Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

  • -- Arthur Erickson 亚瑟·埃里克

理性主义是艺术的敌人,尽管作为建筑的基础是必要的。

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When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

当你是一个木匠在做一个漂亮的五斗橱时,你不会在它的背面使用胶合板,即使它面对着墙,没有人会看到它。你会知道它在那里,所以你要在背面用一块漂亮的木头。

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

因为不管出于什么原因,即使我想一直呆在家里,一个人呆着,我想告诉世界我现在是谁。

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

理性主义的本质在于它假定理性是人类最高的能力,是所有其他能力的主宰。

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此,我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

我是一名工程师,但我发现重要和必要的是,你只要边做边学。

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

恐惧是绝对必要的。如果没有它,我会吓死的。

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

让你的工作成为成名的基础,这是一种更稳定的感觉。

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

建筑就像人一样有完整性。而且同样很少。

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

自由主义是政治上的理性主义。