The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

  • -- Harry Seidler 哈里·塞德勒

罗马人并不是支撑拱门的发明者,但它在拱顶、交叉的桶形和圆顶上的广泛应用是他们的发明。

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

在过去,建筑师倾向于将他们的注意力集中在作为一个静态对象的建筑上。我认为动态更重要:人的动态,他们与空间和环境条件的互动。

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

我们塑造我们的建筑;此后,他们塑造了我们。