UNIT ONE

Text What a Building is

Reading Material A Facades

Reading Material B Internal Space

UNIT TWO

Text Making Architectural Judgements

Reading Material A Criteria for Evaluating Proposed Architecture

Reading Material B The Midland Bank and Carpenter Center

UNIT THREE

Text The Legacy of Modernism in New Classicism

Reading Material A The Classical Reality

Reading Material B What the Classical Can Do for the Modern

UNIT FOUR

Text The Skyscraper

Reading Material A Going Taller

Reading Material B The Impact of Tall Buildings Pedostrian Needs

UNIT FIVE

Text Safety in Design

Reading Material A Choice of Basic Variables

Reading Material B Loads

UNIT SIX

Text On Design

Reading Material A Design Methods

Reading Material B Architects and Internet

UNIT SEVEN

Text Masonry: Reaching New Heights

Reading Material A Building Code: Checking Out the New Regulations

Reading Material B Means of Escape

UNIT EIGHT

Text Green Buildings

Reading Material A Organic Architecture: Subtlety and Power

Reading Material B Is Intelligent the Opposite of Clever

Text The Ornamental Aesthetics

UNIT NINE

Reading Material A The Ornamental Aesthetics (Ⅱ)

Reading Material B The Ornamental Aesthetics (Ⅲ)

UNIT TEN

Text On Garden

Reading Material A The Oriental Influence

Reading Material B Gardens of the VILLAD'ESTE

UNIT ELEVEN

Text Aesthetic Plans of Furniture Arrangement

Reading Material A The Ornamental Impulse

Reading Material B The Rise of Interior Decoration

UNIT TWELVE

Text A Theory of Landscape Architecture

Reading Material A Elements of Landscape Architectural Design

Reading Material B Office Landscape

Text Urban Sense

UNIT THIRTEEN

Reading Material A Urban Design and the Physical Environmen——conventional concerns in Urban Design

Reading Material B The Practice and Problems of Town Planning

UNIT FOURTEEN

Text Evaluation Methods in Urban and Regional Planning

Reading Material A Underlying Issues in Evaluation

Reading Material B Variables for Application of Techniques

Text Fatal Remedies——The Sources of Ineffectiveness in Planning

UNIT FIFTEEN

Reading Material A Sieber's Mechanisms for Planning Failure

Reading Material B Commentary on Sieber's Mechanisms

UNIT SIXTEEN

Text The Two Paradigms of Zoning

Reading Material A Visions of the City of the Future

Reading Material B Reflections on the Future Residential Landscape ——Low-rise/High-density as a Planning Ⅰ deal

Appendix Ⅰ Vocabulary

Appendix Ⅱ Translation for Reference

Appendix Ⅲ Key to Exercises