The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.

  • -- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe 密斯基金会

从物质到功能再到创造性工作的漫长道路只有一个目标:从我们这个时代绝望的混乱中创造秩序。我们必须有秩序,按部就班,按部就班,按部就班。

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

多年来,我一直生活在不舒服的信念,大多数规划和建筑设计遭受缺乏真实和基本的目的。在我看来,最终的目的必须是改善人类。

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

我们想要享受我们正在做的事情,我们有业务上的事情要处理,还有人事方面的问题,我们花了一点时间来做这件事。

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

在他完全无能为力的状态下,个人把他剩下的时间看作是一个短暂的缓刑。

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

提供有意义的建筑不是模仿历史,而是清晰地表达历史。