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And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial infrastructure.
即使在我的家鄉Poughkeepsie，我們想到古老的工業基礎設施。
We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt cities across our nation,
我們疑惑：我們能用藝術文化和設計來振興這個城市嗎，還有全國其它一些老舊的條帶式城市，
and turn them into centers for innovation and growth?
能把她們變成革新和成長的中心嗎？
In each of these projects, we asked a simple question: What more can architecture do?
我們在每個項目上都詢問一個簡單的問題：建筑師還能夠多做些什么？
And by asking that question, we were forced to consider how we could create jobs,
通過這個問題，我們被迫地考慮到我們怎樣來完成工作，
how we could source regionally and how we could invest in the dignity of the communities in which we serve.
怎樣就地取材，怎樣在我們所服務的社區有尊嚴地投資。
I have learned that architecture can be a transformative engine for change.
我已經學到了建筑可成為變化的轉變性引擎。
About a year ago, I read an article about a tireless and intrepid civil rights leader named Bryan Stevenson.
一年以前，我讀過一篇文章，是關于一位孜孜不倦的勇敢的民運領袖，他叫Bryan Stevenson。
And Bryan had a bold architectural vision.
Bryan有一個大膽的建筑觀點。
He and his team had been documenting the over 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans that have happened in the American South.
他和他的隊友們已經記錄了在南美發生的超過4000例的美國非裔的私刑案例。
And they had a plan to mark every county where these lynchings occurred,
他們計劃標記下這些私刑發生的每一個區縣，
and build a national memorial to the victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama.
他們在阿拉巴馬的蒙哥馬利為私刑的犧牲者建立了一個國家紀念館。
