper analyzed kitchens—described as food environments—from a cultural anthropological perspective, comparing how they have been historically and anthropologically categorized within human living environments, extensively utilizing flowcharts. The work was deeply influenced by anthropologist Yehudi A. Cohen. At the time, I was a student commuting to the University of Pennsylvania from New York, and Mr. Cohen, who had been invited as a lecturer from Princeton University to Penn, often accompanied me on my return trips on Amtrak. The direct lessons I learned from Mr. Cohen during these meetings have continued to exert a substantial influence on my work.