美国国家公共电台 NPR Getty Museum Acquires Collection Of Architect Frank Gehry

 

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Frank Gehry has designed world-renowned buildings, including the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. Recently, the Getty in LA acquired a vast archive of Gehry's work that spans three decades of the legendary¹ architect's career. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE²: Frank Gehry is giving the Getty his collection, everything from scale models of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, with its swooping³ steel curves, to paperclips he had laying around his studio.

FRANK GEHRY: It's so much stuff. I have a big warehouse⁴. I saved everything since my bar mitzvah (laughter). They've only taken part of it.

DEL BARCO: The archive comes from projects he created or started before winning the coveted⁵ Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989.

GEHRY: There are scholars who are interested in it, trying to understand the journey I went on. It's pretty flattering. I'm just knocked out by that.

THOMAS GAEHTGENS: Everybody's interested in Frank Gehry.

DEL BARCO: Thomas Gaehtgens is director of the Getty Research Institute. He's excited to conserve⁶ the work and put it into context. He and senior curator Maristella Casciato say the archive illustrates⁷ how Gehry works, collaborating⁸ with artists and clients, sketching⁹ out ideas, modifying versions of architectural models of, for example, the Disney Concert Hall.

MARISTELLA CASCIATO: The fact that we received the original drawings, which have never been studied, will allow us to also - to understand better the complexity¹⁰ of the building that was finally built.

GAEHTGENS: Look at this. If you look at - from the first model to the last ones, you can see how dramatic and more dynamic this whole process became. And this building stands for emotion and movement, music

CASCIATO: Music.

GAEHTGENS: Music.

DEL BARCO: Gehry is 88 years old and still working. He says he appreciates the Getty preserving his legacy¹¹.

GEHRY: I hope people will realize that I tried to do something special and I had a pile of integrity about what I was doing. I worried about cost control and constructability and all of those kind of things that aren't usually associated with architects like me. I've never really been over budget. I hope they'll find that out (laughter).

DEL BARCO: Scholars and architects will now have a chance to see how he pulled it all off. Mandalit del Barco, NPR News.

1 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 swooping   

俯冲，猛冲( swoop的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The wind were swooping down to tease the waves. 大风猛扑到海面上戏弄着浪涛。
• And she was talking so well-swooping with swift wing this way and that. 而她却是那样健谈--一下子谈到东，一下子谈到西。

4 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

5 coveted   

adj.令人垂涎的；垂涎的，梦寐以求的v.贪求，觊觎(covet的过去分词)；垂涎；贪图

参考例句：

• He had long coveted the chance to work with a famous musician. 他一直渴望有机会与著名音乐家一起工作。
• Ther other boys coveted his new bat. 其他的男孩都想得到他的新球棒。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 conserve   

vt.保存，保护，节约，节省，守恒，不灭

参考例句：

• He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
• Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力，你会用得着的！

7 illustrates   

给…加插图( illustrate的第三人称单数 )； 说明； 表明； （用示例、图画等）说明

参考例句：

• This historical novel illustrates the breaking up of feudal society in microcosm. 这部历史小说是走向崩溃的封建社会的缩影。
• Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had an experience which illustrates this. 阿尔弗莱德 - 阿德勒是一位著名的医生，他有过可以说明这点的经历。 来自中级百科部分

8 collaborating   

合作( collaborate的现在分词 )； 勾结叛国

参考例句：

• Joe is collaborating on the work with a friend. 乔正与一位朋友合作做那件工作。
• He was not only learning from but also collaborating with Joseph Thomson. 他不仅是在跟约瑟福？汤姆逊学习，而且也是在和他合作。

9 sketching   

n.草图

参考例句：

• They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

10 complexity   

n.复杂(性)，复杂的事物

参考例句：

• Only now did he understand the full complexity of the problem.直到现在他才明白这一问题的全部复杂性。
• The complexity of the road map puzzled me.错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了。

11 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。