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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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

我几乎完全无视先例,相信会有更好的结果。有人告诉我事情总是这样做,我很生气。我反对先例的暴政。我追求任何可以改变过去的新事物。

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

我不考虑行业或建筑,但有人说你很幸运,如果你找到了你喜欢做的事情,这是真的,如果你得到了报酬,这将是一个奇迹。

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

在言语中,言语服从于一种独立于第一种关系的关系,这种关系是建立在它们之间联系的基础上的:这就是我所说的组合关系。

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

我们下面的泰晤士河越来越浅,四周都是阴影——建筑和桥梁的阴影构成了这幅可怕杰作的基础。

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

一座城市的建筑,你走的时候体验;一个郊区的建筑,当你开车的时候,你会有一种身临其境的感觉。

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

由建筑师设计,意图高尚,但手瘫痪。

If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.

劝戒不能使他进步,杖也不能。

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

给我们足够的,但不要吝啬。