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Visits - Alexandre Chemetoff: Town and Territory

亚历山大·切梅托夫 / Alexander Chemetoff

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法国景观设计师、城市规划师和建筑师亚历山大·切梅托夫(生于1950年)因其在巴黎维莱特公园的“Jardin de Bambou”和他在维勒瑞夫的公园设计而享誉国际。本书对他过去15年的工作进行了近距离的观察，然而，不是以传统的专著的形式呈现。取而代之的是，切梅托夫参观了他的五个主要作品的地点:布兰芒/波尔多、南特岛、安古莱姆、比耶夫河/巴黎、格勒诺布尔、南茜和雷恩。陪同他访问的谈话伙伴都是该领域公认的专家：Dominique Alba、Jean-Louis Cohen、Christophe Girot、Patrick Henry、Alain Leveille、Sebastien Marot和Michel Velly。这样，契梅托夫创作作品的主题就以一种生动的、批判的、迷人的方式出现在讨论中。同样具有启发性的是，一个特定的项目如何在多年的变化中，经受住了时间的考验，以及如果让今天的切梅托夫再做一次，会有什么不同。

The French landscape architect, city planner, and architect Alexandre Chemetoff (b. 1950) achieved international renown for his "Jardin de Bambou" at the Parc de la Villette in Paris and his design of a park in Villejuif. Visits takes a close-up look at his work of the last fifteen years, not, however, in the form of a traditional monograph. Instead, Chemetoff visits the sites of five of his major works: Blanquefort/Bordeaux, Ile de Nantes, Angoulême, Vallée de la Bièvre/Paris, Grenoble, Nancy, and Rennes. He is accompanied on his visits by conversation partners who are recognized experts in the field: Dominique Alba, Jean-Louis Cohen, Christophe Girot, Patrick Henry, Alain Léveillé, Sébastien Marot, and Michel Velly. In this way, the principal themes of Chemetoff’s creative work come up for discussion in a lively, critical, and fascinating manner.It is especially illuminating to discover how well a given project has stood the test of time, how it has changed over the years, and what Chemetoff would do differently today.

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法国景观建筑师亚历山大·契米托夫用来介绍自己的工作方式的书。这本书的前言用照片和文字并置的方式讲述了一种“向世界敞开心扉”的态度，一种超越专业见识的视野和“不着相”的建筑观。我在 2011年春天有幸聆听老先生的讲座，是我在哈佛大学设计学院求学两年中对我启发最大的讲座。后来我反复阅读这本书的前言以至于几乎可以背诵，非常凝练讲究的英语，颇有《老子》的力道。这是我要推荐的第一本书。

The French landscape architect Alexander Chemetoff introduced his own way of working in this book. The preface is juxtaposed with photos and words to tell of an "open mind to the world" attitude, a vision beyond professional knowledge and a "disconnected" view of architecture. In the spring of 2011, I had the honor to listen to the lecture given by this old gentleman, which was the most inspiring lecture for me during my two years of study in the School of Design of Harvard University. Later, I read the preface of the book over and over again so that it was almost recitable, and the English was very concise and exquisite, quite like Lao Tzu. This is the first book I would recommend.

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Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies

拉斐尔·莫内欧 / Rafael Moneo

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国际知名建筑师拉斐尔·莫内欧是一位勇敢的建筑师。他的主要作品包括休斯敦美术馆、韦尔斯利学院的戴维斯美术馆、斯德哥尔摩现代艺术与建筑博物馆和柏林的波茨坦广场酒店。现在莫内欧也被认为是一个大胆的批评家。在这本书中，他着眼于他同时代的8位建筑师——都是具有国际地位的建筑师——并讨论了他们各自的理论立场、技术创新和设计贡献。莫内欧对这八位建筑师的讨论——James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas，以及Jacques Herzog和Pierre De meuron的合作——有一种口语化、吸引人的口吻，就像由一位建筑大师做的关于现代建筑的系列讲座;读者听到的不是一个学者的冷静的理论，而是当他思考与他同时代的作品时深刻的信念。正文附有500多幅插图。

莫内欧依次讨论八个建筑师，首先给出一个简介，强调意图、理论关注点和构建过程。然后，他转向作品，提供了详细的批评性分析，他认为对这个建筑师的作品的了解是至关重要的。他用来阐述观点的许多图片就像演讲中快速闪过的幻灯片，但莫内欧的视角在众多演讲者中是独一无二的。这些档案并不是莫内欧所说的在大学图书馆书架上可以找到的“策略性论文”，而是彼此相当的建筑理解的生动邂逅。

The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he looks at eight of his contemporaries—all architects of international stature—and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects—James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron—has the colloquial, engaging tone of a series of lectures on modern architecture by a master architect; the reader hears not the dispassionate theorizing of an academic, but Moneo's own deeply held convictions as he considers the work of his contemporaries. More than 500 illustrations accompany the text.

