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Imagine that when you walked in here this evening,
想象一下當(dāng)你在今晚步入這里時(shí)，
you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking.
你發(fā)現(xiàn)所有在場(chǎng)的人看上去幾乎都一模一樣，沒有年齡和種族的區(qū)別，而且個(gè)個(gè)天生麗質(zhì)。
That person sitting right next to you might have the most idiosyncratic inner life,
那個(gè)坐在你右手邊的人，他的內(nèi)心世界可能極其怪僻，
but you don't have a clue because we're all wearing the same blank expression all the time.
而你卻根本看不出來，因?yàn)槲覀兪冀K都是同樣面無表情。
That is the kind of creepy transformation that is taking over cities, only it applies to buildings, not people.
這就是正在城市中發(fā)生著的詭異轉(zhuǎn)變，只不過不是對(duì)公眾，而是建筑。
Cities are full of roughness and shadow, texture and color.
城市中遍布粗糙與陰影，但也有和諧與色彩。
You can still find architectural surfaces of great individuality and character in apartment buildings in Riga and Yemen,
你仍然能夠在里加和也門這些地區(qū)的公寓樓房中找到極具個(gè)性的外表設(shè)計(jì)，
social housing in Vienna, Hopi villages in Arizona, brownstones in New York, wooden houses in San Francisco.
維也納的社會(huì)住房，亞利桑那的霍皮村落，紐約的赤褐色砂石建筑，舊金山的木屋。
These aren't palaces or cathedrals. These are just ordinary residences expressing the ordinary splendor of cities.
它們既不是宮殿，也不是大教堂。它們只是一些展現(xiàn)各自城市魅力的普普通通的住宅房。
And the reason they're like that is that the need for shelter is so bound up with the human desire for beauty.
這些房屋之所以會(huì)千奇百麗，正是因?yàn)槿藗兩姹灸苤兴綆У膶?duì)美的追求。
Their rough surfaces give us a touchable city. Right?
那些粗糙的表面帶給了我們一個(gè)觸手可及的城市。對(duì)吧？
Streets that you can read by running your fingers over brick and stone.
當(dāng)你的手指拂過街邊的一磚一瓦時(shí)，你仿佛走進(jìn)了小巷深處的記憶。
