The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

  • -- Thom Mayne 托马斯·梅恩

建筑美学必须根植于对人类活动的更广泛的理解,比如散步、放松和交流。体系结构考虑如何为这些活动提供附加价值。

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But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

但我绝对相信,建筑是一种社会活动,与某种交流或互动场所有关,而改变环境就是改变行为。

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

很多孩子都没有成熟的审美观。我做到了。我很早就做出了选择,甚至是衣服;我喜欢法兰绒,不喜欢涤纶。

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

让一项法案或法律在这个或那个分支机构被阅读,每个人都会立即想到它将如何影响他的选民。

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。

I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.

我讨厌红头发,但人们似乎喜欢这种审美。

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

一个人整天想的就是他自己。