《新共生思想》的作者黑川纪章是日本著名的建筑师，他的很多建筑作品如：国立民族学博物馆、广岛市现代美术馆、澳大利亚墨尔本中心、吉隆坡新国际机场、荷兰梵·高美术馆等等，在日本国内和国际上都有一定的声誉。他获得过美国、英国、法国等国家的政府和建筑协会的嘉奖、授勋。他也是获得日本文化艺术界最高荣誉——日本艺术院院士称号的为数不多的建筑师之一。
黑川纪章和与他同时代的日本著名建筑师一样，在从事建筑创作的同时，还出版了大量的建筑理论著作，被公认是长于理论的建筑师，《共生思想》便是他一生中撰写的影响最大的一部建筑理论著作。《共生思想》一书初版于1987年，是黑川纪章以其“共生哲学”为主线，对他几十年来形成的设计思想进行的总结和阐述。该书出版以后，在建筑界产生了较大的影响，是20世纪的纪典建筑名著之一，曾被翻译成多种语言，在世界各地出版发行。
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《社会人文因素对中国古代建筑形成和发展的影响》在翔实的建筑实物材料和文献记载的基础上，从古代哲学思想、伦理观念、礼法制度、文化传统、艺术倾向、生活习俗、宗教信仰甚至民间迷信等社会和人文诸方面因素对这个建筑体系的形成与发展的作用进行探讨，更全面地了解中国古代建筑的特点和形成过程及其发展规律，总结我国在这个领域的独特成就、历史经验及教训。

《中国古代城市规划、建筑群布局及建筑设计方法研究（第二版 套装上下册）》共分为上、下两册，上册为论文，下册为图册，配有274幅严谨、准确、精美的插图。傅熹年先生通过对中国古代城市规划、建筑群布局及建筑设汁方法的系统研究，发现并向世人展示出“中国古代建筑确有..套规划设计原则、方法和艺术构图规律”。这些规律随着时代前进不断发展完善，正是由丁有这些原则、方法和规律控制，中国古代建筑才能在不断发展、推陈出新的同时做到承前启后、一脉相承，保持这一独特建筑体系的独立性和延续性。
《中国古代城市规划、建筑群布局及建筑设计方法研究（第二版 套装上下册）》适合高等院校建筑系师生、建筑师、规划师、建筑历史及理论工作者阅读参考。

Architects' Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. Organised largely by building type, and with over 6000 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements and also covers planning criteria and considerations of function and siting. Most illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details. There are substantial new sections on: building components services heating lighting thermal and sound insulation fire protection designing for the disabled An extensive bibliography and a detailed set of metric/imperial conversion tables are included. Since it was first published in Germany in 1936, Ernst Neufert's handbook has been progressively revised and updated through 35 editions and many translations. This Third Edition of the English language version has been revised for the first time in 20 years and completely reworked, with 40% more material, to provide a major new edition for an international readership. Browse sample pages and buy online: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/architectsdata

本书试图提供一种从不同角度分析城市问题和解读城市文本的价值视野，并从四种角度看待和认识城市：一是建筑和城市领域内对城市价值观念的变革，将城市视为一种人工建造的实体环境加以认识；二是将城市理解为一种时间和空间的集合体；三则是将城市理解为一个“市场”的模型，四是将城市视作人的集合体。
本书对于我们如何认识城市，如何从不同的价值视角评判城市的优劣得失提供了有益的启示，提醒我们拓出专业视野的局限进行这些关于城市的哲学思考。同时，本书为我们展示了当代世界城市研究的最新进展、和突破，为我们提供了大量非常有益的咨讯，对于从事和城市有关的学习者、从业者和学术研究者都具有重要的参考价值。

本书是第一本全面介绍自1968年以来过去40多年间重要的建筑理论和建筑思想的图书。它以敏锐而生动的文字阐述了深刻的问题，描述了发生在建筑思想领域中的一场真正的革命，以及这种知识大动荡所带来的影响。本书也是第一本完整的且具有批判性的建筑理论史，它涉及了广泛意义上的建筑理论架构，包括城市规划、建筑结构和景观设计；涵盖了对自1968年以来的建筑思想史的调查（包括对高技派现代主义的批判、后现代主义和后结构主义理论的兴起，批判的地域主义和建构），全面回顾了过去15年在建筑思想中所产生的显著变化，系统介绍了1970年代、1980年代、1990年代三个10年中出现的新的理论观点及其代表人物和代表作品，总结、分析了建筑领域的现状及其未来一些年可能会出现的趋势。
本书实例充足、文字生动，观点鲜明，条理清晰，语言通俗易懂，具有一定的思想深度。对我国建筑师、城市规划师和相关专业的在校师生而言，这无疑是本很有价值的建筑理论文献，而对建筑历史、建筑理论感兴趣的一般读者而言，本书也具有较高的可读性。

In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric--has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.Contributors : Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Archizoom, George Baird, Jennifer Bloomer, Massimo Cacciari, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Alan Colquhoun, Maurice Culot, Jacques Derrida, Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Frank Gehry, Jurgen Habermas, John Hejduk, Denis Hollier, Bernard Huet, Catherine Ingraham, Fredric Jameson, Charles A. Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Sanford Kwinter, Henri Lefebvre, Daniel Libeskind, Mary McLeod, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jose Quetglas, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Massimo Scolari, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Segrest, Jorge Silvetti, Robert Somol, Martin Steinmann, Robert A. M. Stern, James Stirling, Manfredo Tafuri, Georges Teyssot, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Paul Virilio, Mark Wigley.