Discussing each of the eight architects in turn, Moneo first gives an introductory profile, emphasizing intentions, theoretical concerns, and construction procedures. He then turns to the work, offering detailed critical analyses of the works he considers to be crucial for an informed understanding of this architect's work. The many images he uses to illustrate his points resemble the rapid-fire flash of slides in a lecture, but Moneo's perspective is unique among lecturers. These profiles are not what Moneo calls the "tacit treatises" that can be found on the shelves of a university library, but lively encounters of architectural equals.

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Reason for Recommendation 

西班牙著名建筑师、建筑理论家和教育家拉斐尔·莫内欧的一部建筑批评经典，几年前已有中译本。这本书是老先生 90 年代在哈佛大学设计学院教授建筑评论课时的讲稿编辑而成。这本书以从现代主义后期直到当时最有代表性的八位建筑师开刀，从历史、社会、文化和人生的立体全局视角来解读这八位建筑师的思想和作品。这种评论方式打破了从理论到理论的狭隘学术窠臼，还原每一位建筑师成长和实践的独特历史语境。全球视野的背后是老先生所代表的欧洲人文主义建筑学的斯文传统。

A classic of architectural criticism by Raphael Moneo, famous Spanish architect, architectural theorist and educator, has been translated into Chinese several years ago. The book is a compilation of his lecture notes from the 1990s, when he taught architectural review at the School of Design of Harvard University. This book takes the most representative eight architects, from the spectrum of history, society, culture and life, to interpret the eight architects' ideas and works. This way of comment breaks the narrow academic rut from theory to theory and restores the unique historical context of every architect's growth and practice. Behind the global vision is the gentle tradition of European humanist architecture represented by the old gentleman.

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Writings on Architecture (Writings by Architects)

阿尔瓦罗·西扎 / Alvaro Siza 

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在葡萄牙建筑师阿尔瓦罗·西扎的整个职业生涯中，他坦率地写下了自己对渗透在当代建筑实践中的复杂性和艺术疑虑的个人想法。这里第一次被展示的，是西扎最重要的文本的一个精选合集，其中的许多以前都没有出版过。他的作品按主题组织，并附有素描以作说明，清晰地唤起了他的美学价值和他建筑的简单和纯粹。

Throughout his career, Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza has candidly written down his private thoughts on the complexities and artistic doubts which permeate contemporary architectural practice. Here, presented for the first time, is a comprehensive selection of Siza's most significant texts, many of them previously unpublished. Organized thematically and accompanied by explanatory sketches, his writings lucidly evoke his aesthetic values and the simplicity and purity of his architecture. 

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葡萄牙著名建筑师阿尔瓦罗·西扎的建筑随笔。这些文字更像是西扎的自言自语。西扎喜欢诗，他的遣词造句有点像他的房子，往往出人意料，甚至偶尔诘屈聱牙。有时候你觉得读懂了，这很可能只是你自己的理解。即使你当面问他，西扎也很可能不置可否。他的文字有一种意义的开放感，特别像他画的草图，意图若隐若现。他用这样的文字来摸索和表达那些文字之外的意思。西扎大概算是欧洲人文主义建筑学的硕果仅存的人物，最后一位可以被称为“文艺复兴人“的建筑师。对中国建筑学读者，读这本书要明白我们生长其中的文化真的很不一样，真正的欧洲建筑学水有多深。

Architectural essay by famous Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza. The words are more like Siza's soliloquies. Siza loved poetry, and the words he used were reminiscent of his house, often unexpected and occasionally challenging. Sometimes when you think you understand something, it's probably just your own understanding. Even if you ask him face to face, Siza will probably be noncommittal. His words have an open sense of meaning, especially like his sketches, where the intention is looming. He used these words to explore and express meaning beyond the words. Siza was probably the last surviving figure in European humanist architecture, the last architect who could be called the Renaissance man. For Chinese architecture readers, reading this book should understand that the culture we grew up in is really different.

