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Architecture
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
普林斯顿大学的校园环境为建筑充当社会聚光体提供了独特的挑战和机遇。
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
现代建筑并不意味着使用不成熟的新材料;主要的事情是在更人性化的方向上提炼材料。
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
罗马人并不是支撑拱门的发明者，但它在拱顶、交叉的桶形和圆顶上的广泛应用是他们的发明。
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。
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
歌剧，仅次于哥特式建筑，是西方人类最奇怪的发明之一。这是任何逻辑过程都无法预见的。
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。
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。
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
任何与之相关的建筑作品，我认为都是好的。它显示出人们的兴趣，人们的参与。
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
我打算进入建筑行业。但是当我到达的时候，建筑被填满了。表演就在旁边，所以我选择了表演。
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
空间一直是建筑的精神维度。与其说是结构的物理表述，不如说是它所包含的内容打动了我们。
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
我最喜欢的度假地点之一是迈阿密，因为那里的人、水和海滩——当然——而且迈阿密海滩的建筑非常棒。
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
如果你对建筑感兴趣，而且你来自西方，那么重建寺庙的一切都是开胃小菜。最终你会被带到那里。你逃不掉的。
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
我放弃了上大学。我学了一年建筑学。
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。
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
桥梁可能是公共建筑中最隐形的形式。
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
不要鼓掌太用力——那是一栋很旧的建筑物。
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。
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
建筑美学必须根植于对人类活动的更广泛的理解，比如散步、放松和交流。体系结构考虑如何为这些活动提供附加价值。