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly’s Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly’s legacy.
Summary: This book is great
Rating: 5
I read this book for school... but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter. (Reading it, I was always wandering around talking to friends and family about it). The book is short, but there is a lot to think about. :)
Summary: How urban areas work
Rating: 5
Years ago I watched an episode of NOVA on PBS on William H. Whyte that explained the background and purpose and accomplishments of his project to study what makes urban spaces in cities work. I sat there riveted, as he methodically and carefully unveiled a vast range of urban phenomena of which I had hitherto been unaware.
The background to his study was this: following the enormous success of the plaza of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York in the mid-1950s, the city began to give tax breaks to new buildings that included plazas as part of their design. At the Seagram, people found in the heart of the city a marvelous space in which to congregate, to eat lunch, to sit and talk, and just enjoy a few minutes away from the office. While the idea of providing an incentive to new plaza development was unquestionably a great aim, a small problem developed: many of the new plazas were, unlike that of the Seagram, just dreadful. Cold, austere, people unfriendly, unwelcoming, many of them seemed designed more to keep people away than give them a place to enjoy themselves. This is where Whyte comes in. New York City was concerned with codifying what made a successful plaza, and giving tax breaks based more on the kind of plaza being built, rather than any kind of plaza at all. So, Whyte was charged with discovering precisely what goes into a successful urban space. The results of his exhaustive study are summed up in this brilliant monograph.
Whyte took cameras and began filming all kinds of urban spots in plazas and parks, and on regular sidewalks. As a result of this study, he was able first to analyze how urban spaces work, and secondly on the basis of this make, to make suggestions as to how to make successful spaces. He discusses the enormous value and utility of using fountains or falling water both to provide aesthetic benefits and to create a barrier of white noise between an urban space and the street. He shows the value of having a variety of steps and levels in providing fun places to sit. He allays the fears of those who are afraid that a plaza will attract undesirables by showing that the homeless tend to go where other people are not. He displays the patterns of traffic on sidewalks and the function that street food can play. Whyte comes across not merely as a sophisticated urban planner and social scientist: he is revealed as a visionary.
I think that this ought to be a must-read for anyone with any curiosity about cities and the potential they possess for a vibrant and exciting social life. Here in my own city of Chicago, I constantly lament that Whyte's lessons go unheeded and unlearned. We Chicagoans take pride in how clean our downtown area is, but we possess very, very few plazas, instead having virtually all of our buildings coming all the way to the edge of the sidewalk. I lament that there are so few places in the Loop and the near North to sit at lunch, that so very, very little has been done along the river to make it people friendly, and that there are so few places to congregate. We have a gorgeous, inpirational skyline, but on the sidewalk level, things are different. I wish our city planners had more of Whyte's view of things.
Summary: A classic case study for urban design professionals
Rating: 5
Although the photographs are dated, the material is classic. This book is a must for anyone who is involved with design or review of open spaces. It shows how people use open space and identifies the common elements of successful spaces. While the elements all seem logical, the book shows how we often fly in the face of logic when using these spaces. The book focuses primarily on plazas and small parks in New York City, but includes a section for smaller cities with low rise buildings. The information can also be applied to parks in any size town. This book is a facinating case study in social ecology.

Winner of the 1997 Alice Davis Hitchcock MedallionAnyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory.Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.

我们在野外进行文物调查时，往往遇到一些古代建筑，判断它有没有历史文物价值，鉴定年代是一项基本工作。对一座古代建筑，只有确定了它的年代，才能放在一定的历史时期去进行研究，揭示它在建筑发展史中的地位，判断它的历史文物价值。鉴定年代不是研究古代建筑的最终目的，也不能只根据年代来决定其价值，但断代是进一步研究和确定其价值的必不可少的基本条件。
本文是根据现存的各时代的建筑实物，初步总结了它们本身所具有的时代特征，按构件的顺序，分别叙述。但是，每座古代建筑自创建以后，都经过后代的修缮、改建，必须分辨出来。所以本文首先介绍一点调查工作中的经验和确定年代的一般原则，以供实际作文物建筑调查的同志参考。

