您的建筑重几何，福斯特先生？（2010）

*他想让他了解社会组织
about how they worked,
他们是怎样工作的
and he was the one who is pushing Norman,
他也同时推动Norman
to thinking about how you design the whole world,
思考如何设计整个世界
the whole environment.
整个环境
Vincent Scully,
Vincent Scully
the other great force in Yale,
耶鲁里的另一支力量
was a historian,
是个历史学家
who is passion about making architecture,
充满着对建筑的激♥情♥
*come alive to his students.
*带给他的学生生动的图像
[Richard Rogers Architect]
Richard Rogers 建筑师
Vincent Scully and Rudolph all very much about the visual,
*斯库利和鲁道夫十分强调视觉感受
*how you sort? things,
*你如何归类事物
how you approach things
你怎么样去接近它
*how things are around
*身边的事物该怎样布置
does you looked at them in different angles.
你是否从不同的角度观察过它
Scully was the one were *encouraged both Norman and Richard to drive across American,
Scully同时也鼓励Norman和理查德横跨美国大♥陆♥游历
*they went on pilgrimages to look great architecture.
他们去见识伟大的建筑
As we drove into the city of Chicago,
当我们驶入芝加哥城时
*and my VW Bugin had one of those when windows on the top,
*and maybe argue about those when windows on the top,
*争论头顶上建筑的窗户
*the whole crew,not Sue, but Richard and Norman,
*发现整车人除了Sue，Richard和Norman
it was freezing,
那里实在是冷
I mean it was like snow everywhere,
到处都在下雪
*wanted *the top to be open while we were driving so they could take photographs,
我们为了拍照片 把天窗打开
*so the oil derricks and the big things all around Chicago,
so they all direct the big things all around Chicago，
*它们引领了之后芝加哥城所有的大楼
going into the city.
进入了那个城市
It was a worthy idea,
那是个有价值的想法
*that they'd start a partnership one day was born
but it was started punishing one day it was born,
*在它诞生之时 也结成了友谊
Having been inspired initially by American architects,
*由于受到美国建筑师在职业开始时的激励
Foster has that then returned later in his career to remind Americans of lessons,
Norman在后来的职业生涯中提醒着美国人
that they gave the world originally but then subsequently forgot.
*已被他们忘却的 对世界的影响力
[Alain de Botton Writer & broadcaster]
Alain de Botton 作家 广播人
*So he's like many people of his generation, someone who admired America perhaps more than it deserved
*就像那一代人对美国抱有好感 甚至是非一般的特殊感情
at that time, because...
在那个时候，因为
*and it's a kind of more enthusiastic about America than the Americans are of themselves,
*那是一种比美国人自己还要爱国的
because Americans isn't quite...
*因为美国人并不是像他所想那样
*or maybe Foster image it to be
*也或许这是Foster的主观想象中
at romantic vision of American.
的是一个更浪漫的美国
Just going back,
让我们回到美国
it's Manhattan,
曼哈顿
It's New York,
纽约
It's the skyline,
天际线
It's a city of towers.
这是个高楼林立的城市
You think your skyscrapers,
你想像你的塔楼
you know,
你知道
it's New York.
这里是纽约
The good news is that we have a tower in New York,
好消息是在纽约有我们设计的一个塔楼
the bad news is that it's a very very small tower,
不过 那是一个很小很小的塔楼
[Hearst Tower New York,USA,2007]
Hearst Tower 纽约 美国 2007
almost the most extraordinary collection of mega towers.
*那几乎不能算作是一个摩天大楼
And how did you make this tower have presence,
你怎么样保证这个楼在众楼中脱颖而出
when it's physically so small.
当它体积又是那么小时
*Scale in the way is samething size,
*体积感某些时候等同于尺寸
[Anish Kapoor Artist]
Anish Kapoor 艺术家
scale is a quantity of somewhat abstract proportions,
*体积感有时是一种抽象的量化概念
it has, it bears a relationship at one level, to the body
*只是体现了建筑的一个方面
but it bears a bigger relationship to the imagination.
*但是与想象力更为相关
The way if you like, the pyramid in Egypt do,
就像你在埃及看到的金字塔一样
they remain, whenever you do, you walk up them,
*当你爬上去时
you walk around them,
当你在它周围时
they remain the same scale they are,
它都保持着那种体积感
which is somehow bigger than we really are.
