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