本教材以建筑的風格和流派為線索，主要介紹了古典式建筑、現代建筑、綠色建筑、高技術建筑、建筑環境、城市規劃、城市設計等方面內容。每個單元包括一篇正文和兩篇閱讀材料，閱讀難度分為簡單、中等和較高三個層次，形成難易不同的階梯，以供不同讀者根據需求方便地選擇；書后附有常用建筑學詞匯及常用建筑術語漢英對照，可供讀者查閱。
本書為高等院校建筑學、城市規劃專業的教材，以及廣大建筑學和城市規劃愛好者提高修養、豐富相關知識的閱讀材料。
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 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 Twentiethcentury 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:Hightech 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
建筑學專業術語漢英對照
城市史相關術語
外國古代建筑及構造術語
中國古代建筑及構造術語
中國古典園林史名詞
工業與民用建筑術語
綠色建筑與智能建筑術語
建筑設計術語
建筑給水排水設計術語
建筑消防設計術語
建筑照明設計術語
采暖通風設計術語
建筑室內環境術語
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