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。

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

将生命的意义融入自然和艺术之中,使生命的享受意义成为生活的一部分,是一种审美的态度。

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

渺小的人需要专制来锻炼他们的肌肉,正如伟大的灵魂渴望平等来发挥他们的心灵。

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

手段必须服从目的,服从我们对尊严和价值的渴望。

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

一个人整天想的就是他自己。

I am but an architectural composer.

我只是一个建筑作曲家。