The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

  • -- Ralph Erskine 厄斯金

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。

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Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

在我们国家的学校里,玩耍正受到攻击,而缩短课间休息时间只是问题的一部分。作业正在增加。城市正在建设没有操场的新学校。出于安全方面的考虑,学校开始禁止学生在操场上奔跑、追逐、踢足球。

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

我尊重别人的信仰。我对自己的生活的信念是,它是对我如何能把事情做得更好的探索,无论是做一个更好的男人还是一个更好的父亲,或是为自己找到改进的方法。

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

我们下面的泰晤士河越来越浅,四周都是阴影——建筑和桥梁的阴影构成了这幅可怕杰作的基础。

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

建筑不是一项鼓舞人心的事业,它是一个理性的过程,去做明智的、有希望的美好的事情;这是所有。

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

我们的精神态度是由我们与无限精神的关系的概念所决定的。

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

你不能证明任何假设,你只能改进或反驳它。

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

但这座建筑的特色在于装饰。

A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend.

有钱的小丑既不认识亲戚也不认识朋友。