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.

  • -- Thom Mayne 托马斯·梅恩

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。

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When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?

当我读剧本,第一次和这个角色互动的时候,我觉得我在这里能学到什么吗?如果我觉得这是我以前做过的事情,那么我做这件事的动机是什么?

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

如果人类的生命可以用年数、几十年的意识形态和几百年的国家来衡量,那么衡量文明的单位,即各民族之间相互作用所产生的文明,将是一个千年。

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

当今世界上所有麻烦的根本原因之一是人们说得太多,想得太少。他们做事冲动,不加思考。我说话前总是先思考。

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

音乐是关于交流的……这不仅仅是身体上听起来很好或者口头上听起来很有趣;它的意义远不止于此。

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

任何房子都不应该建在山上或任何东西上。应该是在山上。山和房子应该住在一起,彼此为对方感到更幸福。

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

知道我们可以控制自己的行为,我们就更有可能控制自己的行为。