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And there was my father, standing with me outside, admiring a day's work,
而我的父親和我一起站在外面，欣賞著一天的工作，
hair on his head, fully in remission, when he turned to me and he said, "You know, Michael, this house saved my life."
他頭上的發重新長了出來，他走向我對我說：“你知道邁克這棟房子救了我。”
So the following year, I decided to go to architecture school.
所以第二年我去了建筑學院。
But there, I learned something different about buildings.
在那兒我學到了關于樓房的很多不同的東西。
Recognition seemed to come to those who prioritized novel and sculptural forms, like ribbons, or ... pickles?
成名似乎都是給那些最先革新和雕塑的形式，比方說緞帶或者是腌黃瓜條？
And I think this is supposed to be a snail.
但我認為這應該是一個蝸牛。
Something about this bothered me.
這很讓我煩惱。
Why was it that the best architects, the greatest architecture -- all beautiful and visionary and innovative
為什么最好的建筑，最偉大的建筑，全是美麗、創新和標新立異的，
is also so rare, and seems to serve so very few?
而且極其罕見，并且只有少數人能夠享受？
And more to the point: With all of this creative talent, what more could we do?
再加上一點：在這些創造性的天分之上，我們還能做些什么呢？
Just as I was about to start my final exams, I decided to take a break from an all-nighter
就在我要我開始我期末考試的時候，我決定從通宵的學習中偷個懶，
and go to a lecture by Dr. Paul Farmer, a leading health activist for the global poor.
我去了Paul Farmer醫生的一個演講，他是一個健康活動家領袖，為了全球的貧困而努力。
I was surprised to hear a doctor talking about architecture.
我很驚奇地聽到一個醫生談論到關于樓房的事情。
Buildings are making people sicker, he said, and for the poorest in the world, this is causing epidemic-level problems.
他說，在全世界最貧困的地方，這引起了流行病程度上的問題。
In this hospital in South Africa, patients that came in with, say, a broken leg,
在南非的醫院，比如說一個腿骨折的病人來到醫院，
to wait in this unventilated hallway, walked out with a multidrug-resistant strand of tuberculosis.
在通風不好的大廳等候，就會帶著幾種抗藥性的結核病菌種走出醫院。
Simple designs for infection control had not been thought about, and people had died because of it.
根本沒有想到為控制感染的簡單設計，人們因此而死亡。
