02-The hard core of beauty-3.docVIP

The hard core of beauty 美之核心 Two weeks ago I happened to hear a radio program on the American poet William Carlos Williams. The program was entitled The Hard Core of Beauty. This phrase caught my attention. I like the idea that beauty has a bard core, and when I think of architecture this association of beauty and a hard core has a certain familiarity. The machine is a thing that has no superfluous parts, Williams is supposed to have said. And I immediately think I know what he meant. Its a thought that Peter Handke alludes to, I feel, when he says that beauty lies in natural, grown things that do not carry any signs or messages, and when he adds that he is upset when he cannot discover the meaning of things for himself. 两周前，我碰巧在广播上听到一个关于美国诗人威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯（William Carlos Williams）的节目。节目名为“美之核心”，这个说法引起了我的注意。我喜欢“美有核心”的想法，当我思考建筑时，“美”和“核心”有联系的想法让我觉得熟悉。据说威廉姆斯说过“机器是一种没有多余部分的东西”。我立刻认为我明白了他的意思。我觉得，这是彼得·汉德克（Peter Handke）暗指的想法，当他说美存在于自然的、长成的东西，它们不带有任何符号或信息，当他接着说他不能发现事物对他自己的意义时他很难过。 And then I learned from the radio program that the poetry of William Carlos Williams is based on the conviction that there are no ideas except in the things themselves, and that the purpose of his art was to direct his sensory perception to the world of things in order to make them his own. 我从广播节目听到的威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯的诗是基于这样的确信(信念)：除了事物自身，再也没有想法（ideas），他的艺术目的是将其感官知觉贯注在物质世界上，以便拥有它们。 In Williamss work, said the speaker, this takes place seemingly unemotionally and laconically, and it is precisely for this reason that his texts have such a strong emotional impact. 节目主持人说，在威廉姆斯的作品里，这看起来没有感情地、简洁地发生着，正因如此，他的文字有如此强烈的情感冲击力。 What I heard appeals to me: not to wish to stir up emotions with buildings, I think to myself, but to allow emotions to emerge, to be. And: to remain close to the thing itself, close to the essence of the thing I have to shape, confident that if the building is conceived accurately enough for its place and its function, it will develop its own strength, with no need for artistic additions. The