设计师为A8推荐的8本书VOL15——王克明
8 Books Recommended for A8 VOL 15: Wang Keming
王克明
A8设计中心驻留设计师
兴隆湖“双心联动”方案征集入围设计师
关于推荐人：王克明
2010年毕业于荷兰贝尔拉格建筑学院Berlage Institute，获建筑学硕士学位。曾就职于MVRDV，COOP HIMMELBLAU， BAU等建筑事物所，后于2016年与宋小超在上海共同创立MONOARCHI度向建筑。在小型尺度的建筑尺度上尝试空间、材料、环境与人之间的趣味性对话。事务所曾入选有方2018年最具活力的上海年轻建筑事务年终报告。参与2018年ASSBOOK举办的城事设计节美好新华的弄堂改造项目，以及2019年对愚园路的路易艾黎旧宅弄堂进行了空间与景观的优化。在建筑实践的同时也参与建筑设计的教育，为上海同济大学设计与创意学院及宁波诺丁汉大学建筑学院的客座讲师。
About Recommender：Wang Keming
In 2010, he graduated from the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands with a master's degree in architecture. Worked at MVRDV, COOP HIMMELBLAU, BAU and other architectural firms, and later co-founded MONOARCHI in Shanghai with Song Xiaochao in 2016. It tries interesting dialogues between space, materials, environment and people on a small-scale architectural scale. The firm was selected as one of the most dynamic Shanghai young architectural affairs annual report of Youfang in 2018. MONOARCHI participated in the alley renovation project of the beautiful Xinhua at the Urban Affairs Design Festival held by ASSBOOK in 2018. In 2019, MONOARCHI participated in the space and landscape optimization of the old house of Louis Alley on Yuyuan Road. In addition to architectural practice, Wang Keming also participated in the education of architectural design. He is the visiting lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai and Ningbo Nottingham University.
《沉默的大多数》，王小波
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作者所虚构的艺术之美，以及他通过对现实世界的批评所传播的自由主义理念，已经在这个世界的文化和思想宝库中占据了一席之地。而到今天，这些话语、这些思想仍是我们的社会所需要的。
我们从王小波的长盛不衰只能得出这样的结论：在中国，自由主义理念的传播还任重而道远。王小波的作品一直盛行不衰，王小波的小说在世界文学之林中创造出属于他的美，这美就像一束强光，刺穿了时间的阻隔，启迪了一代又一代刚刚开始识字读书的青年的心灵。
The beauty of art fictionalized by the author, and the liberal ideas he spread through criticism of the real world, have occupied a place in the treasure house of culture and thought in this world. Today, these words and thoughts are still what our society needs.
We can only draw the conclusion from Wang Xiaobo's prosperity: In China, the spread of liberalism still has a long way to go. Wang Xiaobo’s works have always been popular. Wang Xiaobo’s novels have created his own beauty in the forest of world literature. This beauty is like a beam of light, piercing the barrier of time, and enlightening the mind of the generations of people who have just begun to read.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
现在这个时代已经不太适合鲁迅，却超适合回味王小波的文章。建筑师不止是技术化的匠人，在碎片化信息的海啸中更应该是能够独立思考的知识分子。
Now this era is not suitable for Lu Xun, but it is super suitable for reviewing Wang Xiaobo's articles. Architects are not only technical craftsmen, but also intellectuals who can think independently in the tsunami of fragmented information.
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《文艺复兴是什么》，盐野七生
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盐野七生，研究罗马历史的日本作家。整本书虽然都是以一种对话的轻松形式展开的，但是如果读者愿意花点心思提炼出作者的思路和架构，一定可以感受到她的诚意。
全书分为四部：第一、二、四部分别讲述佛罗伦萨、罗马、威尼斯的文艺复兴，按照意大利的文艺复兴中心转移的过程来叙述，从佛罗伦萨兴起，洛伦佐·美第奇的去世之后转移到罗马，反宗教改革运动开始之后又转移到威尼斯。第三部讲意大利与大航海的关系，这部分的立论有趣有新意。
Nanami Shiono, a Japanese writer who studies Roman history. Although the whole book is developed in a relaxed form of dialogue, if the reader is willing to spend a little thought to refine the author's ideas and structure, she will definitely feel her sincerity.
