如实地讲述设计思考与来源，远比写一段设计说明来得更有意义及重要得多。

Telling the truth about the thoughts and sources of design is far more meaningful and important than writing a design description.

许多平面部署，大的到一城一市，小的到一宅一园，都是我们生活思想的答案，值得我们重新剖视。我们有传统习惯和趣味：家庭组织、生活程度、工作、游息，以及烹饪、缝纫、室内的书画陈设、室外的庭院花木，都不与西人相同。这一切表现的总表现曾是我们的建筑。现在我们不必削足就履，将生活来将就欧美的部署，或张冠李戴，颠倒欧美建筑的作用。我们要创造适合于自己的建筑。—— 摘自：梁思成《中国建筑史》

Many deployment plans, from a big city to a small house or a garden, are the answers to our life and thoughts, which are worth our reflections.. We have our own traditional habits and interests, from family organization, lifestyles, work, leisure, cooking, sewing, indoor painting and calligraphy furnishings to outdoor garden flowers and trees, are not the same as the Westerners. The total expression of the above materials was once presented our architecture. Now we do not have to cut our feet to suit the shoes or live our lives according to the ways that Europeans and Americans lead or confuse ourselves and reverse the role of European and American architecture. We have to create the architecture that suits us. -- From Liang Sicheng‘s The History of Chinese Architecture.

造园，一向是非常传统中国文人的事。关于造园，近两年我常从元代画家倪瓒的《容膝斋图》讲起。那是一张典型的山水画，上段远山，一片寒林；中段池水，倪氏总是留白的；近处几棵老树，树下有亭，极简的四根柱子，很细，几乎没有什么重量，顶为茅草。这也是典型的中国园林格局，若视画的边界为围墙，近处亭榭，居中为池，池前似石似树。但我谈的不是这个，我谈态度。《容膝斋图》的意思，就是如果人可以生活在如画界内的场景中，画家宁可让房子小到只能放下自己的膝盖。——摘自：王澍 《造房子》

Garden building has always been a very traditional Chinese literati affair. About gardening, in the past two years, I often start with the painting of Rongxizhai painted by Ni Zan, a painter in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a typical landscape painting, the upper part of the distant mountains, a cold forest; in the middle of the pool, Ni always leaves it blank, and a few old trees near it, under which stands a pavilion with four simple pillars, very thin and almost weightless, topped with thatched grass. This is also a typical pattern of a Chinese garden. If the border of the painting is viewed as a wall, there is a pavilion near the painting, and the pool in the center, something in front of the pool like a stone and a tree. However, that's not what I'm talking about, and attitude is my key point . The meaning of "Rong Qi Zhai Tu" is that if people can live in the scene within the picturesque boundary, the painter would rather make the house so small that they can only put down they knees, from “Building a House" by Wang Shu.