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Behind the design of Seattles library Joshua Prince-Ramus 2006-07-10 /talks/joshua_prince_ramus_behind_the_design_of_seattle_s_library Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 Im going to present three projects in rapid fire. 我将快速地展示三件作品 I dont have much time to do it. 我时间不多 And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation. 并且我想通过快速的展示来强化这三件作品的概念 The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process. 第一件作品我将它的设计称之为高度理性主义 Its a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, 它几乎已经理性到了荒唐的境界 and it transcends all the baggage 它已经超过了 that normally comes with what people would call, 人们通常可以接受的 sort of a rational conclusion to something. 理性的程度 And it concludes in something that you see here, 它包含了一些你看得见 that you actually wouldnt expect as being the result of rationality. 但却想不到是理性主义的一些元素 The second -- 第二件 the second is that this process does not have a signature. 这第二件作品并没有署名 There is no authorship. Architects are obsessed with authorship. 我们不知作者是谁，而通常建筑师很乐于署名 This is something that has editing and it has teams, 通常以团队形式 but in fact, we no longer see within this process, 事实上我们在这件作品中看不到 the traditional master architect 传统建筑大师的创造 creating a sketch that his minions carry out. 而只是他的助手画出的草图 And the third is that it challenges -- 第三个，有点难度 and this is, in the length of this, very hard to support why, 以它的长度，很难把所有这些 connect all these things -- 连接在一起 but it challenges the high modernist notion of flexibility. 但它挑战了最现代意义上的灵活性 High modernists said we will create sort of singular spaces that are generic, 现代主义认为，我们创造一种共有的单一空间 almost anything can happen within them. 几乎所有的事都能在那里发生 I call it sort of shotgun flexibility -- 我把它称为射击的灵活性 turn your head this way; shoot; and youre bound to kill something. 把你的头转向这边，射击，你一定会打中目标 So, this is the promise of high modernism: 这就是现代主义的预示 within a single spa