巴洛克与洛可可是17―18世纪流行于欧洲的两种艺术风格，二者都属于贵族艺术。巴洛克是17世纪欧洲艺术的总称，发源于罗马，而后迅速在意大利全国范围内流行起来，并传播到当时的法国、荷兰等国家。它主要体现在教堂建筑、绘画、室内装饰、庭院设计等各个方面。到了18世纪，轻快、秀气、纤细典雅的洛可可风格取代华丽、夸张、矫揉造作的巴洛克风格，成了全欧洲艺术风格的主流。 本书作者以艺术史家的独特视角，将巴洛克与洛可可这两种艺术风格置于当时欧洲的历史背景下进行审视，以通俗、轻松的文字描绘了巴洛克与洛可可艺术的丰富世界，介绍了相关的艺术理念，而书中大量的珍贵插图则会带给我们直观的印象和审美的享受。

A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

Architects' Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. Organised largely by building type, and with over 6000 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements and also covers planning criteria and considerations of function and siting. Most illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details. There are substantial new sections on: building components services heating lighting thermal and sound insulation fire protection designing for the disabled An extensive bibliography and a detailed set of metric/imperial conversion tables are included. Since it was first published in Germany in 1936, Ernst Neufert's handbook has been progressively revised and updated through 35 editions and many translations. This Third Edition of the English language version has been revised for the first time in 20 years and completely reworked, with 40% more material, to provide a major new edition for an international readership. Browse sample pages and buy online: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/architectsdata

本书试图提供一种从不同角度分析城市问题和解读城市文本的价值视野，并从四种角度看待和认识城市：一是建筑和城市领域内对城市价值观念的变革，将城市视为一种人工建造的实体环境加以认识；二是将城市理解为一种时间和空间的集合体；三则是将城市理解为一个“市场”的模型，四是将城市视作人的集合体。
本书对于我们如何认识城市，如何从不同的价值视角评判城市的优劣得失提供了有益的启示，提醒我们拓出专业视野的局限进行这些关于城市的哲学思考。同时，本书为我们展示了当代世界城市研究的最新进展、和突破，为我们提供了大量非常有益的咨讯，对于从事和城市有关的学习者、从业者和学术研究者都具有重要的参考价值。

此书是一部关于三百多年来现代建筑理论的通览性著作。作者将建筑理论定义为“建筑观念或建筑写作的历史”，所以在具体的理论叙事中频频跨越时空，追溯各种理论的发展脉络，令人信服地呈现出现代建筑观念的发展历史。同时，建筑观念史在本书中又呈现为一部“问题史”，作者着力讨论了“现代”框架下不同时期各国建筑师所面临的问题，以及围绕这些问题展开的争论和提出的应对方案。
宽广的学术视野、复调式的写作结构、层次丰富而细腻的历史叙述，是本书的一大特色。作者坚持文化史、思想史的统一性与多学科的综合性，将建筑理论、建筑史、美术史、艺术理论熔于一炉，尤其注重挖掘建筑理论背后的哲学、宗教、科学等领域的思想资源。作者还将建筑师的理论思考与他们的创作实践有机结合，使理论与作品相互映衬、相互发明。

本书内容包括：佛光的折射、释尊的生涯、佛像与佛寺、山门与天王殿、大雄宝殿、菩萨、观世音菩萨、中国的罗汉、汉化的诸天、藏经与藏经阁、塔与经幢、受戒与戒坛、僧人生活与佛事。
中国佛教界从传承的角度，将中国佛教的派系划分为汉传佛教、藏传佛教、南传上座邪佛教三大系。“汉传”与“汉化”仅一字之差，却说明与白化文同志的着眼点不同，虽然并不冲突，却是应该提出来的。

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。

本书是第一本全面介绍自1968年以来过去40多年间重要的建筑理论和建筑思想的图书。它以敏锐而生动的文字阐述了深刻的问题，描述了发生在建筑思想领域中的一场真正的革命，以及这种知识大动荡所带来的影响。本书也是第一本完整的且具有批判性的建筑理论史，它涉及了广泛意义上的建筑理论架构，包括城市规划、建筑结构和景观设计；涵盖了对自1968年以来的建筑思想史的调查（包括对高技派现代主义的批判、后现代主义和后结构主义理论的兴起，批判的地域主义和建构），全面回顾了过去15年在建筑思想中所产生的显著变化，系统介绍了1970年代、1980年代、1990年代三个10年中出现的新的理论观点及其代表人物和代表作品，总结、分析了建筑领域的现状及其未来一些年可能会出现的趋势。
本书实例充足、文字生动，观点鲜明，条理清晰，语言通俗易懂，具有一定的思想深度。对我国建筑师、城市规划师和相关专业的在校师生而言，这无疑是本很有价值的建筑理论文献，而对建筑历史、建筑理论感兴趣的一般读者而言，本书也具有较高的可读性。

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.