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Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

劳伦斯·韦施勒 / Lawrence Weschler

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当这本书在1982年首次出版时，它向读者介绍了罗伯特·欧文，这位“有一天被自己的好奇心迷住了，并决定生活下去”的洛杉矶艺术家。在这版增加了6章和24页的彩色画板的书中，记录了劳伦斯·韦施勒（Lawrence Weschler）和光与空间大师欧文之间长达30年的对话。欧文的许多场域特定项目,尤其是盖蒂博物馆的中央花园（与建筑师理查德·迈耶史诗级的battle）和将一个废弃的哈德逊谷工厂变成Dia在Beacon的新校园的设计——更是加强了众人对于”这是关于艺术家最好的一本书“的认知。

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus - enhancing what many had already considered the best book ever on an artist.

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这是艺术学者劳伦斯·韦施勒用三十年时间跟踪采访洛杉矶著名艺术家罗伯特·欧文而写成的传记。罗伯特·欧文的工作一般被归类为现象学的艺术。他的作品虽然是来自于他早年勤奋的探索，但到了成熟期却像是从艺术史里跳出来，非常简单，却有着直指人心的力量，揭示着至深的自由（或者说“自在”）之道。正如书名所说“观看是要忘记被观看对象的名字”。这也是禅宗的去概念、去名相。基于概念的创造从本质上讲都是炒冷饭。罗伯特·欧文在书里说，“文艺复兴人告诉世界他觉得什么事情是有趣的，然后就努力的去实现和控制。而我却等待世界告诉我，我才好回应。直觉取代了逻辑。我就是参与到境遇中，几个星期的观察和微如发丝的调整之后，恰当的解决方案会自发地宣布它的到来。”传记里欧文的一生大概就是从“文艺复兴人”到“境遇主义者”的蜕变之旅。

This is a biography by the art scholar Lawrence Weschler, who has been following the Los Angeles artist Robert Irwin for 30 years. Irwin's work is generally classified as phenomenological art. Although his works are derived from his diligent exploration in his early years, at the mature stage, they seem to jump out of the history of art. They are very simple, but they have the power to direct people's hearts, revealing the ultimate way of freedom (or "freedom"). As the title says, "To watch is to forget the name of the object being watched." This is also the concept of Zen to go, to go. Concept-oriented creation is, in essence, a rehash. Irwin says in the book, "The Renaissance man told the world what he thought was interesting, and then tried to make it happen and control it. And I'm waiting for the world to tell me so I can respond. Intuition takes the place of logic. I'm just involved in the situation, and after a few weeks of observation and hairline adjustments, the appropriate solution will automatically announce its arrival." In the biography, Irwin's life is probably a journey of transformation from "Renaissance man" to "situationist".

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape

Charles E. Beveridge (Author), David Larkin  Editor

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弗雷德里克·劳·奥姆斯特德（Frederick Law Olmsted）是一位充满激情、远见卓识和魄力的人，他定义并命名了景观建筑这一职业，并设计了上个世纪美国最受喜爱的公园和景观——纽约中央公园、布鲁克林展望公园、美国国会大厦、比尔特莫尔庄园等等。从19世纪中期开始，奥姆斯特德在长达40年的职业生涯中创立了美国第一个公园系统、城市绿道，并规划了郊区的居民社区。他是创建和保护诸如约塞米蒂、黄石公园和尼格拉瀑布等自然公园运动的关键人物。他还参与了许多学术园区的设计，包括加州帕洛阿尔托的斯坦福大学(Stanford University)。如今，在美国和欧洲，人们对奥姆斯特德的作品和遗产重新产生了兴趣。这本适时的书通过保罗·罗切洛的彩色照片展示了奥姆斯特德作品的广博之处，并阐明了奥姆斯特德作为一个不屈不挠的管理者和社会改革者的角色。奥姆斯特德的职业生涯反映了他对促进社区发展以及利用自然景观的恢复作用来抵消现代城市的衰弱力量的深切关注。

A man of passionate vision and drive, Frederick Law Olmsted defined and named the profession of landscape architecture and designed America's most beloved parks and landscapes of the past century--New York's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Biltmore Estate, and many others. During a remarkable forty-year career that began in the mid-1800s, Olmsted created the first park systems, urban greenways, and planned surburban residential communities in this country. He was a pivotal figure in the movement to create and preserve natural parks such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Niagra Falls. He also contrbuted to the design of many academic campuses, including Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Today there is a resurgence of interest in Olmsted's work and legacy in both the United States and Europe. This timely volume presents the breadth of Olmsted's work in beautiful color photographs by Paul Rocheleau and illuminates Olmsted's role as an indefatigable administrator and social reformer. Olmstead's career reflected a deep concern for fostering community and using the restorative effects of natural scenery to counteract the debiliting forces of the modern city.

