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现代建筑：一部批判的历史

肯尼斯·弗兰普顿

Modern Architecture, A Critical History

Kenneth Frampton

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从1980年它问世起，这个广受好评的现代建筑和其起源的研究已经成为一个经典。在第四版中，肯尼斯·弗兰普顿增加了一个新的主要部分，探讨近年来全球化对建筑的影响，并研究国际知名建筑师在世界各地日益活跃的现象。随着书目的更新和扩大，这一卷比以往更完整且不可或缺。

This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years and examines the phenomenon of international celebrity architects who are increasingly active all over the world. The bibliography has been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever.

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Reason for Recommendation 

这是我在建筑学校的第一堂历史课上使用的主要文本。我们首先学习了现代主义，但弗兰普顿将现代主义的成就与一段更长的、更完整的建筑史联系在一起，而这段历史可以追溯到古典建筑。我们在当下创造的建筑与悠久的历史和建筑作为文化学科的责任紧密相连，这对我来说非常重要——而意识到这一切，从这本书开始。

This was the primary text used during my first history class in architecture school. It is telling that we learned about modernism first, although Frampton connected modernist achievement to a longer and more complete history of architecture extending back through classical architecture. The idea that the buildings we make in our time are tied to this long history and responsibility to architecture as a cultural discipline is very important to me, and started with this book.

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Oppositions Reader

ed: K. Michael Hays

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Oppositions杂志成立于1973年9月，于1984年停刊，是由纽约建筑与城市研究学院出版的一份关于建筑思想和批评的杂志。编辑彼得·艾森曼，肯尼斯·弗兰普顿，和马里奥·甘德尔索纳汇编由业内前沿的建筑从业者和理论家所著的论文。最早的几期杂志现在已经成为藏品，并继续影响每一代新建筑师。Oppositions Reader收集了Oppositions杂志11年历史上最重要的文章。

Oppositions, founded in September 1973 and discontinued in 1984, was a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture published by the now-defunct Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. Editors Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, and Mario Gandelsonas assembled essays by leading architecture practitioners and theorists. The earliest issues are now collectors' items, and the journal continues to influence each new generation of architects. The Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from the 11 year history of Oppositions.

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Reason for Recommendation 

学生时代，我和同学们就建筑问题展开了许多激烈的辩论，Oppositions就是其中的核心。Oppositions处在现代主义与后现代主义的争论的中间。谁会赢还不清楚，但它促使一个人阐明自己对建筑未来的感受和想法。

The journal “Oppositions” was at the center of the many spirited debates about architecture I had with my classmates in school. Oppositions was right in the middle of the arguments for modernism vs. post-modernism. It wasn’t clear which would win, but it pushed one to clarify their own feelings and ideas about the future of architecture.

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Hearts of the City

Herbert Muschamp

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本书由已故的Herbert Muschamp所著，他是《纽约时报》的前建筑评论家，也是建筑评论中最直言不讳和最有影响力的声音之一。本书是他最好的作品的集合。这些来自《新共和》、《艺术论坛》和《纽约时报》的作品揭示了Muschamp的观点是如何超越时代并永恒不朽的。他时常描写正确的建筑是如何鼓舞和振奋人心，他独创性地利用电影、文学和流行文化来写充满激情和个人感情的作品，并在这个过程中改变了建筑批评的景观。这些专栏让建筑成为每个人都能接触到的主题，而此时，由于现代主义者和后现代主义者之间的激烈辩论，建筑已经成为更大范围的公众对话的一部分。作为他所在领域中最勇敢、最积极的声音之一，他在《纽约时报》上发表了许多专栏文章，讨论美国，尤其是纽约缺乏严肃的新建筑的问题，并公开反对开发商的议程。他摒弃了传统建筑写作中枯燥乏味的说教风格，而将弗兰克·盖里(Frank Gehry)的毕尔巴鄂古根海姆博物馆（Guggenheim Bilbao）比作玛丽莲·梦露（Marilyn Monroe）的尸体，或者对曼哈顿下水道井盖的新设计赋予诗意。在这个作品集中，人们可以看到，Muschamp早期拥护过弗兰克·盖里、雷姆·库哈斯、扎哈·哈迪德、托姆·佩恩、弗兰克·伊斯雷尔、让·努维尔和圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉瓦等人的作品，并被彼得·艾森曼等建筑师的理论著作所吸引。这里首次发表了他那篇精彩而尖锐的文章的原稿，内容是关于同性恋文化和爱德华·达雷尔·斯通（Edward Durrell Stone）位于哥伦布环岛2号的博物馆。他未完成的那本书的片段也包括在内，即《A Dozen Years》、《Metroscope》和《Atomic Secrets》。Hearts of the City是一位人文主义思想家令人眼花缭乱的作品，他的作品永远地改变了我们对城市和城市建筑的看法。

