Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.

Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem materiellen Erbe der jesuitischen Mission außerhalb Europas unter Einbezug dreier Pekinger Schlüsselbauwerke. Gestützt auf eine kritische Revision der Baugeschichte, gilt das Interesse zunächst der Transkulturalität und Wirkung der jesuitischen Bautopographie im Kontext flaneuristischer Stadterkundungen. Es gilt insbesondere, die Auswahl der identitätsstiftenden Bautypologien hinsichtlich ihres auf Machtrepräsentation ausgerichteten Mechanismus zu hinterfragen.
Zentral sind des Weiteren Fragen zum Einfluss der jesuitischen Räume auf die kaiserlichen, transkulturellen Machträume sowie die Positionierung der jesuitischen Gartenräume im Zuge transkultureller Wissenschaftsnetzwerkbildung im 17./18. Jahrhundert. Gestützt auf eine Vielzahl von Bildzeugnissen, liefert die Studie einen gründlichen Einblick in die globale Entfaltung der Kunst und Architektur eines historisch bedeutenden Klerikerordens und trägt zur aktuellen Debatte um die globale Kunstgeschichte maßgeblich bei.

A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world
With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque—the first English-language book on the topic—Ünver Rüstem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire’s capital.
Rüstem reclaims the label “Ottoman Baroque” as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul’s eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources, he demonstrates that this architecture was in its own day lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated, the style’s cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans’ entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe. Such aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavor to reaffirm the empire’s power at a time of intensified East-West contact, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom.
Copiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents, Ottoman Baroque breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history.

This book is a unique way of looking at Mumbai's terrain and the history of its making. It presents an alternative visualization of Mumbai's landscape with extraordinary artistic and design expertise.

这是一本历史理论著作，也是迄今为止最重要、使用范围最广的研究现代建筑种语言和建筑关系的专著。本书分两部分，第一部分以主题和历史叙述相结合的方式，在理论层面上梳理了建筑中语言的意义、作用和演变；第二部分重点论述了形成现代主义建筑话语的一些重要语汇，追溯了它们的起源以及历史演变过程。

Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book Published in American City & Regional Planning History 1995-1997From the 1920s to the 1950s, Los Angeles did for the shopping center what New York and Chicago had done for the skyscraper. In a single generation, the American retail center shifted from the downtown core to the regional shopping center. This rise of the regional shopping center is one of the most significant changes to the American city in the twentieth century, and no other American city has done as much as Los Angeles to spur that change.Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard Longstreth takes an historical perspective, relating retail development to broader architectural, urban, and cultural issues. His story is far from linear; the topics he covers include the emergence of Hollywood as a downtown in miniature, experiments with the shopping center as an amenity of planned residential developments, the branch department store as a landmark of decentralization, the evolution of off-street parking facilities, and the obscure origins of the pedestrian mall as a spine for retail complexes.Longstreth takes seriously the task of looking at retail buildings--one of the most neglected yet common building types--and the economics of real estate in the American city. He shows that Los Angeles in the period covered was a harbinger of American metropolitan trends during the second half of this century. Over 250 illustrations, culled from a wide variety of sources, constitute one of the best collections of old LA photographs published anywhere.

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

窗，是建築的眼睛。
窗的風景，是人的風景。
窗的故事，也是人的故事。
28個國家，76座城市，135扇窗
光、風、人，文化、城市、生命的面貌
◆窗的實景，數百張無限驚奇的窗景實照全彩精印
◆窗的插圖，實寸測量精細繪製，獨具價值的窗設計和窗建築導覽
◆窗的地圖，依氣候別、宗教別、地理位置呈現窗的風景與人的風景
◆窗的思考，從風土民情、社會、宗教規範、建築用途到文化和生命的風貌
◆窗的大覽，柯比意等建築大師窗設計精采收錄，專文解析窗的人文觀察
◎我們的生活裡，都少不了一扇「窗」
千姿百態的窗，吸引光、風、熱等自然能量，也召喚人們，賦予休憩、潤澤和寧靜，在文化、城市、社會的進展過程中展現萬種風情。「窗」象徵著生活其中的人們的「生」。
師承東京工業大學民用建築傳統的日本著名建築師塚本由晴，特別關注建築與人之間的關係，善於在有限條件下創造功能多變的實用建築，並藉由居於其間的使用者來為建築增添力量。
本書由東京工業大學塚本由晴研究室編著，研究室成員透過實際的測量和田野調查及訪談，記錄世界各地的窗，並觀察每扇窗擁有的多樣化風景，完成獨具意義的環遊世界窗之旅。他們造訪28個國家，足跡遍及76座城市，查訪並重新調查135扇窗，整理歸納充滿生命感和文化力道的窗景，思考窗與光、風、人的關聯，導引出開窗與關窗、窗內與窗外的新思維。
◎實踐的窗與詩意的窗
在20世紀大量生產的時代，為了提高原料的製成率，設計的條件被規格化。而在商品化的過程中，其實也隱含了許多人類感受世界時不可或缺的要素。近代工業化後，窗成為最先進的商品之一，但窗的周邊濃縮了最多樣化的行為要素。窗原本存在於牆壁等特定的圍護結構中，屬於圍護結構裡的部分開放空間，有著連絡內與外的露出功能。然而，在生產的理論中，窗被當成一個零件，使窗再度被限制於自身的框架裡。原本應該打破圍護結構的窗，被塞入制式的固定概念。
從行為的角度來觀察窗，透過窗照射進來的光和風、光產生的熱、受到熱的吸引靠近窗旁並眺望窗外的人、街上來往的人們、庭院延伸的綠意風景，這些與窗不可分割的事物，聚集了許多目光，窗本身也存在於這些延伸出去的眾多要素的關係當中。
窗的周圍有自然的旨意，如光、風、水、熱等，在這些日照下或通風良好的地方，吸引人接近並主動調整窗的開闔，這是人的風景。此外，沿著走道排列的多扇窗，反覆出現在建物群的牆面，呈現出與單一扇窗不同的風景，複雜的韻律和圖樣，構成創造城市空間的獨特窗景。
◎窗的文．圖
本書分為三部：「光與風」、「人同在」、「交響詩」，每扇窗以一跨頁介紹，精采呈現窗景照片、建物用途/所在地/氣候別等資料、窗景插畫，以及精闢的解說文字。窗景插畫實地測量繪製，標示詳細尺寸，極具參考價值。
書中收錄的窗景，範疇涵蓋市井生活的窗到大師之作的窗，地域跨五大洲，宗教含括基督教、伊斯蘭教到自然崇拜，氣候別從熱帶到凍土。這遠不止是一本旅行記述，也非窗的設計或建築考察，完成這趟窗之旅時，成果是這部訴說窗的故事和人的故事的精采之作。

