VOA常速英语:流水别墅：建筑技艺与自然和谐共生

The house is called Fallingwater for a reason.It literally sits on top of a waterfall created by a mountain river called Bear Run, making the waterfall part of the house.You can hear it while going to sleep in one of the bedrooms, you can see it under your feet in the living room.
这栋别墅名为“流水别墅”，不无道理。它完全坐落于“熊奔溪”瀑布之上，使瀑布成为别墅的一部分。在这里，潺潺的流水声伴着你进入梦乡， 而置身于客厅，你可以看到瀑布就在你脚下。

Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, owners of Kaufmann’s Department Store in Pittsburgh, wanted to build a weekend home.They hired legendary Frank Lloyd Wright who made their dream come true, integrating the waterfall into the architecture.The final result was so noteworthy:Frank Lloyd Wright’s portrait appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1938 with Fallingwater in the background.
考夫曼夫妇经营着当时匹兹堡最大的百货公司—考夫曼百货，他们打算修建一栋假日别墅。于是聘请了传奇人物弗兰克.劳埃德.赖特（Frank Lloyd Wright），赖特将瀑布融入了建筑设计，让他们的心愿得以实现。最后的结果十分引人注目：1938年，弗兰克.劳埃德.赖特的肖像出现在《时代杂志》的封面上，背景正是流水别墅。

Visitors flocked to the house among them celebrities of the day:Albert Einstein, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, and even the United States’ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
此后，参观者们蜂拥而至，其中不乏各界名流，诸如：阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦、英格丽.褒曼（瑞典著名电影演员）、玛琳.黛德丽（德裔美国好莱坞明星），甚至美国总统富兰克林.德拉诺.罗斯福也曾到访此地。

“It just fit(s) them like a pair of custom shoes for their lifestyle and what they want to achieve here,which was an immediate integration of relaxation in nature.”
“流水别墅就像一双为他们定制的鞋子一样，与他们的生活方式很合拍，在这里，能得到想得到的，即：放松下来，很快地与自然融为一体。”

Wright’s architecture is marked by abstract and geometric forms combined with elements found in nature such as stone, flowers and water.It is also characterized by open spaces filled with light and air, Frank Lloyd Wright was not fond of pictures.The only frames on the wall are all family portraits or paintings by artist dear to the heart of both the architect and the Kaufmann family.These included Diego Rivera painting and a sign joined by Picasso.Walls are replaced by windows, nature in the strict geometric frame.Fallingwater has been a museum since 1964.Smithsonian Magazine named it among the few places you need to visit in your lifetime.In the last 50 years, more than 4 million people have done just that.
赖特建筑的一大特点是，将抽象的几何图形与自然界中可以找到的元素相结合,如石头，花卉和水。另一建筑特点是，打造阳光充足、通风良好的开放空间。弗兰克.劳埃德.赖特不喜欢图片装饰。悬挂在墙上为数不多的镶框照片，或是家庭画像，或是同建筑师和考夫曼家族走的十分亲近的艺术家的画作。这其中有迭戈.里维拉的作品，同时，也可以找到毕加索的画作。墙壁被窗户所取代，透过窗户上布局整饬的几何边框，大自然映入眼帘。自1964年起，流水别墅正式成为对外开放的博物馆。同时，流水别墅也名列《史密森尼》杂志“一生中必须要去的地方”之一。在过去的50年中，参观流水别墅的人数超过了400万。

Masha Morton, VOA News, Mill Run, Pennsylvania.
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