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这应该不是介绍奥姆斯特德和他辉煌业绩最好的一本书，但基本可以用它入门。奥姆斯特德是可以说是景观建筑学作为一个学科的奠基人。Landscape architect 这个词正是他确立下来的。我一直觉得建筑师不可以不懂景观，因为建筑真的不是一个孤立的“阳光下形式的表演”，建筑师创造的是我们生活其中的环境，房子只是这个环境中非常有限的一部分。书的副标题说奥姆斯特德设计了美国的景观，此言不虚。也许是因为他所处的时代正是美国文化蓬勃生发之际，奥姆斯特德的丰功伟绩令后人再难望其项背。了解他的思想和工作让我们看到并理解美国景观建筑学深厚的背景和家底。回过头来就可以明白当下景观建筑学和景观设计行业表面繁荣背后的虚妄。这种虚妄放在美国没有关系，因为美国自然和城市景观的格局跟体系已经被奥姆斯特德和他之后几代人完成，学科即使有点退化也伤不到美国景观已经稳固的大局。但我国的自然和城市景观正在经济力量的推动下极速变迁，景观建筑学不能仅仅是舶来一点隔靴搔痒的时鲜文章，我们的时代呼唤一个中国版的奥姆斯特德。

This isn't the best book to introduce Olmsted and his brilliant career, but it's a good primer. Olmsted can be said to be the founder of landscape architecture as a discipline. He coined the term Landscape architect. I have always felt that architects should not be ignorant of landscape, because architecture is really not an isolated "representation of form under the sun". What architects create is the environment in which we live, and the house is only a very limited part of this environment. The book's subtitle says Olmsted designed America's landscape, and it's true. Perhaps because he came of age at a time when American culture was booming, Olmsted's legacy is unmatched. Understanding his thoughts and work allows us to see and understand the profound background and background of American landscape architecture. Looking back, we can understand the illusion behind the apparent prosperity of landscape architecture and landscape design industry. This kind of nonsense is irrelevant in the United States, because the patterns and systems of the natural and urban landscape of the United States have been completed by Olmsted and his successors, and even a slight degeneration of the discipline does not hurt the larger picture that the American landscape has stabilized. However, the natural and urban landscape in our country is undergoing rapid changes under the impetus of economic forces. Landscape architecture cannot be merely a foreign article of  the times. Our time calls for a Chinese version of Olmsted.

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Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works

David Robson

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斯里兰卡建筑师杰弗里·巴瓦和他创造的建筑已经成为该地区的传奇，并在世界各地具有影响力。很少有建筑师能像他那样将当地建筑传统与现代形式和情感和谐融合。巴瓦的早期作品巧妙地结合了本土风格，并以现代建筑语汇回应了气候和地点。不久，他的才能在更大的范围内得到应用，包括斯里兰卡议会、许多精心选址和设计的酒店、学校、办公室和其他公共建筑。他的全部作品以他自己的两处住宅为象征——位于科伦坡的一处住宅和位于鲁鲁贡加的一处住宅综合体——它们的演变雄辩地反映了巴瓦的职业生涯和个性。这雄心勃勃的出版物是对于巴瓦和他的工作的全面的记录和欣赏，包括他最重要的作品的丰富呈现，甚至一些很少公开发表的项目。同时书中还有详尽的参考部分，包括一个完整的年表。

Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the buildings he created have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Few architects achieved his harmonious fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility. Bawa's early works were houses that artfully married vernacular styles and responses to climate and site with a modern architectural vocabulary. Soon his talents were applied on a larger scale, to the Sri Lanka parliament, a number of carefully situated and designed hotels, schools, offices and other public buildings. The summation of his oeuvre is symbolized by his own two residences – a house in Colombo and a residential complex in Lunuganga – whose evolution eloquently reflect Bawa’s career and personality. This ambitious publication is a comprehensive documentation and appreciation of Geoffrey Bawa and his work and includes a rich portfolio of his most important works, including some rarely published projects. An exhaustive reference section includes a complete chronology.

