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Architecture
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
建筑是一种视觉艺术，建筑本身就说明了一切。
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
散文是建筑，不是室内装饰，巴洛克风格已经结束。
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
我被家具设计作为一个小规模的完整建筑所吸引。
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
我不区分建筑、景观和园艺;对我来说，它们是一体的。
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
我的建筑不是用语言来表达，而是通过它们自身的宽敞。
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
我不是为了拥有客户而建造。我有客户要建。
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
手段必须服从目的，服从我们对尊严和价值的渴望。
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.
自行车棚是一种建筑;林肯大教堂是一座建筑。
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
我相信，人们的生活方式可以在一定程度上受到建筑的指引。
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
建筑应该谈论它的时间和地点，但渴望永恒。
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。
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
建筑倾向于消耗一切，它已经成为一个人的全部生活。
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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。
A house is a machine for living in.
房子是居住的机器。
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
艺术作品向人们展示了新的方向和对未来的思考。房子考虑的是现在。
Architecture is the work of nations.
建筑是国家的工作。
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
建筑师最有用的工具是画板上的橡皮擦和工地上的破坏杆。
The whole basis of the views of architecture prevailing today must be displaced by the recognition that the only possible point of departure for our artistic creation is modern life.
我们必须认识到，我们艺术创作的唯一可能出发点是现代生活，这一认识必须取代今天流行的建筑观点的整个基础。