钢琴和弦怎么练:帮忙翻译一下“工业设计”的英语文章（下）

That doesn't mean that there is no room for individuality, wit or humour, but what I detest in post-modern architecture, for example, is the absence of any analysis, and the elevation of superficial wit to the level of a general principle. Architecture is a durable statement, and it has to be about the nature of the present: it has to be a witness of its time, signed by an individual architect. The analysis I describe is the starting point, but there comes a moment of synergy when the argument is in place, when it is essentially possible to fix the concept. The work, miraculously, almost, becomes plastic rather than verbal; memory and attention take over, and everything learnt fuses its plastic and connotatory values into a new object, more ambiguous, more mysterious, an oeuvre d'art. For these reasons, architects should take designing furniture or lighting or products as a serious matter. Some classic designs - for chairs, for example - can last fifty, seventy or even a hundred years or more. A piece of antique furniture is still a witness to its age, can still make a true statement, even if in terms of use it is more appropriate to the age of Louis XII, X IV or X V ! But the only valid reason for changing the design of an object has to be based on a change in need, in purpose, in the social and temporal situation. Nothing fills me with more horror than seeing someone try to change the design of a wine glass, for example, to fit a new and more fashionable style. The shape of a traditional Bordeaux glass has evolved over time to meet its own rationale. Any ehange in its form has to come from outside, not from the whims of a designer. So we can talk about a category of design basics, objects which keep their own function, which have been developed through a craft process, through the years, unmarked by style. They should not be changed, not out of reverence for the past but because there is no need to change them. Modifying them for commercial, marketing or economic reasons is a dilution of their content, a banalization of design.