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But glass has a limited ability to be expressive.
但是玻璃的表現(xiàn)力畢竟是有局限的。
This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico.
這是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一個(gè)廣場外墻的一部分。
Those 2,000-year-old carvings make it clear that this was a place of high ritual significance.
這些歷經(jīng)2000年的雕紋讓這里看起來充滿了宗教儀式氣息。
Today we look at those and we can see a historical and textural continuity between those carvings,
現(xiàn)今，當(dāng)我們看向這些建筑，我們能夠清晰地感受到四周的山脈和取材于當(dāng)?shù)氐氖模?/div>
the mountains all around and that church which is built on top of the ruins using stone plundered from the site.
并建造于廢墟之上的教堂之間，為歷史與構(gòu)造留存的一脈相承的連續(xù)性。
In nearby Oaxaca, even ordinary plaster buildings become canvasses for bright colors,
在附近的瓦哈卡，即使是普通的石膏建筑也會(huì)成為豐富多姿的色彩表達(dá)，
political murals and sophisticated graphic arts.
政治壁畫或是復(fù)雜精美的圖案藝術(shù)的畫布。
It's an intricate, communicative language that an epidemic of glass would simply wipe out.
這些錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的具有交流性的語言，會(huì)因玻璃的盛行而被輕松抹殺。
The good news is that architects and developers have begun to rediscover the joys of texture without backing away from modernity.
好消息是，建筑師和開發(fā)商們已經(jīng)開始在不脫離現(xiàn)代化的基礎(chǔ)上重新發(fā)掘其他材質(zhì)帶來的樂趣。
Some find innovative uses for old materials like brick and terra-cotta.
有一些人找到了比如磚頭或是赤陶瓦等舊材料的新用途。
Others invent new products like the molded panels
還有一些人則是發(fā)掘了新的建材，
that Snohetta used to give the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that crinkly, sculptural quality.
比如Snohetta在舊金山現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館外觀建設(shè)中用到的模壓板，使得博物館看起來富有皺巴巴的雕塑般的氣質(zhì)。
The architect Stefano Boeri even created living facades.
建筑師Stefano Boeri甚至創(chuàng)造了這種活著的表面紋理。
This is his Vertical Forest, a pair of apartment towers in Milan, whose most visible feature is greenery.
這是“垂直叢林”在米蘭的一對公寓高樓，它們最顯眼的特征便是那外表的綠色。
And Boeri is designing a version of this for Nanjing in China.
Boeri正在為中國南京設(shè)計(jì)一個(gè)類似的版本。
And imagine if green facades were as ubiquitous as glass ones how much cleaner the air in Chinese cities would become.
想象一下，如果這種綠色外觀能夠和玻璃一樣普及的話，那么中國城市的空氣質(zhì)量將會(huì)得到多么大的改善啊。
