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.

  • -- Thom Mayne 托马斯·梅恩

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。

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I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.

我坚信所有人与生俱来的创造力,以及我们与生俱来的能力——如果不被传统所蒙蔽——欣赏各种形式的真美,不管我们喜不喜欢。

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

第二次世界大战以来,建筑发生了什么变化,只有那些拿着一根白棍子和一条狗的路人才能不痛不痛地欣赏它?

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

将生命的意义融入自然和艺术之中,使生命的享受意义成为生活的一部分,是一种审美的态度。

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

让一项法案或法律在这个或那个分支机构被阅读,每个人都会立即想到它将如何影响他的选民。

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

上帝在矿物中沉睡,在植物中醒来,在动物中行走,在人类中思考。

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。