Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

  • -- Thom Mayne 托马斯·梅恩

建筑与世界息息相关,但同时又具有一定的自主性。这种自主性不能用传统逻辑来解释,因为作品中最有趣的部分是非语言的。就像任何艺术一样,他们在作品的范围内运作。

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I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

我个人并不试图平衡我的工作,因为我的想法是,无论如何,任何人阅读或观看我的东西都不会有一个特别平衡的一天。但是消极的态度比积极的态度更让我开心。

What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.

那么我做了什么呢?除了屈服于一种自然的感觉之外,还有什么东西是由美所激发,由美德所认可,并始终保持在尊重的范围之内的呢?这种天真的表情不是由希望而是由信任引起的。

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

将艺术的自主性作为远离公众的理由,这一概念的提出过于简单化。你可以拥有自主权,同时与社会和政治世界保持联系。

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

被大肆吹嘘的男性逻辑是不符合逻辑的,因为他们对一半的人类表现出偏见,而根据任何字典的定义,这些偏见都被认为是偏见。

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

我明白了,为了实现我的目标,谈判比用拳头敲打桌子来捍卫工作的自主权更有意义。

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

科学什么也解释不了;我们知道的越多,世界就变得越奇妙,周围的黑暗也就变得越深邃。

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

正是广告和消费主义的逻辑支配着大众媒体对现实的描述。

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

我从来没有试图掩盖发生的事情。我服了刑,我努力学习,继续前进。

Love is just love it cannot be defined and it cannot be explained.

爱就是爱,无法定义,也无法解释。