本教材以建筑的风格和流派为线索,主要介绍了古典式建筑、现代建筑、绿色建筑、高技术建筑、建筑环境、城市规划、城市设计等方面内容。每个单元包括一篇正文和两篇阅读材料,阅读难度分为简单、中等和较高三个层次,形成难易不同的阶梯,以供不同读者根据需求方便地选择;书后附有常用建筑学词汇及常用建筑术语汉英对照,可供读者查阅。
本书为高等院校建筑学、城市规划专业的教材,以及广大建筑学和城市规划爱好者提高修养、丰富相关知识的阅读材料。

Unit 1 Text: Architecture
Reading Material 1Architects in Practice
Reading Material 2Professional Requirements in English Countries
Unit 2 Text: Classical Order
Reading Material 1Roman Arches
Reading Material 2Greek Architecture and its Legacy in 20th Century American Architecture
Unit 3 Text: Gothic Architecture
Reading Material 1Rose Window
Reading Material 2Gothic Dreamer
Unit 4 Text:The Triumph of the Baroque
Reading Material 1Illusionistic ceiling painting
Reading Material 2Rococo Style
Unit 5 Text:Modern Movement
Reading Material 1The Bauhaus
Reading Material 2Masters of Modern Architecture
Unit 6 Text:Modern Architecture
Reading Material 1Frank Llyod Wright
Reading Material 2The derivation of ideas in Twentiethcentury Architecture
Unit 7 Text: Concrete Resistance:Ando in the Context of Critical Regionalism
Reading Material 1Sverre Fehn
Reading Material 2Prospects for a Critical Regionalism
Unit 8 Text:Postmodernism
Reading Material 1Robert Venturi
Reading Material 2Complexity and Contradiction vs.Simplification or Picturesqueness
Unit 9 Text:Deconstructivism
Reading Material 1Introduction: Notes Towards a Theory of Architectural Disjunction
Reading Material 2Deconstruction and Architecture: A Brief Critique The Ontology of econstruction
Unit 10 Text: Towards a Green Architecture
Reading Material 1Examples of Existing Green Buildings
Reading Material 2Concepts of Durability
Unit 11 Text:Hightech Architecture
Reading Material 1Architects’ Engineering
Reading Material 2Suspending the Limits
Unit 12 Text:Architecture and Chinese Culture
Reading Material 1Architecture and Fengshui
Reading Material 2History of Ancient Chinese Architecture
Unit 13 Text:Ornamental Architecture
Reading Material 1The Art of Chinese Architecture
Reading Material 2Ancient Chinese Architecture:Concrete Music
Unit 14 Text:Chinese Traditional Gardens
Reading Material 1Gardens and Confucianism,Taoism and Chan Buddhism
Reading Material 2The Design of Chinese Gardens
Unit 15 Text: Jane Jacobs,a Staunch Advocate of Cities,Dies
Reading Material 1The Evolution of Modern Urban Planning
Reading Material 2Garden City
Unit 16 Text:Urban Planning and Design
Reading Material 1Public Interest
Reading Material 2The Significance of Participation in Sustainable Community
Unit 17 Text:Architectural Acoustics Ⅰ
Reading Material 1Architectural Acoustics Ⅱ
Reading Material 2Acoustic Design of the National Grand Theatre of China
Unit 18 Text:Source of Light
Reading Material 1Transparent structure
Reading Material 2Requirements and Rewards for Good Lighting Design
GLOSSARY
建筑学专业术语汉英对照
城市史相关术语
外国古代建筑及构造术语
中国古代建筑及构造术语
中国古典园林史名词
工业与民用建筑术语
绿色建筑与智能建筑术语
建筑设计术语
建筑给水排水设计术语
建筑消防设计术语
建筑照明设计术语
采暖通风设计术语
建筑室内环境术语