The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

  • -- Ralph Erskine 厄斯金

建筑的任务是改善人与人之间的关系:建筑必须让人放松,而不是让人变得更糟。

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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

我对建筑的热情和极大的享受,我越老越喜欢建筑,是因为我相信我们——建筑师——可以影响人们的生活质量。

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

细节和工艺水平是在最初的设计理念中体现出来的。所以当我开始画画的时候,我知道我想要什么样的细节。

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

正是我对哥林多前两封书信的研究,使我更直接地关注使徒保罗与年长使徒之间的关系。

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

普林斯顿大学的校园环境为建筑充当社会聚光体提供了独特的挑战和机遇。

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

只有当我们敢于冒险时,我们的生活才会变得更好——而我们能承担的第一个也是最难的风险就是对自己诚实。

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

当腐败指数改善时,我肯定会很高兴。

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

给我们足够的,但不要吝啬。