一篇申请哈佛大学设计学院的文书(附英文原文).

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　　下面是一篇申请哈佛大学设计学院的文书，这篇文章之所以能吸引人的眼球，既由于内容丰富真实，也由于脉络清晰明了。由于是申请哈佛大学，所以作者不仅通过自己的成就，而且还通过与身边人作比较，充分地塑造了自己创新、不走寻常路、不拘泥于常规思维这一鲜明人物个性。下面就是这篇申请哈佛大学设计学院的文书。

　　森林里有两条分叉路，我选择了一条平时比较少人经过的，正是因为这样我所经历的一切都变得不一样了。

　　- Robert Frost-

　　你曾经选择去走一些比较少人经过的路吗?当你从上班的地方开车回家，你是否会选择一些比较偏僻的不一样的路呢?当然，这可能比你平常要花多一点的时间，也可能一路上你会因为一些障碍物而不断地停车，但是有时候你却会获得一些意外的收获。当我们抛开常规做法去冒险的时候，我们或许可以完成一些我们认为绝不可能的事情。

　　我发现很多处身于资本主义社会里的人无论何时都只寻求一条最快速、最经济和最有效率的道路。当某些行业寻求多样化和创新的时候，很多人却害怕作出新的尝试。特别是很多出名的建筑师和开发商害怕机遇所带来的挑战和新尝试新方法所带来的失败。然而在另一方面我却认为建筑师不应该局限于过去但应该尽量开拓各种可能。

　　开拓新方法和新道路是需要自我批评、自信和勇气的。在我大学三年级的时候，当我第一次去上我的设计课的时候，我就对我的讲师的教学方式表示怀疑。我感觉到他似乎想把自己一些比较死板的思想灌输给我们，从而阻碍学生创新思维的发展和学生对自己最原始创造的追求。由于害怕自己的专业发展会受到这个讲师的不良影响和自己对他的教学方式不是很满意，于是我决定通过自学来加深自己对设计的理解。在自学过程中，我意识到设计学是要靠学习来掌握的，而不是靠鼓吹的。那一学期，我通过进行自己的设计来进一步锻炼自己，而这个设计题目并不是老师所指定的。我知道沿用老师所指定的设计方法和理念是一条比较容易走的路，但我告诉自己我绝不会再走容易之路，同时我也发现了建筑之美在于自我学习和自我开拓。那个学期里我的设计方法得到了规范，这同时也影响了我今天在设计方法的选择上。

　　虽然主动性在学习过程中是非常重要的，但寻求别人的指导和批评对于一个好的设计来说也是同样重要的，因为别人能够找出你所忽略了的细节。一位对于我的作品成长历程起到及其关键作用的评论家是Craig Scott先生，他与Homa Fardjadi 、ima Fardjadi两位先生共同完成的作品获得了1996年的进步建筑大奖。Craig是1997年的我的一位作品评论家。他的指导让我的设计上升了一个水平，这是我从书本上所无法获得的。他教会了我在设计的过程中要将方法论和理论知识相结合，这对于一位建筑师来说是及其重要的。同时他还教会了在设计开始之前我应该在脑子里有一个概念模型，然后再一步步地往模型里面添加内容并注意一些设计规则以保证建筑工程的综合完整。将方法论应用于设计过程当中使我的设计比以前更具结构性和稳固性。

　　在Craig的工作室，我设计了一个安阿伯市市区的家具仓库，这一个设计被选中在密歇根州大学举行的97界夏季学生展览会里参展。教授们都挑选他们工作室里最满意的作品并展示在这一展览会里。虽然这个荣耀并不算什么，但是它足可以证明我在工作室里所取得的成绩同时也是我建筑事业生涯中的一个里程碑。当我在展览厅看到我的作品的时候，顿时觉得以前我所经历过的失败和困难都是值得的。后来，在97年秋季的时候我也设计了一个安阿伯市市区的住宅区，同样的这个设计也被选中了在98年的年度学生展览会上参展。那个展览会的主题是“瞄准目标”。展览会上每个教授都挑选他们工作室里最好的作品来参展。很多旧校友还有其他建筑学校的学生们都被邀请来分享我们的成功和喜悦。这些展览会对于我来说是非常重要的，这并不是因为我的作品可以参展而是因为他们给了我机会在接受大众批评之前把作品展示在大家面前，而这些大众批评包括不同界不同学校的老师和学生所提出的批评意见。

