TED演讲:用建筑来获得疗愈(7)
And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial infrastructure.
即使在我的家乡Poughkeepsie，我们想到古老的工业基础设施。
We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt cities across our nation,
我们疑惑：我们能用艺术文化和设计来振兴这个城市吗，还有全国其它一些老旧的条带式城市，
and turn them into centers for innovation and growth?
能把她们变成革新和成长的中心吗？
In each of these projects, we asked a simple question: What more can architecture do?
我们在每个项目上都询问一个简单的问题：建筑师还能够多做些什么？
And by asking that question, we were forced to consider how we could create jobs,
通过这个问题，我们被迫地考虑到我们怎样来完成工作，
how we could source regionally and how we could invest in the dignity of the communities in which we serve.
怎样就地取材，怎样在我们所服务的社区有尊严地投资。
I have learned that architecture can be a transformative engine for change.
我已经学到了建筑可成为变化的转变性引擎。
About a year ago, I read an article about a tireless and intrepid civil rights leader named Bryan Stevenson.
一年以前，我读过一篇文章，是关于一位孜孜不倦的勇敢的民运领袖，他叫Bryan Stevenson。
And Bryan had a bold architectural vision.
Bryan有一个大胆的建筑观点。
He and his team had been documenting the over 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans that have happened in the American South.
他和他的队友们已经记录了在南美发生的超过4000例的美国非裔的私刑案例。
And they had a plan to mark every county where these lynchings occurred,
他们计划标记下这些私刑发生的每一个区县，
and build a national memorial to the victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama.
他们在阿拉巴马的蒙哥马利为私刑的牺牲者建立了一个国家纪念馆。
建筑远远不止是砖头的巧妙安放。在这次演讲中，迈克尔·墨菲显示了他和他的团队如何别具慧眼地看待他们在设计时的蓝图。从气流的因素到光线的考虑，他们全方位地寻求打造社区以及（美观的）建筑物的方法。他带领我们走进一个个项目的旅途，从卢旺达到海地等国，并揭示了正在进行的，雄心勃勃的为建立纪念和平和正义的纪念馆的计划，他希望能在美国南部治愈心灵。