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.

  • -- Frank Lloyd Wright 弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特

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。

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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。

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。

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.

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。

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

医生可以掩盖他的错误,但建筑师只能建议他的客户种植藤蔓。