Trees are one of the most ubiquitous religious symbols across the world. From ancient Sumer to Christianity, from the Maya civilization to Buddhism, there’s hardly a human society over the ages that hasn’t associated trees with some sort of celestial and religious power.
Due to its expressive quality and natural branching scheme, trees have also become important communication tools, illustrating a variety of topics such as family ties, moral values, systems of law, domains of science, biological species, hard disk drives, database schemas, and online discussions.
The Book of Trees covers over 800 years of human culture through the lens of the tree figure, from its entrenched roots in religious medieval exegesis to its contemporary, secular digital themes. With roughly 200 images the book offers a visual evolutionary history of this universal metaphor, showing us the incremental adoption of a stylized, abstract construct, as well as a recent emergence of new visual models, many employing advanced computer-generated algorithms. Ultimately, this book makes visualization a prism through which to observe the evolution of civilization.

本书由正文及资料篇两大部分组成。正文中，叙述结构技术精选100例的内容，其中，关于年代则划分为战后一1959年、1960年代、1970年代、1980年代、1990年～1994年、1995年～现在等共六个时期，并按竣工时间的早晚进行了排序，详细介绍建筑物的结构概要，特别是对建筑物的特点和独具特色的结构技术和历史背景都有详细阐述。此外，在选载的每个作品的开头，除介绍反映该作品的具有代表性的词语之外，还一并列出了反映作品特点的关键词。参考文献则刊载在每项作品的最后。
资料篇由五大部分组成：其一，是利用曲线图描述了日本的经济发展与建筑结构演进的关系；其二，用图解的方式反映了个别技术及建筑物的规模；其三，编制了以反映结构技术和规范标准等的变迁为中心的年表；其四，列出了在规划本书的过程中所征集的作品和结构技术的一览表。最后，在书末则是为方便读者而刊登的参考文献和索引。本书不仅可供从事结构设计工作的工程技术人员阅读，也可供建筑设计师、学校教师和研究人员等各方面人士的阅读和利用。
本书不仅可供从事结构设计工作的工程技术人员阅读，也可供建筑设计师、学校教师和研究人员等各方面人士的阅读和利用。

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.

格式塔心理学诞生于1912年。它强调经验和行为的整体性，反对当时流行的构造主义元素学说和行为主义“刺激光器——反应”公式，认为整体不等于部分之和，意识不等于感觉元素的集合，行为不等于反射弧的循环。“格式塔”这个术语起始于视觉领域的研究，但它又不限于视觉领域，甚至不限于整个感觉领域，其应用范围远远超过感觉经验的限度。苛勒认为，形状意义上的“格式塔”已不再是格式塔心理学家们的注意中心；根据这个概念的功能定义，它可以包括学习、回忆、志向、情绪、思维、运动等等过程。广义地说，格式塔心理学家们用格式塔这个术语研究心理地学的整个领域。

书籍设计基础，ISBN：9787040262148，作者：吕敬人 著

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.

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.




From the forward:




For more than 30 years, Project for Public Spaces has been using observations, surveys, interviews and workshops to study and transform public spaces around the world into community places. Every week we give presentations about why some public spaces work and why others don't, using the techniques, ideas, and memorable phrases from William H. "Holly" Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.




Holly Whyte was both our mentor and our friend. Perhaps his most important gift was the ability to show us how to discover for ourselves why some public spaces work and others don't. With the publication of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and its companion film in 1980, the world could see that through the basic tools of observation and interviews, we can learn an immense amount about how to make our cities more livable. In doing so, Holly Whyte laid the groundwork for a major movement to change the way public spaces are built and planned. It is our pleasure to offer this important book back to the world it is helping to transform.

