This is a book about structures that shows students how to "see" structures as integral to architecture, and how knowledge of structures is the basis for understanding both the mechanical and conceptual aspects inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best known works of architecture from past and present alike, this book places th...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·G·马奇（James G.March），斯坦福大学的管理学弗莱德.H·梅芮尔教授，以及政治学和社会学教授。他除了于专业期刊上发表多篇论文外，还在组织与行为学领域出版了九部专著。 约翰·P·奥尔森（Johan P.Olsen），挪威卑尔根大学的政治学教授，他出版过九部专著，并在众多学术研究协会和政治组织中担任顾问。

Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of p...(展开全部)

本书为彼得·埃森曼的博士论文。通过从内部向普适性理念提出质疑，埃森曼的论文揭露了现代建筑的根本性困局(aporia)，进而迫使读者不汲汲于浅显易得的内容，而开始把关注点从图像化的建筑外观向下深入，深读建筑。像阅读文本一样阅读建筑，哪怕是不可避免地伴随着龃龉与支吾、繁复与缺漏、理屈与词穷，这无疑是在概念上和智识上批判性地破旧立新的第一步。埃森曼和罗的隐微对话贯穿于他的博士论文全篇，来往之间，他逐渐找到了一个远离核心的位置。就此而论，我们虽然在传统上被认为是西方建筑学的局外人，但也正因如此，反而受惠于旁观者的身份而有望施展同等水准的批判力量——不仅仅从西方建筑学的外部，更是在中国建筑学的内部。埃森曼在知识论断裂的破晓写就此文，而此时此刻的我们也身负同等紧迫的任务。有鉴于此，今天的我们在阅读本书的时候，必应背负着一种责任感。

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

"Warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge."--Charles C. Gillespie, "New York Times Book Review"

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

The technique of folding in contemporary architecture is vividly illustrated with a survey of much-discussed concepts, projects, and buildings in which this technique was applied. This book is compulsory for every architect wishing to design outside the mainstream.

More than 240 rare photographs and drawings highlight this excellent pictorial record and analysis of Chinese architectural history. Based on years of unprecedented field studies by the author, the illustrations depict many of the temples, pagodas, tombs, bridges, and imperial palaces comprising China's architectural heritage. 152 halftones, 94 diagrams.