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The importance of play in the modern aesthetic should not come as a surprise. It is announced in every city in the developed world by the fantastic and playful buildings of postmodernism and neo-modernism and by the fantastic juxtapositions of architectural styles that typify collage city and urban adhocism.
玩耍在現代美學中的重要性不應引起驚訝。它在發達世界的每座城市里都通過后現代主義和新現代主義的奇形怪狀和荒誕的建筑物，通過把各種建筑風格奇特地拼湊在一起得到反映，而這恰恰是拼貼畫式的城市和無計劃的大雜燴城市的典型表現。
Today modern culture includes the geometries of the International Style, the fantasies of facadism, and the gamesmanship of theme parks and museum villages . It pretends at times to be static but it is really dynamic. Its buildings move and sway and reflect dreamy visions of everything that is going on around them. It surrounds its citizens with the linear sculpture of pipelines and interstate highways and high-tension lines and the delicate virtuosities of the surfaces of the Chrysler Airflow and the Boeing 747 and the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon, as well as with the brutal assertiveness of oil tankers and bulldozers and the Tinkertoy complications of trusses and geodesic domes and lunar landers. It abounds in images and sounds and values utterly different from those of the world of natural things seen from a middle distance.
今天，現代文化包括了國際風格的幾何圖形、傳統門面與新型建筑相結合的奇特圖案以及主題公園和博物館村莊的游戲絕招。這種文化有時裝成是靜態的，但實際上卻是生機勃勃的。體現這種文化的建筑移動、搖擺，就像做夢一樣，反映了周圍發生的一切。這種文化向其公民展示了體現幾何圖形的直線結構，如管道、州際公路和高壓電線，也展示了富有藝術性的流線型克萊斯勒公司的氣流汽車、波音747飛機以及硅片集成電路上的精細網織圖案。現代文化也向其公民展示了無情地引人注目的龐然大物--油輪和推土機以及結構玩具的復雜設計、短線拱頂和登月車輛。它充滿了想象、聲音和價值，完全不同于我們肉眼所看到的我們周圍世界的自然景物。
