感谢邀请我参加今天的活动。我既不是建筑师也不是中国专家,所以你们可能会怀疑我在这样一个关于中国文化建筑的会议中会做些什么。我将会用一些论述来解释为什么我能为这次会议有所贡献。我并非建筑师,但我在过去一些年中经常同建筑师一起工作。在北京,我拍摄了一部关于奥运会的长期纪录片,时间跨越2003年到2008年。我20余次来到北京,经历了从鸟巢破土动工到奥运会开幕(图1)。我见证了体育场的整个建造过程,见到了负责该项目的瑞士建筑师赫尔佐格和德梅隆所做的准备工作。我必须要说,我不仅仅经历了这座标志性建 Thank you for inviting me to join today’s event. I am neither an architect nor a Chinese expert, so you may wonder what I would do in such a conference on Chinese culture and architecture. I will use some expositions to explain why I can contribute to this meeting. I am not an architect, but I have often worked with architects over the past few years. In Beijing, I shot a long documentary on the Olympic Games spanning from 2003 to 2008. I came to Beijing more than 20 times and broke ground from the Bird’s Nest to the opening of the Olympic Games (Figure 1). I witnessed the entire construction of the stadium and saw the preparation by Herzog and De Mellon, the Swiss architect in charge of the project. I must say that I have not only experienced this iconic construction