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.

  • -- James Rouse 詹姆斯·劳斯

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。

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I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

在我开始表演之前,我做了一些模特,我准备参加这个大型的活动——我不记得是哪个设计师了——所有这些高管都在看我的作品集。然后其中一个说:“我们很想利用你,但是你明年丢了这个之后还能再来吗?”他拍了拍下巴下面。

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

我喜欢建筑空间:建筑、家具等等,可能比时尚更喜欢。开发过程更具触感。它是关于空间和形式的,是你可以与他人分享的东西。

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

世界上所有的修改都不能挽救一份糟糕的初稿,因为事物的结构在最初的构思中就已经形成,或者还没有形成,修改只会影响细节和装饰,唉!

You know you’ve achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

你知道你已经在设计上达到了完美,不是当你没有更多的东西可以添加,而是当你没有更多的东西可以带走。