Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  • -- Charles, Prince of Wales 查尔斯,威尔士王子

为什么我们不能在设计中使用曲线和拱门来表达情感呢?他们怎么了?为什么所有的东西都必须是垂直的、笔直的、不弯曲的,只有在直角的时候才有用?

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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

我过去不喜欢被称为“女建筑师”:我是一名建筑师,而不仅仅是一名女建筑师。男人们过去常常轻拍我的头说,‘你适合做女孩。“但我看到,其他女性也非常需要安慰自己,这是可以做到的,所以我一点也不介意。”

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

公立学校被设计成我们社会的伟大均衡器——在那里所有的孩子都可以获得教育机会,在成年后有所成就。

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

智能设计的论点基本上取决于这样说:“你并没有用进化论来回答所有的问题。”好吧,你猜怎么着?科学不能回答所有的问题。

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。

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。

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

图画比装饰墙壁更容易弄脏墙壁。