雅各布+麦克法兰相信他们设计的建筑能够增进人们对项目的理解。他们的建筑不仅成功地避免了对建筑表达不切实际的理想化解读,也防止了对建筑内部逻辑的臆断,或者说防止了理性主义将建筑表达局限在某种语法或句法中间,甚至认为建筑应该屈从于结构上的规则或语言。虽然雅各布+麦克法兰的建筑注重建筑文脉,但文脉的作用不仅仅是对城市历史环境现状的回应,在城市持续发展的过程中建立建筑类型与 Jacob + Macfarlane believes that the buildings they design can enhance people’s understanding of the project. Their architecture not only succeeded in avoiding the unrealistic and idealistic interpretation of the building’s expression but also prevented the assumption of internal logic in the building or prevented rationalism from confining the expression of architecture to some kind of grammar or syntax and even thought that architecture Should be subordinated to structural rules or languages. Although Jacob + Macfarlane’s architecture focuses on the architectural context, the role of context is not merely a response to the current state of the city’s historical environment; it establishes the type of building and