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, typified by his round black eyeglasses, which are still today a signature look for architects around the world, helped cast him as an heroic figure out of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.
Drawing on an array of archival material, including sketches, photographs, and correspondences, Le Corbusier Le Grand depicts in roughly chronological order not only the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of an artist who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

《明日之城市》一书，是世界著名建筑与城市规划大师勒·柯布西耶的一部经典著作。在该书中，柯布通过对20世纪初的城市发展规律和城市社会问题的关注、思考和研究，提出关于未来城市发展模式的设想，即“现代城市”理想，希望通过对现存城市尤其是大城市本身的内部改造，使其能够适应未来发展的需要。柯布主张关于城市改造的4个原则是：减少市中心的拥堵、提高市中心的密度、增加交通运输的方式、增加城市的植被绿化；基于这些最基本的原则，柯布以巴黎市中心为实例进行了300万人的“现代城市”的规划设计。

Peter Zumthor is possibly the most innovative European architect working today. His projects inspire enthusiasm with their exactitude, their poetry, and their radically independent aesthetics and vocabulary of form.
This publication, exquisitely designed to the architect's exacting standards, is the first complete survey of Zumthor's oeuvre. As exceptional as the architect's work itself, the book investigates eight realized buildings in detail, including the Home for the Elderly in Chur, the Gugalun House in Safiental, the Art Museum in Bregenz, Austria, and his best-known work, the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland. Each of these projects is extensively illustrated with duotone photographs by British architectural photographer Helene Binet and is accompanied by plans as well as commentary written by Zumthor himself. This title also includes a list of projects, a biography of the architect, and an introduction by Zumthor.

《庇护所》含金量极高，文字简明深刻，图片精美贴切，信息量之大、覆盖面之全、趣味性之佳让人叹为观止。书中将人类历史上出现过的洞穴、草屋、帐篷、木屋、仓房、农庄等各种建筑形式都囊括其中，以图文并茂的形式将手工建造房屋的过程完美呈现。面对城市中的机械搭建的钢筋水泥，书中传授的手工建造房屋技艺和理念能够让人重拾手工、探险、劳作和自由的乐趣。作为一部庇护所建造全书以及手工绿色建房的切实指南，《庇护所》既是建筑专业人士的必备参考，同时也适合热爱手工、推崇绿色建筑以及独立建房的读者阅读。

中国的都市化进程已成眼前之事实。按照现有的速度来看，不远的未来将在沿海与内地出现20多个大都市圈。高度集约的方式必然会在极短的时间内引发大量难以预计的问题。如果回溯城市史的话，我们会感觉一些问题非常熟悉，当然也有很多问题是全新的。不管怎样，关于城市的大规模研究已经箭在弦上。本书的第二部分“城市史：东方与西方”对（已出现的和未出现的）问题提出了可供参考的意见。其中回应写作了《美国大城市的死与生》的简·雅各布斯的文章“城市设计的死与生”，尤为重要。无论在哪个层面，美国经验必然值得参考和借鉴。之于前者，它们都是某种意义上的“新大陆”，从人类居住的物质环境的变化之剧烈与急促来看，可能只有当年的美国和我们的现状相似，而且两者都没有欧洲文化的历史负担；之于后者，本书第一部分“威尼斯学派与城市”所介绍的威尼斯学派在方法上的创见（“大都市”、“农耕理想的城市与弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特：广亩的起源与发展”、“从公园到区域：进步意识形态和美国城市的变革”三篇长文作者功力尤为深厚）无疑会令我们受惠多多。

本书是最权威的计算机体系结构著作，是久负盛名的经典作品。书中系统地介绍了计算机系统的设计基础、指令集系统结构、流水线和指令集并行技术、层次化存储系统与存储设备、互连网络以及多处理器系统等重要内容。在这个最新版中，作者增加了当前炙手可热的云计算和手机客户端技术等相关内容，探讨了在手机、平板电脑、笔记本电脑和其他移动计算设备上云计算的软硬件实现方式。

《日本近代建筑》是研究日本近代建筑发展史的经典之作，代表了20世纪60-70年代日本学者关于日本近代建筑发展史的研究成果，并从日本社会、政治、经济等角度诠释这一阶段的建筑历史，是对建筑有兴趣的人必备的一本书。