There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  • -- Edwin Lutyens 埃德温·路特恩斯

没有伟大的赞助者,就不会有伟大的建筑师或伟大的建筑。

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I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

我想所有的孩子都认为他们的父母很严格。我的父母不是很严格,但他们似乎比大多数人都严格。但即使他们会说,‘哦,天哪,我这个时候得去上班’,他们也知道自己在做什么。我有很棒的父母。

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

为什么我们不能在设计中使用曲线和拱门来表达情感呢?他们怎么了?为什么所有的东西都必须是垂直的、笔直的、不弯曲的,只有在直角的时候才有用?

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

如果你对建筑感兴趣,而且你来自西方,那么重建寺庙的一切都是开胃小菜。最终你会被带到那里。你逃不掉的。

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

国家是一个巨大的虚拟实体,每个人都试图以牺牲他人为代价来生存。

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

房子的内部是私人世界的化身;它的外部是外部世界的一部分。

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

架构师。一个为你的房子画草图,为你的钱画草图的人。