Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  • -- Charles, Prince of Wales 查尔斯,威尔士王子

为什么我们不能在设计中使用曲线和拱门来表达情感呢?他们怎么了?为什么所有的东西都必须是垂直的、笔直的、不弯曲的,只有在直角的时候才有用?

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I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

我从小就想成为一名设计师,我总是被摇滚明星和他们女朋友的穿着所吸引。我一直认为他们是最有趣的人。

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

音乐厅最大的问题是鞋盒是音响效果的理想形状,但没有一个名副其实的建筑师愿意建造鞋盒。

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

一个伟大的建筑必须从不可测量开始,在设计时必须通过可测量的手段,最终必须是不可测量的。

Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

多点触摸感应的设计初衷是为了让非技术人员能够熟练地做一些事情,同时让高级用户变得更加虚拟。

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

你可以说我不是世界上最简单的建筑师,因为我总是试图挑战极限。

I am but an architectural composer.

我只是一个建筑作曲家。