From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work. The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless. He often wrote about how the right architecture could be inspiring and uplifting, and he uniquely drew on film, literature, and popular culture to write pieces that were passionate and often personal, changing the landscape of architectural criticism in the process. These columns made architecture a subject accessible to everyone at a moment when, because of the heated debate between modernists and postmodernists, architecture had become part of a larger public dialogue. One of the most courageous and engaged voices in his field, he devoted many columns at the Times to the lack of serious new architecture in this country, and particularly in New York, and spoke out against the agenda of developers. He departed from the usual dry, didactic style of much architectural writing to playfully, for example, compare Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao to the body of Marilyn Monroe or to wax poetic about a new design for Manhattan’s manhole covers. One sees in this collection that Muschamp championed early on the work of Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Thom Payne, Frank Israel, Jean Nouvel, and Santiago Calatrava, among others, and was drawn to the theoretical writings of such architects as Peter Eisenman. Published here for the first time is the uncut version of his brilliant and poignant essay about gay culture and Edward Durrell Stone’s museum at 2 Columbus Circle. Fragments from the book he left unfinished, whose title we took for this collection—“A Dozen Years,” “Metroscope,” and “Atomic Secrets”—are also included. Hearts of the City is dazzling writing from a humanistic thinker whose work changed forever the way we think about our cities—and the buildings in them.

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Reason for Recommendation 

没有其他评论家对建筑及其在文化中的重要性有过如此深刻的论述。重读这本书中的许多文章会提醒你为什么建筑很重要。

No other critic has written so profoundly about architecture and its importance in culture. Rereading the many essays in this book is a reminder of why architecture matters.

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Alvar Aalto – l’Oeuvre Complete

阿尔瓦·阿尔托全集

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阿尔瓦·阿尔托，1898年出生于芬兰的库尔丹，是二十世纪建筑时代的最后一位杰出人物。他的建筑，从城市规划到简单的住宅，都是一个单一的有机体。他从不对正式的建筑理论感兴趣。从第一个飞逝的草图到交付给客户的完整成果，每座建筑达成的路径都是迷人的，并强烈地被建筑师的个性所定义。所有的东西都是活着的、运动的，看起来随意而自然，好像从周围的环境中自然生长出来。对于单个组件和构建阶段的重要性的独特感觉，使得即使是从小型的构建中，也能识别他复杂的个人风格。因此，阿尔托的设计和实验衍生出了家具、灯具、窗帘和许多其他东西，使房子适合居住。他作品的中心主题是观念、形式和生活方式的统一。

Alvar Aalto, born 1898 in Kuortane in Finland, is one of the last of the works personalities of the twentieth century architecture generation. His buildings, from urban planning to simple residential buildings, function as a single organism. He was never interested in formal architectural theories. The path of each building is fascinating, from the first fleeting sketches to the completed work handed over to the client, and strongly defined by the personality of the architect. Everything remains alive and in motion, seems casual and natural as if it grew naturally out of the surroundings. The unique sense for the importance of individual components and construction phases makes it possible to identify a complex of individual style, even in modest construction tasks. Hence, Aalto's designs and experiments result in furniture, lamps, curtains, and many other things that make a house habitable. The central theme of his work is the unity of idea, form, and way of life.

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Le Corbusier - l’Oeuvre Complete

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这套卓越的完整作品集记录了Le Corbusier ——20世纪最具影响力的建筑师之一的全部作品的巨大光谱。该书于1929年至1970年出版，与Le Corbusier本人密切合作，此后多次再版。本书一共八卷，以详尽而独特的方式审视了Le Corbusier的作品。

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.

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James Stirling Buildings and Projects是一本关于英国建筑师James Stirling（1926-1992）多面的职业生涯的专著。这本书以Colin Rowe对Stirling的生活和职业的全面介绍开始。建筑和项目是按时间顺序呈现的，从Stirling 1950年的论文开始，到1983年都灵的Lingotto别墅设计完成，建筑和项目的解释与描述都非常全面，并展示了大量的照片和建筑图纸。Stirling仅将自己称为被“工作”占据的建筑师，拒绝扮演任何例如理论家或批评家的公众角色。他小心地避免纠缠不清的套话，从不谈论基础设施、上层建筑、句法结构、语义学或符号学。他无意发表夸张的言论，没有在反对实证主义建制的自命不凡的宣言中耗尽自己的精力。相反，私底下——如同伏尔泰的《老实人》——他选择了耕耘自己的花园。与大多数建筑师不同的是，他是一个文化保守主义者，关注具体的事物，而不是一个关注抽象的、想要创新的人。

James Stirling Buildings and Projects is a hefty monograph about the versatile career of the British architect James Stirling (1926–1992). The book opens with a comprehensive introduction to Stirling’s life and career by Colin Rowe. The buildings and the projects are presented in a chronological order. The presentation starts with Stirling’s Thesis of 1950 and completes with the design for the Villa Lingotto in Turin in 1983. The buildings and the projects are explained with thorough project descriptions and displayed with an ample selection of photographs and architectural drawings. Stirling has never professed to be anything more than an architect preoccupied with ‘the job’. Stirling has declined to assume any public role as either theorist or critic. He is careful to avoid involuted verbal formulae. He never talks about infrastructure, superstructure, syntactical structure, semantics or semiotics. He has no desire to utter extravagant pronouncements. He does not exhaust himself in pretentious manifestoes against the Positivist establishment. Instead, very privately – and to think about Voltaire’s Candide – he has chosen to cultivate his own garden. Unlike the majority of architects, he is a cultural conservative, concerned with the concrete, rather than a would-be innovator, concerned with the abstract.