那种大于它们实际尺寸的体积感
When Hearts building was finished,
当hearts大楼建成时
I call Foster,
我称Norman
[Paul Goldberger Writer & architectural critic]
Paul Goldberger 作家 建筑评论家
the Mozart of Modernism.
称他为现代主义的莫扎特
Is I thought that conveyed the way of his work seens,
*他的作品看起来
so the miracle,
很神奇
elegant and effortless,
*非常优雅 像不费吹灰之力
*and just as we know that it's a huge effort behind all of that,
*但我们都知道，看似简单的背后实则花费了巨大的努力
but part of his genius,
但另一部分是因为他的天赋
was to produce this finish piece of music.
来谱写这个乐章的结尾
They didn't show the effort,
*他们不会表现出其背后的努力
*he just seen it dance perfectly through the air.
*如在空气中跳舞一般
well, Foster's building tend to do that,
Norman的建筑正是要做到这一点
they don't show the effort.
他们不会让你看出他们实际上有多么不简单
The diagram triangulation,
三角形的结构
not only produces something which is inherently stronger.
*不仅起到了加固的作用
*we can go back in terms of,
*我们可以回到
*the bottomless full of bones ?in those,
*？的，充满了
and aircraft the late 30s,
30年代末期的飞机
structure the nature creature,
结构是自然的产物
and triangulated.
三角形的构造
inherently stronger using 20% less steel,
更为坚固并节省了两成的钢材
a good start in terms of the susteinblity story,
*在可持续发展性上，那也是个好的开始
especially when 80% of that is recycled steel.
尤其当其中八成的钢铁是回收利用的
The Hearts tower is set as green as possible
Hearts大楼尽可能做到了绿色环保
but magically,
但奇妙的是
it also manages to come up a new geometry,
*这么做的同时也创造了一个新的外形结构
that no New York skyscraper had ever tried before,
之前从未在纽约其他大楼中尝试过的
*the coolness looks as if they dissolved into thin air
*the core looked as desorbing to thin air.
*核心直冲云霄
*I like the building in New York,
*喜欢纽约的那栋大楼
*I like told him that,
我告诉他
[Richard Serra Artist]
Richard Serra 艺术家
and he said it was too squat,
然后他说它过于矮胖了
and I said, no, that's wrong.
我说 不 不是那样
I think the muscularity of that building, I like.
*我觉得我很喜欢那建筑强健坚韧的线条
I think it's a very good building.
我认为那是一个很好的建筑
[Authony Caro Artist]
Authony Caro 艺术家
The trouble with so much sculpture is the larger it gets the worse it gets,
*如此多的雕塑的是这个建筑最大的亮点 也是带来问题最多的原因
and I think the architects understand how when something is put outside in the open air,
我认为建筑师知道如何将它们摆放在户外
it changes, the air eats into it,
*
that has to be richer,
更丰富
*and it has to be altogether the different,
*他也需要做到与众不同
and I think all these things we had even got the first base on architectures.
我想我们做的所有这些事情 应归因于这些建筑
no worried about it.
不需要疑虑
So we can learn from this,
我们能从中学到很多
I fascinated by the work of artist.
我对艺术工作非常着迷
and relationship,
以及空间 作品 艺术作品
between space, work and art.
之间的关系
The synergy between...you know, the painting,the sculpture, the furniture,
那种互动的效应 在绘画与家具之间的
the way those come together,
*它们同时的存在
which is kind of endless personal persuit.
*像种永无止境的个人的追求
[Richard Long Artist]
Richard Long 艺术家
Give my love of water,
给了我很多的水
*and stones, and mud, and raw materials,
*石头 泥浆 还有这些材料
and also the fact that like the first time,
*事实上是第一次
*human habitation, the first natural place, for people to live in caves,
*人类的习性 第一个自然地居所 是在洞穴
*you know, and Norman has chosen Neolithic artists to make his wipe
Norman挑选了最好的艺术家来把它做得更美
Norman would stay in American,
Norman本会留在美国
he was happy there,
他在那里很快乐
he felt home there,
像在家里一样
he had a job in San Francisco,
他在旧金山也有工作
but he kept in touch with Richard Rogers,
但他还是和Rogers保持着联♥系♥
and a idea form a pracitise in london came up,
*当一个在伦敦市的项目有眉目时
and Richard got a project,
罗杰斯拿到了这个项目
Norman joined him,
Norman加入了他
*he could always go back if it didn't work.
*他重新回到工作岗位上 如果没有工作时
so Norman go back on plane,