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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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

设计是把形式和内容放在一起的方法。设计和艺术一样,有多种定义;没有单一的定义。设计可以是艺术。设计可以是美学。设计如此简单,这就是为什么它如此复杂。

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

一个人如果一年内被赶去捕龙虾,他就被称为疯子;但是,如果一个人认为人可以通过魔法变成天使,那他就被称为“射线制造者”,他仍然逍遥法外。

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

几乎所有的犯罪都源于对审美表达的压抑欲望。

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

我被家具设计作为一个小规模的完整建筑所吸引。

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

图画比装饰墙壁更容易弄脏墙壁。

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

年轻人从不认为自己会死。