A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

一件作品只有首先是后现代的,才能成为现代的。这样理解的后现代主义并不是现代主义的终结,而是处于萌芽状态,这种状态是恒定的。

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

政治就消失了;它就消失了。不变的是人类的生命。所以我试着在我的写作中发展一种观点,政治只是这个家具世界中的一件家具。这不是目的。这不是我们的目标。

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

没有这种精神,现代主义建筑就不可能完全存在。因为现代主义的逻辑和精神往往是不匹配的,所以我用建筑来调和这两者。

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

天才与其说是一盏灯,不如说是对周围阴暗环境的不断觉察。

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

后现代主义已经消亡,因为它没有满足人类的需求。