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这是斯里兰卡建筑师杰弗里·巴瓦作品全集，已有中译本。巴瓦的作品魅力很难用流行的建筑摄影方式来呈现，所以这本书里的照片并不诱人。但作者以时间顺序结构全书，把建筑师的生命历程和他的作品联系在一起，非常生动地刻画了巴瓦和他生活的世界。巴瓦的建筑不是从建筑学里出来的，他的建筑来自于生活世界，也能回到并融入生活世界之中。如果能结合这本书再去斯里兰卡寻访巴瓦的作品，会是非常难得的经验和启发。

It is a complete collection of works by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and has been translated into Chinese. The charm of Bawa's work is hard to capture in the fashion of architectural photography, so the photographs in this book are not alluring. But the author structures the book chronologically, linking the life of the architect to his work, and drawing a very vivid picture of Bawa and the world he lived in. Bawa's architecture does not come out of architecture. His architecture comes from the world of life and can also come back and blend into the world of life. If I can combine this book and go to Sri Lanka to find Bawa's works, it will be a very rare experience and inspiration.

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幸福的建筑 / The Architecture of Happiness

阿兰·德波顿 / Alain de Botton

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是什么让一所房子真正美丽？为什么很多新房子都这么丑？为什么我们会为沙发和图片而争吵得如此激烈？品味的差异能否令人满意地解决？为了回答这些以及更多的问题，德波顿研究了世界各地的建筑，从中世纪的木屋到现代的摩天大楼；他研究了沙发、教堂、茶具和办公大楼，并提出了许多常常令人惊讶的哲学见解。《幸福的建筑》将带你踏上一段迷人的旅程，让你了解建筑和室内设计的历史和心理学，改变你对自己家的看法。

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? To answer these questions and many more, de Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights. The Architecture of Happiness will take you on a beguiling tour through the history and psychology of architecture and interior design, and will change the way you look at your home.

推荐理由 

Reason for Recommendation 

英伦才子阿兰·德波顿的建筑遐思，也有中译本《幸福的建筑》。我认为建筑师要学会跟建筑师之外的世界对话，要有泛文化的怀抱和视野，否则建筑学将在建筑师群体的自我陶醉中走向狭隘和衰落。这本书是我读到的第一本用自然语言来讨论建筑学的内涵和外延的著述，其写作方式和立场后来也影响了我自己的建筑学写作方式。

The Architectural reverie of Alain de Botton, a brilliant British scholar, is also translated into Chinese. In my opinion, architects should learn to talk with the world outside architects and have a pan-cultural embrace and vision. Otherwise, architecture will go into narrowness and decline in the narcissism of architects. It was the first book I read that discussed the connotation and extension of architecture in approachable language, and its writing style and stance later influenced my own architectural writing style.

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花园里的花园 / Garden in a Garden

金秋野 / Jin Qiuye 

简介 

Description

本书是作者多年的建筑学论文集，以“花园里的花园”这种自然观念为全书主旨，围绕“人工与自然的关系”编排各篇目。包括对巴瓦、赖特的建筑及思想评论，作者自宅的设计及随笔，关于建筑评论的文体问题、建筑教育、明代小说插画空间语言等杂文，与城市的变化相关的设计、龙美术馆的建筑评论，以及两篇对谈。

This book is a collection of the author's architectural essays for many years. The main theme of the book is the concept of "the garden in the garden", and the articles are organized around the "relationship between man and nature". Including comments on the architecture and thoughts of Bawa and Wright, the design and essays of the author’s own house, essays on the stylistic issues of architectural criticism, architectural education, the space language of Ming Dynasty novels and illustrations, the design related to changes in the city, and the design of Long Museum Architecture review, and two dialogues.

推荐理由

Reason for Recommendation 

建筑学者金秋野先生的文集。金秋野先生是国内为数不多的擅长用自然语言阐释中西方建筑文化的作家，此书是他最近出版的第二本文集。对于现代主义时代的建筑贤圣，金秋野有他独到而通透的理解，他的写作能够深入到建筑师的人格和他所处的社会文化脉络中去，也都是有感而发。“修辞立其诚”，金秋野先生坚持不懈用写作来打磨思想，令人钦佩。他写杰弗里·巴瓦的文章是我读到的对巴瓦最富洞见的评论。

A collection of essays by architectural scholar Jin Qiuye. Mr. Jin is one of the few writers in the country who is adept at explaining Chinese and Western architectural culture in approachable language, and this is his second anthology recently published. As for the architectural sage in the era of modernism, Jin has his unique and transparent understanding, and his writing can penetrate into the personality of architects and the social and cultural context in which he is located, which is also his inspiration. "Rhetoric and sincerity", Jin's persistent use of writing to polish ideas is admirable. His article on Geoffrey Bawa was one of the most insightful reviews of Bawa I've ever read.