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 traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

传统的观念是,建筑师对一座建筑有一个愿景,然后把它画在纸上或电脑上,然后建造它,这并不是真正的建筑工作原理,事实上,电脑对设计有很大的影响。

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

说我们相处得很好是很无聊的,有时我们会假装生气来让事情变得有趣,但事实是我们相处得很好,我们从来没有争吵过。

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

当老人种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在树荫下的树时,一个社会就会变得伟大。

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

医生可以掩盖他的错误,但建筑师只能建议他的客户种植藤蔓。