What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  • -- Bernard Levin 伯纳德·列文

第二次世界大战以来,建筑发生了什么变化,只有那些拿着一根白棍子和一条狗的路人才能不痛不痛地欣赏它?

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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

我对建筑的热情和极大的享受,我越老越喜欢建筑,是因为我相信我们——建筑师——可以影响人们的生活质量。

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

为了防止战争,我夜以继日地工作了十二年,但我做不到。北方疯狂而盲目,不让我们管理自己,于是战争爆发了。

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

我可能想从事建筑或绘画,与美术有关的工作。

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

是的,政治是没有流血的战争;战争是这些政治的延伸。