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.

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English-until now. This first English edition, deftly translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre's sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of ???.

Jeff Speck has spent his career determining what makes a city work, and he has boiled it down to one essential factor: walkability. For urban life to thrive, cities must prioritize pedestrians over cars. Six-lane highways tearing through downtown must give way to crossable streets, massive parking lots must give way to pedestrian plazas, architecture designed to be appreciated from afar must give way to welcoming buildings. Making all of this happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing what needs to be done is the trick. Speck can show us the invisible workings underneath the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can make the right decisions for our cities. Cities have been recognized as the key to sustainable living. But New York, San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. - these are not the next great American cities, and they are not where the future of urban life will be formed. Most Americans live in midsize cities - Lowell, Massachusetts; Tacoma, Washington; Grand Rapids, Michigan - that need downtowns that are vibrant and appealing; they need to feel like the urban hubs that they are. They need walkability. Bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight to what urban planners actually do and how cities can and do change, "Walkable City" lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our American cities work.

文物建筑和历史文化古城的保护在世界上已经形成热潮。这股风也吹到我国，但我们对它的基本理念其实还很隔膜。陈志华先生用自然优美、精确平实的笔调，从历史、文化、建筑风格和民俗等多个角度，介绍了意大利近二十个历史文化古城、数百栋古建筑和对它们的保护。读者在愉悦的阅读中，不知不觉对意大利人民尊重文化、爱护古建筑的非功利性态度和科学精神留下了深刻印象，并且对当前世界上关于保护文化建筑和历史文化古城的主流理论、原则和方法有了大致的认识。
随文配有数百幅图片，包括地图、建筑照片等，有的十分罕见，使本书不仅具有阅读和收藏价值，亦可作为意大利古建筑旅游的指南。

《伊斯兰：艺术与建筑》追寻了伊斯兰地区的历史发展，突出了源自信仰的不同艺术表现形式。展现了伊斯兰艺术与建筑丰富的艺术创造，从叙利亚的倭马亚王朝到印度的莫卧儿帝国，从奥斯曼帝国直至现当代艺术。

尼罗河畔的奇异之旅，数千年的古老文明，这就是世界上最优秀的摄影师眼中的古埃及，他们敏锐地捕捉到主要考古遗址的神秘氛围和重要意义一。简单明了但信息量丰富的文本包含有图片注解，还有专门的图表和图绘帮助读者穿越目眩神迷的法老世界。
本书是《古文明之光丛书》中的一册，通过精美的图片与精炼的语言，浅易、明晰、生动地展现了古埃及文明全景。书中首先概述埃及地理和历史，然后逐步深入描述各处考古发现和重大遗址的来龙去脉，讲述它们在19世纪被重新探索的故事。

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.

上海近代建筑是上海近代城市文化的一个重要组成部分，上海近代建筑在中国近代建筑史书上占有极其重要的一页。《上海百年建筑史1840-1949》试图从政治、经济、社会和文化等方面人手，探索上海近代建筑形成与发展的动因，寻求上海近代建筑的演变轨迹。《上海百年建筑史1840-1949》对近代上海各时期的建筑技术发展、建筑师及其建筑设计思想和建筑中表现出的风格特征进行了全面的考察和论证，并将寻其置于世界近代建筑史的大背景与上海近代史的大环境中进行了深入的分析与研究，其目的是试图展示一部较为完整，较为全面，也较为系统的上海近代建筑史，可供建筑、规划和历史研究人员及广大建箭罟好者阅读参考。

石峁遗址位于陕西省神木县高家堡镇石峁村的秃尾河北侧山峁上，地处陕北黄土高原北部边缘。近年来的区域系统考古调查和考古勘探、发掘确认了石峁遗址由“皇城台”、内城、外城三座基本完整并相对独立的石构城址组成，是中国已发现的龙山晚期到夏代早期规模最大的城址。陕西省考古研究院等编著的《发现石峁古城》分为三部分，分别为考古发现成果、研究成果、大事记，比较全面的展示了石峁遗址从1976年发现以来学界对于石峁遗址的深刻认识以及近年来考古发掘的重大收获。

近代扑面而来的西方教育体系和美学理论，早已抑制了我们内心对中国传统审美价值的认知。而黑川先生则运用了“日本是西方世界观的奴隶”的警语，为我们打开了通往重新审视自我内心、开启审美意识的门扉。