2018年，是阿尔多‘凡’艾克（Aldo van Eyck．下文称“凡·艾克”）（1918-1999）诞辰1DO周年。在创造性与毁灭性并存的20世纪——这个前无古人的，甚至可以称得上重新定义了建筑的时代．凡·艾克无疑是最激励人心、最诗意盎...2018年，是阿尔多‘凡’艾克（Aldo van Eyck．下文称“凡·艾克”）（1918-1999）诞辰1DO周年。在创造性与毁灭性并存的20世纪——这个前无古人的，甚至可以称得上重新定义了建筑的时代．凡·艾克无疑是最激励人心、最诗意盎然的人文主义建筑师之一，其设计思想及建筑作品从根本上塑造了当代人认识和理解世界的视角。展开更多
Of all aspects of architecture what mystifies most the layman is the power of architects as ＇creators＇, their apparent capability to invent, conceive and construct ＇out of nothing＇ unprecedented daring forms.
Introduction This text is written on the happy occasion of Professor Wu Liangyong’s one hundredth birthday and as homage to him as a“people’s architect,”planner,historian,educator,dreamer,and humanist.His oeuvre,o...Introduction This text is written on the happy occasion of Professor Wu Liangyong’s one hundredth birthday and as homage to him as a“people’s architect,”planner,historian,educator,dreamer,and humanist.His oeuvre,overcoming two centuries of catastrophic crises,bridges critical understanding of the past and visionary planning for the future.It brings together in a systemic,holistic synthesis design,construction,regional science,history,and urban sociology.Here,we trace concisely,the development of his thinking and practice,his optimism to conceive.展开更多
This paper examines the need for a return to a systemic,holistic,and normative approach to designing human settlements that has been neglected with the decline of the Welfare State and the shift to iecemeal,freewheeli...This paper examines the need for a return to a systemic,holistic,and normative approach to designing human settlements that has been neglected with the decline of the Welfare State and the shift to iecemeal,freewheeling,marked-based development during the unprecedented explosion of construction in the last thirty years.The need for a change is brought about by the current ecological and economic crises linked to a high degree to the current belief that the quality of cities emerges from the added-value of individual buildings or through the assemblage of individual structures put together like a building.This paper argues that a city is not like a building.The contemporary city is characterized by an unprecedented number of problems.These problems cannot be handled by individual good will or simple preventive or corrective actions by architects and developers as it has been done the last three decades.What is needed is an overall systemic framework of planning that ① is driven by normative criteria,② can handle a high degree of complexity and interdependence of factors,and ③ can deal with unanticipated,unintended,long-term irreversible environmental impacts that characterize the "third ecology," the inseparable complex of the natural and the human-made.展开更多
Perhaps, the most important challenge that architectural education faces today, perhaps even more serious than responding to the technological development of computer based design and drafting, is the recognition of t...Perhaps, the most important challenge that architectural education faces today, perhaps even more serious than responding to the technological development of computer based design and drafting, is the recognition of the fact that next to the ‘lobal＇, ‘iversal＇ ‘nowledge＇ of architecture, or ‘core＇ as it is often called there is ‘local＇ knowledge that corresponds to each of the many regions of the world and that this ‘local＇, ‘regional＇ knowledge has to be taken into account in architectural practice and in architectural education.展开更多
In a world undergoing globak changes at a scale and kind never encountered before, a wortd not only of unprecedented technological innovation, economic might, and global acces- sibility, but also a world of unparallel...In a world undergoing globak changes at a scale and kind never encountered before, a wortd not only of unprecedented technological innovation, economic might, and global acces- sibility, but also a world of unparalleled socio-environmenta[ crises, are our schools of architecture providing the right know[edge reauired for design and construction？展开更多
Comptaints about the poor performance of architects and the declining quatity of buildings have been common in the west since the Renaissance. They intensify at the end of the eighteenth century, when architectural ed...Comptaints about the poor performance of architects and the declining quatity of buildings have been common in the west since the Renaissance. They intensify at the end of the eighteenth century, when architectural education became institutionalized. The failures were blamed not only on the architects but on what was thought to be the poor quality of architectural education.展开更多
文摘2018年，是阿尔多‘凡’艾克（Aldo van Eyck．下文称“凡·艾克”）（1918-1999）诞辰1DO周年。在创造性与毁灭性并存的20世纪——这个前无古人的，甚至可以称得上重新定义了建筑的时代．凡·艾克无疑是最激励人心、最诗意盎然的人文主义建筑师之一，其设计思想及建筑作品从根本上塑造了当代人认识和理解世界的视角。
文摘Of all aspects of architecture what mystifies most the layman is the power of architects as ＇creators＇, their apparent capability to invent, conceive and construct ＇out of nothing＇ unprecedented daring forms.
文摘Introduction This text is written on the happy occasion of Professor Wu Liangyong’s one hundredth birthday and as homage to him as a“people’s architect,”planner,historian,educator,dreamer,and humanist.His oeuvre,overcoming two centuries of catastrophic crises,bridges critical understanding of the past and visionary planning for the future.It brings together in a systemic,holistic synthesis design,construction,regional science,history,and urban sociology.Here,we trace concisely,the development of his thinking and practice,his optimism to conceive.
文摘This paper examines the need for a return to a systemic,holistic,and normative approach to designing human settlements that has been neglected with the decline of the Welfare State and the shift to iecemeal,freewheeling,marked-based development during the unprecedented explosion of construction in the last thirty years.The need for a change is brought about by the current ecological and economic crises linked to a high degree to the current belief that the quality of cities emerges from the added-value of individual buildings or through the assemblage of individual structures put together like a building.This paper argues that a city is not like a building.The contemporary city is characterized by an unprecedented number of problems.These problems cannot be handled by individual good will or simple preventive or corrective actions by architects and developers as it has been done the last three decades.What is needed is an overall systemic framework of planning that ① is driven by normative criteria,② can handle a high degree of complexity and interdependence of factors,and ③ can deal with unanticipated,unintended,long-term irreversible environmental impacts that characterize the "third ecology," the inseparable complex of the natural and the human-made.
文摘Perhaps, the most important challenge that architectural education faces today, perhaps even more serious than responding to the technological development of computer based design and drafting, is the recognition of the fact that next to the ‘lobal＇, ‘iversal＇ ‘nowledge＇ of architecture, or ‘core＇ as it is often called there is ‘local＇ knowledge that corresponds to each of the many regions of the world and that this ‘local＇, ‘regional＇ knowledge has to be taken into account in architectural practice and in architectural education.
文摘In a world undergoing globak changes at a scale and kind never encountered before, a wortd not only of unprecedented technological innovation, economic might, and global acces- sibility, but also a world of unparalleled socio-environmenta[ crises, are our schools of architecture providing the right know[edge reauired for design and construction？
文摘Comptaints about the poor performance of architects and the declining quatity of buildings have been common in the west since the Renaissance. They intensify at the end of the eighteenth century, when architectural education became institutionalized. The failures were blamed not only on the architects but on what was thought to be the poor quality of architectural education.