杰弗里·巴瓦堪称亚洲现代建筑奠基人之一，其建筑特点在于巧妙地根据气候、地理条件，将本土风格与现代主义建筑语言融合起来。
本书旨在综合记录和鉴赏这位建筑师和他的作品。第Ⅰ部分的章节介绍了巴瓦的早期生活和影响。全书的核心（第Ⅱ和第Ⅲ部分）完整呈现了他最重要的作品，包括一些鲜少发表的项目，从他早期职业生涯，到最重要的建筑案例，再到两个持续多年的自宅项目（科伦坡33街自宅和卢努甘卡庄园）。附录部分包含了完整的巴瓦作品年表。
少有建筑师能够像斯里兰卡建筑师杰弗里·巴瓦那样，将现代形式及感受和谐舒适地融入本土建筑传统。他和他设计的建筑已经成为斯里兰卡的传奇，并影响到世界各地。
然而，对于这位堪称亚洲现代建筑奠基人之一的建筑大师，国内建筑界却知之甚少。虽然这种情形在近年来有所改观，但所涉范围仍然极小，可资研读的出版物仍然寥寥。这本《杰弗里·巴瓦作品全集》原版由英国Thames & Hudson出版社出版，出自最权威作者之手，不仅完整呈现了巴瓦最重要的作品，而且结合他的生活背景、所处时代以及斯里兰卡国内形势的变化加以分析。
中文版忠实再现了原版书的全部内容，全书包含500余幅图片，其中250幅彩图，提供了最完整的对巴瓦其人、其事、其作品的资料，将非常有助于国内建筑学师生及相关从业者了解巴瓦的作品及他的“地区现代主义”设计思想。

本书稿综合了作者多年园林研究的理论探索和实践，共分为九章，以园林的重要组成部分如山石、理水、林木、装折等为线索，讨论了传统园林中这些组成部分营造的优劣及其后的人文内涵，以广阔的视角同时比对西方和日本相关内容；同时，结合人在庭园中的居游等活动，再现了园林式的居住理想，阐明“中国注入到日常栖居的文化之深之广……只有西方中世纪教堂蕴含的栖居文化，才堪可匹敌”。因此，在当下的建筑实践中，作者身体力行了园林式的实践——造园。

安东尼·弗林特在《勒·柯布西耶：为现代而生》一书里，生动刻画了这位20世纪现代主义建筑大师的形象：一位天才，一个花花公子，永远的领结+圆黑框眼镜的绅士装扮。他想要把住宅变成“居住的机器”，从马赛公寓、朗香教堂，到纽约联合国总部大厦的早期方案再到印度昌迪加尔新城，他最杰出的发明包罗万象。通过对档案资料的细致爬梳、对当事者的深入访谈以及亲身体验柯布最伟大的建成作品，弗林特描绘了柯布一生的雄心壮志，带我们一起经历他的成功与失败。

这本书分城市广场、邻里公园、小型公园和袖珍公园、大学校园户外空间、老年住宅区户外空间等部分，系统地阐述了城市空间设计的理论与实践。作者认为美学目标必须与生态需要、文脉目标和使用者三方面取得平衡并相互融合。

《明日之城》是一部关于20世纪城市规划的理论与实践的历史，也是一部关于引导城市规划形成的社会经济问题和机遇的历史。它文锋犀利，洞察力强，涉及全球，无与伦比地记述了书中极其重要的主题。
《明日之城》的第三版是在它初版之后，考虑到最新出版文献的丰富性，并以历史视角来看待1990年代，从而进行了一次综合性修订。这是回顾了整个20世纪现代城市规划运动的发展修订而成的完整版本。

刘易斯·芒福德是西方人文科学与城市－区域理论界一位久负盛誉的学者，也是世界规划界和建筑界极受尊敬的大师。他一生著述颇多，涉及的领域很广，本书即是从他30多部专著和上千篇论文中精选出来的，所选内容既囊括了每一个主要的专业领域，同时又在时间顺序和逻辑层次上，展现了这个思想家的成长脉络。本书共七章，首章讲述作者立志；继而分别讨论建筑、城市文明、城市及区域的未来、美国研究、技术与文明，最后以作者1979年获奖答谢演讲结束全书。本书可以使人们不必花费太多的时间，就能了解这位大学者思想的精华所在。

《摩登上海的象征:沙逊大厦建筑实录与研究》以这次的测绘为基础，结合新的材料和观点，对沙逊大厦的由来、变迁和所属风格进行了深入的研究，具有较高的学术水平、鉴赏意义和研究借鉴价值。上海锦绣文章出版社将这本书作为重点图书出版，我认为是颇具文化眼光的，将为上海近代建筑史的研究做出显著的贡献。

鲁道夫维特科尔编的《人文主义时代的建筑原理》*初是于1949年作为《瓦尔堡学院研究》第19卷出版的。第二版则是由Alec Tiranti有限公司于1952年出版的，该出版社随后于1962年出了修改过的第三版。此版由Academy Editions出版社于1962年再版。1973年，Academy Editions出版社为此书图片进行了重新标号并将之直接插入正文内，以这样新版式的完整版，发行了本书的第四版。 这一版本里包含了一些维特科尔教授迄今为止尚未发表过的论比例的讲演稿和文章。这些文本是由他的遗孀慷慨提供给我们的。附录四是我们依据维特科尔不同手稿进行摘录编辑成文的。