A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
架构师
Architect
I am an architect, first.
首先，我是一名建筑师。
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
所有的建筑师都想活到死后。
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
图画比装饰墙壁更容易弄脏墙壁。
All are architects of fate working in these walls of time.
所有人都是命运的建筑师，在时间的高墙中工作。
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
架构师。一个为你的房子画草图，为你的钱画草图的人。
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
没有伟大的赞助者，就不会有伟大的建筑师或伟大的建筑。
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。
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
无论在材料、设计还是执行上，都要尽量避免质朴。
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
你可以说我不是世界上最简单的建筑师，因为我总是试图挑战极限。
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。
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.
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。
An architect is only really a glorified tailor and if people want a suit - as long as they don’t ask for three sleeves or something - it’s do-able.
建筑师只是一个被美化的裁缝，如果人们想要一套西装——只要他们不要求三袖或其他东西——这是可行的。
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
建筑师应该像画家一样少住在城市里。把他送到我们的山上去，让他在那里研究什么是自然通过扶壁了解的，什么是通过拱顶了解的。
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
音乐厅最大的问题是鞋盒是音响效果的理想形状，但没有一个名副其实的建筑师愿意建造鞋盒。
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。
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
我过去不喜欢被称为“女建筑师”:我是一名建筑师，而不仅仅是一名女建筑师。男人们过去常常轻拍我的头说，‘你适合做女孩。“但我看到，其他女性也非常需要安慰自己，这是可以做到的，所以我一点也不介意。”
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
为什么我们不能在设计中使用曲线和拱门来表达情感呢?他们怎么了?为什么所有的东西都必须是垂直的、笔直的、不弯曲的，只有在直角的时候才有用?