“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”
—– morphologist 1917 Theodore Cook
美 蘊含了人性,我們稱贊一個自然物體很美麗,因為它的形狀展現了合宜(適當),完美的功能.
—–1917年 形態學家 Theodore Cook
"he who seeks truth shall find beauty
he who seeks beauty shall find vanity
he who seeks order shall find gratification
he who seeks gratification shall be disappointed
he who considers himself the servent of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression
he who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance
arrogance is incompatible with nature
through nature the nature of the universe and the nature of man who shall seek truth
if we seek truth we shall find beauty"
尋求真理能夠得到美
尋求美卻會得到虛無
尋求秩序令人滿足
尋求滿都卻只會變得失望
認為自己 為同伴服務的人 會發現自我實現的喜悅
而尋求自我實現的人 卻會導致傲慢
傲慢和自然是不相容的
透過自然 宇宙和人類的本質
我們應當尋求真理
如果我們尋求真理
我們就會發現美
----Moshe Safdie
Habitat 67 at Expo 67 World's Fair, Montreal, Quebec
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the city of Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15 years old.
Career
An excellent student, he studied architecture at McGill University and apprenticed under Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. At age 24, his master's thesis was selected to be constructed as part of the Expo 67 celebration. The Habitat 67 project, a complex of cellular residences that could be lifted into place like Lego blocks, propelled him onto the world stage. In 1967, he returned to Israel, where he was part of the team that refurnished Old Jerusalem. He now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a citizen of Canada, Israel, and the United States.
In 1978, he became Director of the Urban Design Program and the Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His company, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. is based out of Somerville, Massachusetts with branch offices in Toronto and Jerusalem.
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