What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and the 1980s by Deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some transmit multiplicity, others unity; some transmit cellularity, others openness; some transmit dematerialization, o...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•诺思•怀特海（Alfred North Whitehead），英国著名的数学家、哲学家和教育理论家，他是20世纪庞大的形而上学体系——“过程哲学”的创始人，同时也是学界公认的20世纪伟大的哲学家之一，他在宇宙论、认识论、宗教学说三个方面超越了前人。他的《过程与实在》一书，堪与康德的《纯粹理性批判》媲美。21世纪，怀特海的过程哲学影响遍及全球：他的万物皆有物质极和精神极的理论成为现代生态学的哲理基础；物理学中的量子论印证了他的学说。 周邦宪，翻译家。1996年开始致力于翻译、介绍怀特海的过程哲学。先后译有怀特海的《观念的冒险》《过程与实在》《宗教的形成》《符号的意义及效果》，美国过程哲学家罗伯特•梅斯勒的《过程—关系哲学：浅释怀特海》，美国建设性后现代哲学家大卫•雷•格里芬的《解开世界之死结》《复魅何须超自然主义》《怀特海的另类后现代哲学》...(展开全部)

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

Winner of the 8th Annual AIA International Architecture Book Award for CriticismCan architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion' s claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers tha...(展开全部)

Winner of the 8th Annual AIA International Architecture Book Award for CriticismCan architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion' s claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers tha...(展开全部)

美国文学评论界的领军人物，被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。她于1933年出生于马萨诸塞州，1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟•金斯利•波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，被誉为具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”，是一位“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。