每一个建筑师都会对材料——这种构成建筑的要素,有自己的理解,从没有一个建筑师会否认它对于建筑的塑造能力。但在众多的建筑师中,再没有谁会比赫佐格和德穆隆更加热衷于此,并尝试使用各种不同的材料以及探索不同材料组合的多种可能性。他们的建筑,总给人一种既熟悉又陌生的感觉。他们设计的建筑大都是矩形六面体,但构成这些极其简单的方盒子的材料,却是那么难以琢磨。他们并不关心空间和体量本身,而是更关注于构成空间和体量的表面(表皮),甚至只关心构成表面的材料。他们所使用的材料,从玻璃、铜皮、 Every architect will have his own understanding of the material—the element that constitutes the building—and no architect has ever denied its ability to shape architecture. But among the many architects, no one will be more enthusiastic about this than Herzog and De Mulron, and try to use a variety of different materials and explore the possibilities of different combinations of materials. Their architecture always gives people a feeling of familiarity and strangeness. The buildings they designed were mostly rectangular hexahedrons, but the materials that make up these extremely simple square boxes are so hard to ponder. They do not care about the space and the mass itself, but instead pay more attention to the surface (the epidermis) that forms the space and mass, and even to the material that constitutes the surface. The materials they use are from glass, copper,