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摘要

The engineer and architect must go back to basic principles, must keep abreast with and consult the scientist for new knowledge, redevelop judgment of the behavior of structures, and acquire a new sense of form derived from design-rather than piece together parts of convenient fabrication. The invention of architectural form fuses the flux of immaterial thought with the promise of physical things. Spanning the gulf between design intentions and effective artifacts is a supremely human endeavor. Today, as Kahn suggested, it may be limited to the banal process of "piec[ing] together parts of conventional fabrication." On the other hand, it can be an extraordinarily creative act that takes us back to the foundations of our species.