When you build with local materials, you build with local knowledge. This is how architecture becomes truly sustainable.
"The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow."
Money is concerned only with what is common to all, i.e., the exchange value, and it reduces all quality and individuality to the question: How much?
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
老百姓可以长久没有财物,但不能一天没有饭吃。
【译文】 孔子说:“君子有九种事情要考虑:看要考虑是否看清楚了、听要考虑是否听清楚了、脸色要考虑是否温和、表情要考虑是否谦恭、言谈时要考虑是否忠诚、工作时要考虑是否敬业、疑问时要考虑请教、愤怒时要考虑后患、见到好处时要考虑道义。”