The book is divided into four parts: the first, second, and fourth parts are about the Renaissance in Florence, Rome, and Venice respectively. They are narrated according to the process of the transfer of the Italian Renaissance center. The rise of Florence and the transfer after the death of Lorenzo Medici Rome, after the start of the Anti-Reformation movement, it moved to Venice. The third part talks about the relationship between Italy and great navigation. The arguments in this part are interesting and innovative.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
文艺复兴贯穿历史400年，期间艺术的大爆发只是社会变革的一个分支，文艺复兴是现代文明的起点，盐野七生在历史中挖掘出复兴的起点是怀疑中世纪造就的世界和规则，有意思的是好像现在我们也走在复兴的路上。
The Renaissance runs through 400 years of history. The explosion of art during this period was only a branch of social change. The Renaissance was the starting point of modern civilization. Shiono Qiyo digs out the starting point of revival in history because he doubts the world and rules created by the Middle Ages. What is interesting is that It seems that now we are also on the road to revival.
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《现代艺术150年：一个未完成的故事》，威尔·贡培兹
What are You Looking at：150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye ， Will Gompertz
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威尔·贡培兹——爱好单口相声，在美术馆和BBC工作的资深媒体人，深谙读者的阅读心理。他深知如何以丰富饱满的内容、幽默的言语、清晰的叙事逻辑及艺术家八卦来牢牢抓住读者的好奇心和求知欲，增强书籍本身的可读性。
此书故事性强于学理性，线性史的描写方式帮助读者讲很多知识点串联了起来，也算是温固而知新，是用来入门或是梳理脉络的不错的选择。
Will Gompez-a senior media person who loves stand-up comedy and works in art galleries and BBC, he is well versed in readers' reading psychology. He knows how to use rich and full content, humorous language, clear narrative logic and artist gossip to firmly grasp the reader's curiosity and thirst for knowledge and enhance the readability of the book itself.
The story of this book is stronger than academic rationality. The description method of linear history helps readers to connect many knowledge points. It can be regarded as gentle, solid, and new. It is a good choice for getting started or sorting out the context.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
建筑与艺术有千丝万缕的联系，因为功能、技术等原因又总是远远落后于艺术。建筑史中除去上世纪六七十年代的活跃团体们大多留下的是严肃与庄重，读起来总是不如现代艺术史的八卦过瘾。
Architecture and art are inextricably linked, because of function, technology and other reasons, they always lag far behind art. Excluding the active groups in the 1960s and 1970s in the history of architecture, most of them are left with seriousness and dignity, which is always not as enjoyable as the gossip of modern art history.
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《失控》，凯文·凯利
Out of Control， Kevin Kelly
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这是一部思考人类社会（或更一般意义上的复杂系统）进化的“大部头”著作，对于那些不惧于“头脑体操”的读者来说，必然会开卷有益。当媒体聚焦于某种具体应用、聚焦于路演和IPO、聚焦于科技公司市值的时候，凯文·凯利却一如既往地将目光投向了广袤的未来——早在上世纪90年代初的时候就预见了Web2.0时代的到来，预见了去中心化的互联网发展趋势。
This is a "big tome" book about the evolution of human society (or more complex systems in a more general sense). For readers who are not afraid of "mind gymnastics", it is bound to be helpful. When the media focused on a specific application, on roadshows and IPOs, and on the market value of technology companies, Kevin Kelly, as always, set his sights on a vast future-as early as the early 1990s. With the advent of the Web2.0 era, the development trend of the decentralized Internet is foreseen.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
《失控》成书于九十年代初，正是赛博朋克盛行的时代。当时前沿的思想和科技探索，在二十六年后的今天读起来也未感过时，颇有种未来启示录的感觉。
"Out of Control" was written in the early 1990s, when cyberpunk prevailed. At that time, the cutting-edge thoughts and scientific and technological explorations at that time are not outdated in reading today, and it feels like a future apocalypse.
