……我们引以自豪的摩天楼,究竟表现了什么呢?完全是工程取缔建筑的产物。粘在钢架上的石头的背面,隐藏的是封建的堡垒。外强中干,就像其赖以产生的经济体系一样外强中干。 现代建筑受到来自建筑师的诘问,正如小说家、画家接受同行的诘问一样,是件可以预期,自然而然的事。差不多四分之三个世纪以前,当中国大地上尚满目疮痍,鲜有人知现代建筑为何物时,美国建筑大师已对他们那里方兴未艾的都市建筑发起了上面那番振聋发聩的非难,而以摩天大厦代表的现代建筑仍是迄今人们所知最蔚为壮观的美国风景之一。尽管,我毫无保留地相信,赖特先生的话对其他建筑设计师绝非毫无触动,即使他们对这位美国建筑界首屈一指的大师已丧失了尊敬。 What exactly does the skyscraper that we are proud of represent? It is entirely a product of the project’s suppression of architecture. The back of the stone that sticks to the steel frame hides the feudal fortress. The foreign powers are as strong as the economic system they rely on. Modern architecture has been questioned by architects. Just as novelists and painters accept the same questions from their peers, it is a natural thing that can be expected. Almost three quarters of century ago, when the land in China was still full of desolation, and few people knew what modern architecture was, the American architects had launched the above reproachful excuse for their ascendant urban architecture, and they were represented by skyscrapers. The modern architecture is still one of the most spectacular views of the United States ever known. Although, I believe without reservation that Mr. Wright’s words are not without touch to other architects, even if they have lost respect for the American master of architecture.