[April.2018] Form of Knowledge – Werner Oechslin 知识的形式 － 参观Oechslin私人图书馆
Time: Saturday 14.April 14:30
Place: Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Luegeten 11, 8840 Einsiedeln
时间：周六 , 2018.04.14 , 14:30
地点：Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Luegeten 11, 8840 Einsiedeln
Registration: Alisa Voronova
Preside: Tao Wang
Poster: Tao Wang
Fotography: Ruizhe Liang
English Report: Tian Chiang
Chinese Report: Qingchuan Yang
报名：Alisa Voronova
主持：汪弢
海报：汪弢
摄影：梁睿哲
英语报道：江天
中文报道：杨晴川
Werner Oechslin is a widely travelled personality and dedicated collector of knowledge. Having studied archeology, mathematics, history, philosophy in Zurich and Rome, he also taught and lectured at institutions around the world like the MIT in Cambridge, Mass., the FU Berlin and Harvard Graduate School. Until 2006 he was head of the Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture at the ETH Zurich. Since 2015 Oechslin is a speaker at the Tongji University in Shanghai.
Werner Oechslin涉猎广泛、是一个勤劳的知识收集者。他在苏黎世和罗马学习过考古学、数学、历史和哲学，他还曾在麻省理工学院、柏林工大和哈佛大学研究生院等研究机构教学和授课。2006年之前，他是苏黎世联邦理工学院历史与建筑理论研究所的负责人。自2015年起Oechslin担任上海同济大学客座教授。
The SCAA was invited to a lecture about „Forms of Knowledge“ and a guided tour in the Werner Oechslin Library. While sitting in the library hall, where bookshelves reach up to the grey concrete ceiling with its shiny inscriptions, the listeners were drawn into the fascination of books – the essential instruments of creating order in the chaos of knowledge.
瑞士中国建筑师和艺术家协会SCAA受邀参加Werner Oechslin的讲座“知识的形式”，并在他的带领下参观了图书馆。坐在大厅，周边通高的书架从地面直达灰色混凝土天花，天花的梁上还刻着闪亮的铭文，听众的吸引力逐渐引至图书馆的主角：书 – 在知识海洋中创造秩序的基本工具。
Oechslin stated that now, being in the digital age, humans still make the mistake of trying to substitute old knowledge tools with new ones. It would be far wiser to integrate new tools and evaluate their potential for contribution. Most importantly we need to understand that we are facing a huge gap between the capacity of producing information and storing the same. Just recently the National Library of Washington gave up on documenting all Twitter texts by the current president. The skill of making a selection needs to be learned and applied again. In old times librarians mastered a combination of having knowledge and making decisions. Be it J.J. Winckelmann, G.E. Lessing or G.W. Leibniz, all were librarians before becoming the influential characters we know of today.
Oechslin表示，在当前的数字化时代，人们仍然在犯了一个错误：试图用新的知识工具取代旧的知识工具。然而更明智的做法应该是加入并整合新的工具并评估其贡献潜力。最重要的是我们需要明白，我们正在面临生产信息和存储信息能力之间的巨大差距。最近，华盛顿国家图书馆放弃了记录现任总统的Twitter文本。信息选择的技巧需要重新被学习和应用。过去图书馆员掌握着知识的生杀大权，如何组合纪录并筛选知识。 不管是J.J. Winckelmann、G.E. 莱辛或G.W. 莱布尼兹在成为我们今天所知道的有影响力的人物之前都是图书馆员。
History shows that humans have an inherent necessity and ability to create order. Just like the schemes by German Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner, the diagrams created by Majorcan philosopher Raymundus Lullus demonstrate the urge to handle complex issues of the world by creating visual systems and organizing them in books – as forms of knowledge. Many of those have a great beauty in themselves and look like artworks. In a library, books can be viewed and importantly also be touched. By this their content becomes literally comprehensible. Moreover, the library creates a network where all books are connected to each other in a spatial and intellectual context.
历史表明，人类对秩序具有必然的内在需求，人类也具备创造秩序的能力。 就像德国耶稣会士Athanasius Kirchner的计划一样，Majorcan哲学家Raymundus Lullus创建的图表展示了通过创建视觉系统来处理复杂世界问题的愿望，并将这些知识和信息组织在书中，而这些书便是知识的形式。 它们本身就非常优美，看起来就像艺术品。 在图书馆里书籍可以被浏览、被触摸。 由此他们的内容变得可以被理解。 此外图书馆也创建了一个网络，所有书籍在空间和智力背景下相互连接。
And yet there are limits to all the efforts of knowledge mastery. In 1921 Albert Einstein held a lecture called „Geometry and Experience“. He projected the system of mathematics onto reality and concluded that some things are just enigmas – riddles that even he could not solve.
然而，掌握知识的所有努力都是有限的。 1921年，爱因斯坦主持了一场名为“几何与经验”的讲座。 他将数学系统推向了现实，结论是有些东西就是谜 – 即使他也解决不了的谜。
About the library:
The Camino de Santiago in Switzerland leads pilgrims through the pretty town of Einsiedeln and its impressive abbey. It is not by chance that the Werner Oechslin Library is located right on the path. It houses a large collection of not only architectural but also scientific and philosophical books – many of them first editions. It serves as a research center and is also a place for contemplation with a special spirit of discovery – over ground and underground: The whole library complex is a world in itself. Over 60.000 publications are stored in it, with pictures, inscriptions and statues adding to the experience. The modern geometric building by architect Mario Botta is connected to the house of Werner Oechslin by a sequence of subterranean rooms with accentuated incidences of daylight. Inside the enchanting Wunderkammer you can even find a secret stairway hidden behind a bookshelf – leading back to the upper world.
关于图书馆：
朝圣者们沿着圣雅各之路穿过美丽的Einsiedeln镇及令人印象深刻的修道院。Werner Oechslin图书馆坐落于此朝圣之路上并非偶然。 图书馆收藏了大量建筑学、其它科学和哲学书籍 – 其中许多是第一版。作为一个研究中心，图书馆同时也是一个探索未知精神世界的地方 – 地上建筑和地下室：整个图书馆建筑自成一体，本身就是一个世界。 超过六万份出版物存储其中，包括令人印象深刻的图片、铭文和雕像。由建筑师Mario Botta设计的现代几何建筑通过一系列地下室与Werner Oechslin的房子相连。 在迷人的珍奇屋你甚至可以找到隐藏在书架后面的秘密楼梯 – 通往上方世界的神秘通道。