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《观看之道》，约翰·伯格
Ways of Seeing ， John Berger
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就对艺术的刺激与影响而言，约翰·析格的《观看之道》是罕有匹故的。这本谈论艺术与社会之关系的小册子初版于1972年，基于英国BBC同名电视系列片写成。全书包括7篇文章，其中4篇，图文并用；其余3篇，纯用影像。每篇文章讨论一个主题，诸如：艺术与政治，女性作为观看的对象，油画自身的矛盾以及广告与资本主义白日梦。30多年来，这本书激起的争论历久不衰，其观点已成此领域的常识。
In terms of its stimulation and influence on art, John Schger's "The Way of Seeing" is rare. This booklet on the relationship between art and society was first published in 1972, based on the British BBC TV series of the same name. The book includes 7 articles, 4 of which use both graphics and text; the remaining 3 are purely images. Each article discusses a topic, such as: art and politics, women as objects of viewing, the contradictions of oil painting itself, and advertising and capitalist daydreams. For more than 30 years, the controversy aroused by this book has lasted for a long time, and its views have become common sense in this field.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
《观看之道》是艺术评论家John Berger一档艺术科普节目，很类似于陈丹青老师的《局部》，只是发生在1970年代。我喜欢Berger像是侦探一样剖析艺术品背后的故事，对于我整理自己的设计思路有诸多的帮助。
"The Way of Watching" is a popular art science program by art critic John Berger, which is very similar to "Part" by Chen Danqing, but it took place in the 1970s. I like how Berger analyzes the story behind the artwork like a detective. It helps me to organize my design ideas.
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《大拙至美——梁思成最美的文字建筑》，林洙
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在这本书中梁思成热爱中国传统文化，认为可以将中国的传统建筑形式，用类似语言翻译的方法转化到西方建筑的结构体系上，形成带有中国特色的新建筑。他和夫人林徽因一起实地测绘调研中国古代建筑，并对宋《营造法式》和清《工部工程做法》进行了深入研究，为中国建筑史学奠定了基础。建国后，梁思成在建筑创作理论上提倡古为今用、洋为中用，强调新建筑要对传统形式有所继承。
20世纪50年代，梁思成因提倡新建筑运作大屋顶等传统形式和保护北京古城而多次遭到批判。梁思成的这些理论观点，实际上代表了当时多数建筑师的思想和政府的希望，直到今天依然对中国建筑界有很大影响。梁思成主要作品有吉林大学礼堂和教学楼、仁立公司门面、北京大学女生宿舍、人民英雄纪念碑、鉴真和尚纪念堂等。曾参加天安门人民英雄纪念碑的设计和中华人民共和国国徽的设计。
In this book, Liang Sicheng loves traditional Chinese culture, and believes that traditional Chinese architectural forms can be transformed into the structural system of Western buildings using similar language translation methods to form new buildings with Chinese characteristics. He and his wife Lin Huiyin surveyed ancient Chinese architecture on the spot, and conducted in-depth research on the Song "Building French Style" and the Qing "Engineering Practices of the Ministry of Industry", which laid the foundation for Chinese architectural history. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Liang Sicheng advocated the use of the past for the present and the use of the foreign for the Chinese in architectural creation theory, emphasizing that new buildings should inherit traditional forms.
In the 1950s, Liang Sicheng was criticized many times for advocating traditional forms such as large roofs for new buildings and protecting the ancient city of Beijing. These theoretical views of Liang Sicheng actually represent the thoughts of most architects at that time and the hopes of the government, and they still have a great influence on the Chinese architecture community to this day. Liang Sicheng's main works include the auditorium and teaching building of Jilin University, the facade of Renli Company, the female dormitory of Peking University, the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the Monk Jianzhen Memorial Hall. He has participated in the design of the Tiananmen People’s Heroes Monument and the design of the National Emblem of the People’s Republic of China.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
这是梁思成先生的一部文字合集，其中有学术文章也有私人文字，是对中国建筑史的总结,也是一部生动的个人史。
This is a collection of texts by Mr. Liang Sicheng, including academic articles and private texts. It is a summary of the history of Chinese architecture and a vivid personal history.
