In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.

  • -- Chao-Ming Wu 赵明武

在投机建筑中,这是我们的大部分业务,实际上只有三种机会使建筑:大堂或入口序列,顶部和电梯驾驶室。

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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

没有建筑师会费心设计出适合人们居住的房子,因为这意味着要建造一系列不同的房子。这样做要便宜得多,而且最重要的是,可以节省时间。

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

作为一名建筑师,我学会了用平面形式思考和表达自己,在纸上,想象设计的线条轮廓。

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

建筑是一个缓慢的行业,城市规划更是缓慢。

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

所有的建筑师都想活到死后。