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Architecture
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
一座城市的建筑,你走的时候体验;一个郊区的建筑,当你开车的时候,你会有一种身临其境的感觉。
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
我对建筑的兴趣一直是雕塑。我的摄影大多是建筑。
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
我希望我的建筑能激励人们利用自己的资源,走向未来。
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
那些寻求自然法则来支持他们的新作品的人与造物主合作。
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
我真的很喜欢迈阿密,但是我不认为那里的建筑与城市相配。这有点太商业化了。
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 job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
建筑的任务是改善人与人之间的关系:建筑必须让人放松,而不是让人变得更糟。
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
帕拉第安建筑的逻辑提出了一个可以普遍应用的美学公式。
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, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
在所有的艺术中,建筑对灵魂的作用是最缓慢的,但却是最确定的。
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
埃及人对建筑的贡献更多的是纪念死者而不是生者。
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
作为设计师,我们肩负的使命很简单:以合适的成本提供空间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
所有的建筑都是伟大的日落之后的建筑;也许建筑真的是一种夜间艺术,就像烟花艺术一样。
Architecture is the work of nations.
建筑是国家的工作。
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。
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。