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。

相关名言

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

我过去不喜欢被称为“女建筑师”:我是一名建筑师,而不仅仅是一名女建筑师。男人们过去常常轻拍我的头说,‘你适合做女孩。“但我看到,其他女性也非常需要安慰自己,这是可以做到的,所以我一点也不介意。”

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

多年来,我一直生活在不舒服的信念,大多数规划和建筑设计遭受缺乏真实和基本的目的。在我看来,最终的目的必须是改善人类。

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?

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

语言的力量是巨大的,如果你不把它们太多地联系在一起的话。

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

时尚就是建筑:它是一个比例的问题。

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

如果他们能完成的话,那将是一个很棒的地方。