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And there was my father, standing with me outside, admiring a day's work,
而我的父亲和我一起站在外面，欣赏着一天的工作，
hair on his head, fully in remission, when he turned to me and he said, "You know, Michael, this house saved my life."
他头上的发重新长了出来，他走向我对我说：“你知道迈克这栋房子救了我。”
So the following year, I decided to go to architecture school.
所以第二年我去了建筑学院。
But there, I learned something different about buildings.
在那儿我学到了关于楼房的很多不同的东西。
Recognition seemed to come to those who prioritized novel and sculptural forms, like ribbons, or ... pickles?
成名似乎都是给那些最先革新和雕塑的形式，比方说缎带或者是腌黄瓜条？
And I think this is supposed to be a snail.
但我认为这应该是一个蜗牛。
Something about this bothered me.
这很让我烦恼。
Why was it that the best architects, the greatest architecture -- all beautiful and visionary and innovative
为什么最好的建筑，最伟大的建筑，全是美丽、创新和标新立异的，
is also so rare, and seems to serve so very few?
而且极其罕见，并且只有少数人能够享受？
And more to the point: With all of this creative talent, what more could we do?
再加上一点：在这些创造性的天分之上，我们还能做些什么呢？
Just as I was about to start my final exams, I decided to take a break from an all-nighter
就在我要我开始我期末考试的时候，我决定从通宵的学习中偷个懒，
and go to a lecture by Dr. Paul Farmer, a leading health activist for the global poor.
我去了Paul Farmer医生的一个演讲，他是一个健康活动家领袖，为了全球的贫困而努力。
I was surprised to hear a doctor talking about architecture.
我很惊奇地听到一个医生谈论到关于楼房的事情。
Buildings are making people sicker, he said, and for the poorest in the world, this is causing epidemic-level problems.
他说，在全世界最贫困的地方，这引起了流行病程度上的问题。
In this hospital in South Africa, patients that came in with, say, a broken leg,
在南非的医院，比如说一个腿骨折的病人来到医院，
to wait in this unventilated hallway, walked out with a multidrug-resistant strand of tuberculosis.
在通风不好的大厅等候，就会带着几种抗药性的结核病菌种走出医院。
Simple designs for infection control had not been thought about, and people had died because of it.
根本没有想到为控制感染的简单设计，人们因此而死亡。