— Colin Rowe, James Stirling: A Highly Personal and Very Disjointed Memoir. In: James Stirling Buildings and Projects, p. 27.

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Robert Venturi

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首次出版于1966年，自被翻译成16种语言以来，这本引人注目的书已经成为建筑文学的重要文献。文丘里在建筑中的复杂性和矛盾性，是“非直接建筑的温和宣言”，以最引人注目和最原始的语言，表达了对现代主义纯粹主义的后现代反叛。三百五十幅建筑照片作为历史比较，阐明了作者创作和体验建筑的想法。《建筑的复杂性与矛盾性》获得了AIA第七届年度国际建筑图书奖的经典图书奖。

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.

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本书对普利兹克奖得主，建筑师Alvaro Siza以及他无休止的创造力进行了关乎实质的研究，涉及60年间的30个项目。曾获普利兹克奖的葡萄牙建筑师、教育家Alvaro Siza（生于1933年）在他的一本素描簿的内页上，用自我贬低和否定的口吻描述了他自己和他的作品。他没有将他的学科定义为建筑学，而是将其定义为“尽可能少”。这句忏悔的笔记是本书的起点，回顾性地调查并突显了这位著名建筑师充满创造力的方法和成果下的不安与反抗。内容始于Siza最早的作品之一，位于马托西纽什的The Four Dwellings in Matosinhos（1957），Boa Nova Tea House（1963）和位于葡萄牙Leça da Palmeira的Ocean Swimming Pool（1973），以及最近完成的工作和在建项目，包括位于韩国的Mimesis Museum（2009）, 位于法国的Church in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande（2018）和位于纽约的Residential Tower（在建）——这也是他在美国的第一个项目。

The essential survey on Pritzker Prize–winning architect Alvaro Siza’s restless creativity, in 30 projects over the past 60 years. Once, on the inner flap of one of his sketchbooks, Pritzker Prize–winning Portuguese architect and educator Alvaro Siza (born 1933) described himself and his work with self-deprecating disavowal. Rather than identifying his discipline as architecture, he identified it as “as little as possible.” This confessional note is the point of departure for Alvaro Siza: (In) Discipline, a retrospective survey that highlights the currents of disquiet and insubordination within the renowned architect’s creative method and production, surveying Siza’s design process. The publication starts with Siza’s first works in Matonsinhos―the Four Dwellings in Matosinhos (1957), the Boa Nova Tea House (1963) and the Ocean Swimming Pool in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal (1973)―and includes recently completed work and projects under construction, including the Mimesis Museum in South Korea (2009), the Church in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, France (2018) and the Residential Tower in New York (ongoing), his first project in the US.

Reason for Recommendation

最后5本书都是关于特定的建筑师，他们对我关于建筑的形式和空间的想法都产生了影响。我不可能把其中的任何一本归结为简单的几句话。就我个人而言，这些建筑师的作品一直在引起我的共鸣，即使经过多年的研究，我也能在他们的作品中发现新的东西，这些东西能够与我的作品和思维的发展产生共鸣。

The last 5 books are all related to particular architects who have had an influence on my ideas about both form and space in architecture. It is impossible for me to boil any of them down to a few sentences individually. What is personally true is that the work of each of these architects continues to resonate for me, and even after many years of studying them I find new things in their work that are able to be resonate with how my work and thinking is evolving.  

Design Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc., FAIA, NCARB CERTIFIED

Michael Maltzan于1995年创立了Michael Maltzan建筑事务所。通过对建筑在城市和景观中所扮演的角色的深刻信念，他成功地在不同的尺度和项目中创造了新的文化和社会联系。Michael获得了哈佛大学设计研究生院的建筑硕士学位和优秀生奖。他拥有罗德岛设计学院的美术学和建筑学双学士学位，并在在校期间获得了Henry Adams AIA Gold Medal。他的设计作品已在国际上发表和展出，并定期在世界各地的建筑学校任教和讲座。他是美国建筑师协会会员，American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award获得者。

Michael Maltzan, FAIA, founded Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. in 1995. Through a deep belief in architecture’s role in our cities and landscapes, he has succeeded in creating new cultural and social connections across a range of scales and programs. Michael received a Master of Architecture degree with a Letter of Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and he holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design where he received the Henry Adams AIA Gold Medal. His designs have been published and exhibited internationally and he regularly teaches and lectures at architectural schools around the world. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.