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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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

有一种思想,一种内部结构的基础,在各种力的吸引和排斥下,不断地在形状、方向和速度上变化,并扩展和分裂成不同的形状或群。

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

但如果你迷失在建筑中,想想那个在最小的小教堂里度过的时光,以及其中包含的爱,我真的会被建筑和建筑的意义所震撼。上帝是奇妙的。

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

如果你很有天赋,勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉会补足其缺陷。

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

我仍然每天都做主祷文。它涵盖了我们与世界关系的很多方面。

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

我认为建筑,要真正的紧张和充实,并不一定要很大。

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

夸张是谎言的近亲,几乎同样应该受到谴责。

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

你不能证明任何假设,你只能改进或反驳它。

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

把漂亮作为建筑物的一部分是很不寻常的。