Real Estate Graphics一书整合全球各地的地产设计作品，为国内目前的地产设计带来一股新鲜血液。

图文并茂，叙述简练，物理解释详细，数学表述的难度适中，各讲之间既紧密联系又相互对立，便于随时阅读，具有很好的可读性，是一本了解和探究湍流问题的有价值的参考书。此外，书中对与湍流有关的主要著作进行了注释，分析了每一本书的特点，建议如何安排阅读顺序，提高阅读效果。可供流体力学、物理学、应用数学、大气科学，计算流体力学、工程热物理学、化学工程、航空科学、海洋科学、机械工程以及相关领域的理工科本科生，研究生和广大科技人员，高等院校教师阅读和自学使用。

古人打制、插戴和收藏的金银首饰不仅是财富与艺术的合一，也因为它所具有的展示性而成为生活时尚不可忽略的一个风向标。当日工艺品的流行题材差不多都出现于金银首饰，虽方寸之地，却几乎是时代品样之聚珍。本书意图通过对这些小物件儿的寻根溯源，对组成元素的构造解析，勾画出古代饰品设计者的用心和技艺，与时代风格互动的轨迹，最终体现古代生活礼俗的真实面貌。

《图像与意义：英美现代艺术史论》是沈语冰教授继《20世纪艺术批评》出版十三年后，进一步深化、细化现代艺术史论研究的成果。在独立或合作翻译欧美艺术史经典十二种的基础上，沈语冰教授广泛搜求，剔抉爬梳，将原作的学术渊流、内在理路、方法新变以及后世接受等，简洁明快地呈现出来，堪称十年磨一剑的佳构。
除勾勒英美现代艺术史论基本地形图的“导论”外，本书主体部分由罗杰·弗莱、格林伯格、施坦伯格、夏皮罗、T. J. 克拉克、乔纳森·克拉里等六个专题组成，涵盖了现代艺术史写作中的形式主义、现代主义、现代图像学、精神分析、艺术社会史与视觉考古学等重要理论和方法。

日本民艺之父柳宗悦为和纸四处走访，并作《和纸之美》一书——《和纸之美》、《和纸之训》、《和纸十年》，三篇长文除了《和纸之美》写于1933年，另两篇成文于1942年（来台民艺巡礼前夕）。字里行间在在流露出对和纸传统的惊叹及爱惜之心，娓娓描述和纸“用之美”，也表现他对日本传统文化的尊重致敬及延续创新的渴求。

人类的发明智慧，常常源于自然
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☆ 精彩案例追寻仿生故事，通俗语言揭秘仿生发明
☆ 高清标本照片+手绘原理图，轻松看懂仿生发明的科学基础
☆ 丰富模块涵盖物种信息，贯穿历史文化与奇思妙想
☆ 当自然赋予科技灵感，方知自然之智慧与慷慨
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亿万年来，大自然中种类繁多的植物和动物经过优胜劣汰的进化过程，形成了千奇百怪的形态和功能，这些多样性中包含了大量可以帮助解决技术问题的方法。于是，懂得观察的工程师、建筑师和科学家就向慷慨的大自然学习那些简单而有效的想法，进而发展出了仿生学……
本书以精彩案例讲述植物和动物如何启发了发明家、工程师、建筑师、科学家，也讲述了仿生学如何成为现代科学研究中最有前景的学科之一。在每一个对页里，左页介绍一种植物或动物启发一种或多种仿生发明的故事，另有多个小模块，向我们展示了这种植物或动物的物种信息、奇特策略以及由它们引发的“想象出的发明”；右页则是该植物或动物的标本照片，以及由插画师蒂特瓦内（Titwane）绘制的发明原理图。
日新月异的科技可能已经将书中所称的“我们或许能够发明”和“正在研究”变成了现实，而“目前已得到广泛应用”或许已经过时。但无论如何，这些仿生发明的故事依然充满趣味，我们从中看到的大自然的巧妙与慷慨，也永不过时。更多关于仿生学的妙趣有待读者朋友们在阅读过程中悉心发现。
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2017年豆瓣年度图书科学·新知榜单第5

本书是古埃及艺术的早期探索者Prisse d'Avennes（1807 - 1879）的经典著作，在1868到1878年间发行于巴黎,被认为是关于古埃及艺术的最美丽的现代著作之一。内容是作者绘制的大量彩图。包含了许多已遗失艺术品的唯一记录。是古埃及艺术和建筑的绝佳参考。
This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes's monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts. This classic work is now available for the first time in paperback.

