All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

所有的建筑都是伟大的日落之后的建筑;也许建筑真的是一种夜间艺术,就像烟花艺术一样。

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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

年龄越大,各层在很大程度上越均匀;这些层越新,它们受到的限制就越多,在很小的距离内就会发生变化。

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

任何房子都不应该建在山上或任何东西上。应该是在山上。山和房子应该住在一起,彼此为对方感到更幸福。

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

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。

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too law and we reach it.

对我们大多数人来说,更大的危险不是我们的目标太高而我们错过了它,而是它太有规律而我们达到了它。