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Architecture
Form follows function.
形式服从功能。
Architecture aims at Eternity.
建筑的目标是永恒。
I am but an architectural composer.
我只是一个建筑作曲家。
A house is a machine for living in.
房子是居住的机器。
Architecture is the work of nations.
建筑是国家的工作。
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
建筑是有人居住的雕塑。
Architecture in general is frozen music.
建筑一般是凝固的音乐。
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
如果我有一种风格,我没有意识到它。
Architecture theory is very interesting.
建筑理论很有趣。
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
建筑始于工程的终点。
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
建筑是一门如何浪费空间的艺术。
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
城市是人类最伟大的创造。
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
理性主义是艺术的敌人,尽管作为建筑的基础是必要的。
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
在某种程度上,我只是把建筑和艺术冲动结合在一起。我认为建筑是一种合法的雕塑方式。
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
建筑唤起人的情感。因此,建筑师的任务是使这些情感更加精确。
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
一个伟大的建筑必须从不可测量开始,在设计时必须通过可测量的手段,最终必须是不可测量的。
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
这些攻击的全部目的是把那些承包商赶出去。很多人不得不离开。他们被吓坏了。
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
在过去,建筑师倾向于将他们的注意力集中在作为一个静态对象的建筑上。我认为动态更重要:人的动态,他们与空间和环境条件的互动。