建筑专业英语课1.4(华中科技大学出版社).docVIP

PAGE 12 建筑专业英语 SECTION 1: ARCHITECTURE PAGE 13 SECTION 1: ARCHITECTURE PAGE 1 TOC \o 2-2 \h \z \u \t 标题 1,1,标题 4,4 1.4 Great Architects and Their Masterpieces 1.4.1 Zaha Hadid — Space for Art This text is from Joseph Giovannini This text is from Joseph Giovannini: Zaha Hadid Space for Art, 1st Edition, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers, 2004. Architectural expectations for a museum are always high because of the aspiration that the structures themselves might be works of art. But hopes were especially elevated at the CAC CAC：Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA CAC：Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA Hadid’s building is quietly complicit complicit a. having HYPERLINK /dictionary/complicity complicity with its surroundings because it grows indirectly out of the city. Sited opposite large-scale modern structures, but adjacent to older buildings in a more finely grained urban fabric, Hadid’s design pivots pivot v. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns the newer neighborhood to the older, suturing suture complicit a. having HYPERLINK /dictionary/complicity complicity pivot v. axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns suture v. an immovable joint springboard n. a flexible board for jumping upward Hadid’s dancing flight of angled stairs is a successor of the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim. Both handle the verticality of a tight city site, encouraging visitors onto an architectural promenade promenade n. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk instead of ushering usher v. promenade n. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk usher v. someone employed to conduct others atria n. the central area in a building; open to the sky …… The CAC competition brief originally called for adaptable loft-like spaces, but Hadid proposed instead what she termed “a catalogue of galleries” that collectively, allowed for a vari