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Throughout my career, I've been fortunate enough
在我的職業生涯里，我非常幸運的
to work with many of the great
和很多著名的
international architects,
國際建筑師一起工作過，
documenting their work and observing
整理他們的工作，并觀察
how their designs have the capacity
他們的設計是如何有能力
to influence the cities in which they sit.
去影響其所在的城市。
I think of new cities like Dubai
我想到了如迪拜一樣的新城市
or ancient cities like Rome
或者像羅馬一樣的老城市
with Zaha Hadid's incredible MAXXI museum,
擁有扎哈·哈迪德不可思議的設計——21世紀國家藝術博物館
or like right here in New York with the High Line,
或者像這里，高樓林立的紐約
a city which has been so much influenced
一個被摩天大樓的建筑
by the development of this.
深深影響的城市。
But what I find really fascinating
但是我發現最吸引我的是
is what happens when architects and planners leave
當這些城市的建筑師和規劃者離開
and these places become appropriated by people,
人們開始使用這些地方時，城市將會發生怎樣的變化
like here in Chandigarh, India,
比如印度的昌迪加爾
the city which has been completely designed
一個完全由建筑師，勒·柯布西耶
by the architect Le Corbusier.
設計的城市。
Now 60 years later, the city has been taken over
60年后的今天，這個城市已經被
by people in very different ways
居民以一種當初設計時不可設想的方式
from whatever perhaps intended for,
所使用，
like here, where you have the people
像這里
sitting in the windows of the assembly hall.
有人們坐在禮堂的窗戶上。
But over the course of several years,
但是在這幾年期間，
I've been documenting Rem Koolhaas's
我在記錄雷姆·庫哈斯
CCTV building in Beijing
設計的北京CCTV大樓
and the olympic stadium in the same city
和同一個城市里由赫爾佐格和德·梅隆設計的
by the architects Herzog and de Meuron.
奧運主體育場。
At these large-scale construction sites in China,
在這些中國的大型基建項目里，
you see a sort of makeshift camp
你可以看到一種臨時的帳篷營地
where workers live during the entire building process.
是工人在整個施工期間居住的地方。
As the length of the construction takes years,
由于施工期需要多年的時間，
workers end up forming a rather rough-and-ready
工人最終形成一種非常原始和簡單的
informal city, making for quite a juxtaposition
非常規城市，和他們正在建設的
against the sophisticated structures that they're building.
復雜結構的建筑并存。
Over the past seven years, I've been following
在過去的七年里，我一直在追隨著
my fascination with the built environment,
我對建筑環境的興趣，
and for those of you who know me, you would say
并且對你們當中了解我的人，你們會說
that this obsession has led me to live
這種癡迷使我
out of a suitcase 365 days a year.
一年365天提著行李生活
Being constantly on the move
一直四處奔波
means that sometimes I am able
意味著有時我可以
to catch life's most unpredictable moments,
抓住生活中最不可預測的時刻，
like here in New York
比如在紐約這里
the day after the Sandy storm hit the city.
在桑迪颶風襲擊城市后的一天。
Just over three years ago,
正好在三年前，
I was for the first time in Caracas, Venezuela,
我第一次來到委內瑞拉的加拉加斯
and while flying over the city, I was just amazed
當飛機飛過城市上方時，我很驚訝于
by the extent to which the slums
這里的貧民窟
reach into every corner of the city,
已經遍布了城市的每個角落，
a place where nearly 70 percent of the population
一個百分之七十的居民
lives in slums,
生活在貧民窟里的地方，
draped literally all over the mountains.
貧民窟滿山遍野的搭建著
During a conversation with local architects Urban-Think Tank,
在和當地的城市設計智庫的談話中，
I learned about the Torre David,
我了解到托雷·大衛
a 45-story office building which sits
一個45層高的辦公樓，坐落在
right in the center of Caracas.
加拉加斯的中心。
The building was under construction
這個高樓一直在施工
until the collapse of the Venezuelan economy
直到90年代初委內瑞拉經濟大崩盤
and the death of the developer in the early '90s.
并且設計者去世。
About eight years ago, people started moving
大概八年前，人們開始搬進
into the abandoned tower
被廢棄的大樓里
and began to build their homes right in between
并開始在這個未完工的大樓的每個間隙里
every column of this unfinished tower.
搭建他們自己的房子。
There's only one little entrance to the entire building,
整座大樓只有一個小小的入口，
and the 3,000 residents come in and out
3000居民從這里
through that single door.
通過這一個門進出。
Together, the inhabitants created public spaces
居住者合力建立了公共空間
and designed them to feel more like a home
并設計德使這里多一點家的感覺
and less like an unfinished tower.
少一點爛尾樓的感覺。
In the lobby, they painted the walls and planted trees.
在大堂，他們粉刷了墻面，種植了樹
They also made a basketball court.
他們還建了一個籃球場。
But when you look up closely,
但是當你近距離觀察時，
you see massive holes where elevators
可以看到很多的洞，這是當初設計給電梯
and services would have run through.
和其它的服務設施。
Within the tower, people have come up
在大樓里，人們想出了
with all sorts of solutions
各種解決方案
in response to the various needs
以應對不同的需求
which arise from living in an unfinished tower.
由于居住在這個爛尾樓里。
With no elevators,
由于沒有電梯
the tower is like a 45-story walkup.
大樓像個45層的步行高樓。
Designed in very specific ways
這群沒有受過任何建筑和設計培訓的居民
by this group of people
以一種獨特的方式
who haven't had any education in architecture or design.
設計了大樓的使用。
And with each inhabitant finding their own
而當每個居住者發現他們自己
unique way of coming by,
獨特的生活居住方式時，
this tower becomes like a living city,
這座大樓好像變成了一座居住的城市，
a place which is alive with micro-economies
一個伴隨著微觀的經濟
and small businesses.
和小商戶的地方。
The inventive inhabitants, for instance,
比如，這些有創造力的居住者
find opportunities in the most unexpected cases,
在最不可思議的情況下發現機遇，
like the adjacent parking garage,
比如毗鄰的停車場
which has been reclaimed as a taxi route
被重新規劃為一條出租車的路線
to shuttle the inhabitants up through the ramps
搭載居民通過坡道
in order to shorten the hike
以縮短到公寓的
up to the apartments.
爬坡的距離。
A walk through the tower
穿過大樓的一路上
reveals how residents have figured out
展現了居民是如何想出
how to create walls, how to make an air flow,
怎么搭建墻體，怎么讓空氣流通，
how to create transparency,
怎么讓大樓更加透亮，
circulation throughout the tower,
大樓的循環系統，
essentially creating a home
尤其是創造一個
that's completely adapted
完全適應于
to the conditions of the site.
周圍環境的家園。