这是探索频道正在播出的一套介绍各种日常生活用品的制作生产过程的系列片。极富娱乐性和知识性。 当我们的日常生活因琳琅满目的各类产品而变得更加丰富多彩的同时，你有没有想过，这些产品是如何制造出来的呢？ Discovery的王牌节目《How it's Made》将带领我们亲眼目睹数千种产品的生产过程。从我们日常生活经常接触到的面食，糖果等；到高端技术如计算机，汽车，飞机等，几乎无所不包。 这套节目是在加拿大录制的。加拿大是一个独立性很强的工业化国家，我们可以透过节目了解到几乎所有行业的产品；加拿大同时是一个自主性很强的工业化国家，不像我国的工业结构那样偏向简单的来料加工，加拿大的工厂更多的是一气呵成，从产品设计研发到包装出厂基本是一厂包办。这使我们能更深入了解产品的生产流程。由于国情的不同，节目还会介绍少量我们闻所未闻的产品。 俗语说得好，百闻不如一见。你不需要拥有制造业的专业知识，通过观看该节目就能了解这些产品的来龙去脉。当中的宏大的生产场面，运转流畅无阻的流水线，精确无误的装配，鬼斧神工的技术，妙不可言的构思，绝对令人叹为观止，获益良多。 这套节目极富娱乐性和知识性，全面的展示制造业的魅力，其对众多行业的各种产品的介绍绝对能开阔您的视野，启发你的灵感。 该套节目生动易懂，适合所有人群观看。小朋友观看这套节目，能激发他们的好奇心，启发他们的创造力，增强他们的发散思维能力。当然，他们需要家长的指导。如果你对制造业有一定研究，那就更加不能错过这套节目了。 外行看热闹，内行看门道。这套节目绝对能让你感受到什么叫 “师夷长技以自强”！ 来自人人影视

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.

1947年，《运动中的影响》出版后，如今已经是第8版。全书有440幅配图，其中11幅是彩色图片。本书是对1947年前后现代设计运动的一个详尽的视觉汇编。包括包豪斯和新包豪斯时期很多设计大师的作品，包括马歇?布劳耶（Marcel Breuer）、格罗皮乌斯（Walter Gropius）、奥斯卡?史莱姆（Oskar Schlemmer）和赫伯特?拜耶（Herbert Bayer）等。出现在本书里的艺术家、建筑家、设计师和摄影家都是20世纪现代运动中里程碑式的人物。如阿尔瓦?阿尔托、赫伯特?拜耶、德里弗斯、柯布西耶、格罗皮乌斯、保罗?兰德、怀特等。格罗皮乌斯评价：“本书是将会是设计教育里的先锋。”

本书研究了从库尔贝、修拉、塞尚一直到毕加索、蒙德里安、夏加尔等现代画家的作品，也讨论了抽象艺术等一般意义上的现代艺术史课题。令人印象深刻的是作家超越方法论樊篱，不拘一格探究现代艺术的不倦兴致和深刻洞见。其中《库尔贝与大众形象》等篇什早已成为艺术社会史研究的典范，而《抽象艺术的性质》又构成抽象艺术理论中的一个里程碑，其中关于印象派的区区几个小节，不仅被后来的艺术史家T.J.克拉克目为印象派研究的杰出桥段，而且直接启发了他写出了洋洋洒洒的艺术社会史名作《现代生活的画像》。

穆夏生于捷克南部的莫拉维亚，是20世纪初叶巴黎流行的“新艺术”的代表画家，穆夏的绘画，在富有华丽装饰美的甜俗优雅的表象里，蕴藏着升华人性的精神旨归。他的新艺术美女海报绘画，在20世纪初期即闻名欧美，穆夏晚期的作品，无论油画、粉彩、素描，更是自由奔放，造型优美精致，引人入胜。因战祸频繁，穆夏成为浪迹各地的波西米亚艺术家。晚年，在爱国心的驱使下他回归祖国，并完成“斯拉夫史诗”系列20幅联作，谨以此献给捷克人民。 本书收录了穆夏美术插画作品若干，供美术爱好者欣赏。