农业智慧

Agricultural Wisdom

如果所有的东西都有生命的话，我们以前对城市的要求可能有点过于完美化，认为城市一旦建起来或者城市的建筑一旦盖起来，就要永远地保留下去，不但自己喜欢还要儿子喜欢，不但儿子喜欢还要孙子喜欢，子子孙孙永无止境。我们绞尽脑汁去做自己觉得好几代人都会喜欢的东西，其实并没有真的达到好几代人都喜欢的状态，但是每一个建筑师就是认为他创造的东西应该被好几代人喜欢，这样就形成了没有办法去动一个建筑、也没有办法使它再生的局面，这就是建筑的永久性、城市的永久性。这种永久性其实是西方文化的一个根本落脚点，西方人曾经把建筑叫做“纪念物”，就是说，盖起来就是永远。

If everything has life, then our previous requirement of the city was excessive perfection, thinking that as long as the city is built or constructed, it must last for an indefinitely long time, you like it and your son should like it, your son likes it and your grandson should like it, with no end through posterity. We rack our brains to make a structure that we think will be favored by generations, but in fact this cannot be achieved. However, every architect thinks his creation should be favored by generations, which has resulted in the immutable status of a building with no way to make it regenerate. This is the permanence of the building, the permanence of the city. Such permanence is in reality a fundamental aim of Western culture. Westerners call buildings “memorials”, that is to say, once the building is built, it is permanent.

我不认为建筑师应该创造永久性的纪念物，无论是为自己，还是为历史。建筑师永远应该聪明地思考,当这个建筑过期的时候，当这一代人的生活发生变化的时候，你的建筑如何更大尺度地来适应未来对它的需求？这可能是一个非常重要的课题。

I don’t think the architects should create permanent memorials, whether for himself or for history. The architects should always think wisely. When the building expires and when the generation’s lifestyle is changing, how does your building meet the future requirements to a larger extent? This may become an important subject.

希望我们更多地思考农业，用农业的智慧来看待城市，农业是未来的产业。陕西农民有句话说：“甭管你今年有多牛，明年也可能特别惨；甭管你今年有多惨，明年也可能会挺牛。”就是说，你今年收多少麦子也不见得说明你明年就能收更多的麦子，农业永远是为了明天，为了未来的，所以农业是最幸福的行业。

We should consider the role of agriculture more often. One of the ten questions I asked the world curators is, what impact do you think agriculture has on urbanization? Of course, when I was proposing this question, I did not mean to change the city from urban to rural, I just hope all of us can look at the city with agricultural wisdom. Why am I saying this? Because agriculture is the future industry. And why am I saying this? The farmers in Shaanxi Province often say: No matter how lucky you are this year, you may become fortuneless next year; no matter how misfortunate you are this year, you may be happy again next year.” That is to say, you cannot harvest as much wheat next year as you have this year, agriculture lasts forever, for tomorrow and for the future, so the agricultural industry is the happiest industry.

农业的未来建立在对未来可以取代今天的信任上，是我们把信任交给了未来，信任它可以替代今天，这就是农业。但是不好意思，现代工业产生以后，我们信的是今天，总觉得今天比明天好，所以，今天是建立在对未来剥夺的基础上产生的。在这里，我认为农业的智慧需要重新被提出，想象有一天我们的高层建筑可以像麦子一样一茬一茬地割，也不是一个坏的思考。

The future of agriculture is established on the trust that the future will replace what we have today; we have delivered our faith to the future. However, I must admit that after the appearance of modern industries, we believe that today is the best we will have, and that today is better than tomorrow. This idea is established on the deprivation of the future. Here I think that we should apply our agricultural wisdom to our high-rise buildings; they can be harvested time and again like wheat.