如果一塊磚會說話──關於作為轉譯的展覽，以及一個新興世代設計智慧的可分享性

Ifa Brick Could Speak On Exhibition as Translation, and the Shareability of an Emerging Cohort's Design Intelligence

有些設計文化容易跨越邊界，有些則不然。以圖像與概念為核心的建築實踐，像是香辣的菜餚或料理，香料在乾燥後仍能保留風味的本質，即使以手邊的其他新鮮食材料理，韻味依舊。但那些必須與在地氣候、身體、社會節奏與場所紋理細緻協商的設計，則像是海鮮料理，難以遠行。

The construction was simple. Three bricks: two upright, one laid across the top. In Hong Kong, in 2019, protesters made them by the thousand from common construction material. You could sit on one to rest. You could stand on one to get a better view. Collectively, the arches slowed heavy vehicles. They cost nothing, assembled in seconds, and required no master plan. They were, in our view, among the most articulate instances of public architecture of the decade, and pointed toward a way of working we have come to recognize across this cohort and the wider region. In Louis Kahn's playfully imagined conversation with the brick, he asked what it wanted to be. The brick said it wanted to be an arch. In Hong Kong, in 2019, the brick made its own.