　　于是我计划继续攻读研究生课程以寻求更多与同样专注和热爱建筑学的学生交流的机会。我曾经几度参观哈佛大学的设计研究院，每一次学生们多样化和及其复杂的作品都给我留下了深刻的印象，同时我也被启发了。在设计研究院所看到的作品有着创新和新颖的元素，这些元素是我要追求的也是超越寻常之路之上的。我想成为一名开拓者，怀着坚定的意志和创新的精神，我可以去很好的面对挑战和解决挑战所带来的困难。

　　这篇申请哈佛大学设计学院的文书之所以鹤立鸡群，是由于作者展现了令人印象深刻的个性特征，使你想更深入地了解他。这是一个在你写自己文章时要牢记的成功组合。这篇哈佛大学的文书的特色体现在：以小见大、文章结构合理、画龙点睛，大家可以作为重点参考。

附英文原文：

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

　　- Robert Frost-

Have you ever taken the road less traveled? When you drive home from work, do you ever explore? Sure, it might take longer than usual, and there may be unpleasant stops along the way, but occasionally you will find an unexpected surprise. By casting aside strict conventions and routines and by taking risks, we can achieve things we never considered or thought possible.

I find that many people in our religiously capitalist society only seek the fastest, cheapest, and most ficient route. While some industries hire to increase diversity and thereby innovation, many dare not attempt anything new. In particular, many established architects and developers fear taking chances and fear the risk of failure inherent in untested methods. I, on the other hand, believe that architects must not feel constrained by the past but must follow-up on promising possibilities.

Exploring undiscovered methods and paths requires self-criticism, self-assurance, and courage. In my junior year in college, I doubted the teaching style of my instructor in my first design studio class. I felt as if he pushed his own rigid ideas into the students’ creations and did not allow the students the opportunity to pursue their own original designs. Fearing my intellectual growth might be stunted by his lectures and dissatisfied with his teaching, I basically taught myself design by researching and combing through hundreds of architecture books. Through my own studies, I came to realize that architecture should be learned, not preached. That semester, I further challenged myself by working on a design of my own creation, a design not assigned by my instructor. While it would have been easier to accept the instructor’ s lessons and just follow his ideas, I realized that I could never take the easy way again now that I discovered that the beauty of architecture lies in learning it myself. That semester helped formulate my approach towards architecture and influence my design decisions to this day.

Although self-motivation is extremely important, seeking the guidance and critique of others is essential to good design since others can find what I may have overlooked. One critic who has been particularly crucial to the development of my work is Craig Scott, a Progressive Architecture Awards Winner in 1996,who worked together with Homa Fardjadi and Sima Fardjadi. Craig was my studio critic during the spring term of 1997. His instruction helped me achieve a level of design that I could not have attained from books alone. Of greatest importance, he taught me a combination of methodology and theory to the process of creating designs. He taught me to begin with a simple conceptual spatial model, then add site context and programmatic concerns to create an integrated building. The application of a methodology to the design process made my work more structured and rigorous than bore.

In Craig’ s studio, I designed a furniture workshop for downtown Ann Arbor that was chosen as an exhibit in the 1997 Summer Student Exhibition in the University of Michigan. Professors chose the most outstanding projects in their studio and put them in the exhibition. Although this was certainly not a major trophy, the exhibition represented my first accomplishment in the studio and was a milestone in my architectural career. When I saw my work in the exhibition room, all the failures and difficulties I had experienced seemed worth it. Later, I designed urban housing in downtown Ann Arbor for the fall studio 1997,which was also chosen as an exhibit in the 1998 Annual Student Exhibition. For that exhibition, entitled &apos&aposTaking Aim, &apos&apos each professor chose the best three projects from his/her studio. In the exhibition, the alumni of previous years and students from other architecture schools were invited to share our success. These exhibitions were important to me not only because my designs were chosen, but also because they gave me the opportunity to display my work bore the most important critics of all -- the general public, which included the students and teachers from different years and different schools.

I plan to continue my studies at the graduate school level to have the opportunity to interact and share knowledge with students who are as focused and excited about architecture as I am. I have visited Harvard Graduate School of Design several times, and each time I lt impressed and enlightened by the variety and complexity of the students&apos&apos work. The work I saw at GSD had that same element of innovation and freshness that I strive for, the one that goes beyond the ordinary path. I want to be an explorer and to face challenges that I can solve with sheer will and creativity.