Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  • -- Walter Gropius 沃尔特·格罗皮乌斯

我们的指导原则是,设计既不是智力问题,也不是物质问题,它只是生活中不可或缺的一部分,是文明社会中每个人都必须具备的。

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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

我从小就想设计高尔夫球场。我想这是由于我打球的方式。为了找到打洞的正确方法,我总是先问自己建筑师是怎么做的。

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

所有语言中词源学的普遍原则:词是从身体和身体的性质中继承下来的,用来表达思想和精神的东西。思想的秩序必须遵循事物的秩序。

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转,星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒,也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

公立学校被设计成我们社会的伟大均衡器——在那里所有的孩子都可以获得教育机会,在成年后有所成就。

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

除非我们买书的钱比买口香糖的钱还多,否则我们永远不会成为一个文明的国家。

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

她仍然不如男人文明,主要是因为她没有受过教育。