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Louis Kahn Essential Texts ， Robert Twombly
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这份独特的选集借鉴了路易斯·卡恩（Louis Kahn）的演讲，论文和访谈（其中一些以前从未发表过），以捕捉这位有影响力的美国建筑师从1940年代初期的作品到1974年去世的思想演变和核心信条。Twombly教授的介绍和主题讨论提供了对文本的深刻评论。
This unique anthology draws on the lectures, essays and interviews of Louis Kahn (some of which have never been published before) to capture the work of the influential American architect from the early 1940s to 1974 The evolution of thoughts and core creeds that passed away. Professor Twombly’s introduction and topics provide insightful comments on the text.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
Kahn的文字与他的建筑一般充满了文学性。
Kahn's writing is full of literature, just like his architectues.
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《建筑变形记》，爱德华·何利斯
The Secret Lives of Buildings ， Edward Hollis
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该书揉合编年史、寓言和神话，描写建筑的爱、失去与时光，挑战建筑书写的一鸣惊人之作。帕德嫩神庙的文物散尽成了废墟，圣索菲亚大教堂成了博物馆，格洛斯特大教堂在电影《哈利波特》中成了霍格沃滋魔法学校，阿兰布拉宫则成了超人气景点，而柏林围墙是收集纪念品的采石场……从石头到纪念碑，从遗迹到废墟，建筑，是多变的。它会被人占据，也会被人改变，同时，它连结了历史和生命，串起神祕与令人好奇的过去。
本书作者何利斯化身为古迹说书人，带领我们穿越时空，探访十三座历史建筑的生命故事，特别是其中不为人知的演化细节：从诞生初始的情景，到数十、数百年来的利用、损毁、窃盗和改造过程。何利斯认为，建筑作品的交替更迭，是美妙又荒谬的演化故事，远比建筑师的生平八卦更有趣，而无论你是否拜访过这些建筑，都会有所感动与收获。评论者认为，在何利斯手中，建筑物彷佛开口说话、形体成长、发生变化了。我们跟着本书游历这一遭，也才惊觉：建筑的成住坏空，往往只是人类文化的缩影，并将所有欲望变形隐藏其中。
The book combines chronicles, fables and myths, describes the love, loss and time of architecture, and challenges architectural writing. The artifacts of the Parthenon were scattered into ruins, Hagia Sophia became a museum, Gloucester Cathedral became the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the movie "Harry Potter", and the Alhambra became extremely popular scenic spots, and the Berlin Wall is a quarry for collecting souvenirs... From stones to monuments, from relics to ruins, architecture is changeable. It will be occupied and changed by people. At the same time, it connects history and life, linking up a mysterious and curious past.
The author of this book, Hollis, is transformed into a storyteller of historical sites, leading us through time and space to explore the life stories of thirteen historical buildings, especially the unknown details of the evolution: The use, destruction, theft, and transformation process from the initial scene of birth to dozens or hundreds of years. Hollis believes that the alternation of architectural works is a wonderful and absurd evolutionary story, far more interesting than the life gossip of the architect, and whether you have visited these buildings or not, you will be touched and rewarded. Critics believe that in the hands of Hollis, the building seems to speak, grow and change in shape. We traveled through this experience with this book, and we were shocked: the building, the living, the bad and the empty, are often just the epitome of human culture, and all desires are transformed and hidden.
推荐理由
Reason for Recommendation
有些建筑有些城市已经在地表上树立了千百年，人类社会沧海桑田，这些古迹是最直接的见证者。此书之后让我在游历遇到有趣的建筑时，更加关心这里曾经发生过什么。
Some buildings and cities have been established on the earth for thousands of years. These monuments are the most direct witnesses of the vicissitudes of human society. After this book, I was more concerned about what happened here when I traveled and encountered interesting buildings.
