《现代建筑》内容介绍

　　“现代建筑的历史是一段关于改革、‘先锋派’潮流的历史，而非一段试图中立地、不带意识形态色彩地去解决整个建筑生产问题的历史。”

　　著名建筑评论家、普林斯顿大学建筑学荣休教授艾伦·科洪，围绕文化与工业、审美与实用等核心主题，透过评述20世纪上半叶欧美各国现代建筑运动及其得失，简明且精准地呈现出现代建筑的发展全貌。

　　科洪教授从建筑与现代性外部条件冲突的重要时刻切入，不拘于分析具体的建筑作品，着意厘清功能主义、有机主义、表现主义、未来主义等关键思想在各国的演变，揭示贯穿现代建筑运动的主要矛盾，同时将现代建筑大师——勒·柯布西耶、密斯·凡·德·罗、弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特、路易斯·康等人的实践，置于各自社会与文化思想背景中做出新的诠释。

　　作者简介

　　作者|艾伦·科洪（AlanColquhoun，1921—2012）

　　英国建筑师、建筑评论家、建筑史学者，普林斯顿大学建筑学荣休教授，1985年获艺术与传播中心（CAyC）最佳建筑评论家奖。

　　科洪毕业于爱丁堡艺术学院及伦敦建筑联盟学院，1961年与约翰·米勒合作创办建筑公司，1981年起任教于普林斯顿大学建筑学院，还曾于哈佛大学、剑桥大学等高校担任客座讲师，立足于20世纪后半期以来的现代建筑发展与建筑设计实践，从事教学、评论、研究。其他著作包括《现代性与古典传统：建筑论稿1980—¬1987》及《建筑评论：现代建筑与历史嬗变》。

　　译者|姚俊

　　湖南大学建筑学学士，中央美术学院硕士、博士，现任教于湖南工业大学包装设计艺术学院，主要讲授现代艺术史、现代设计史等课程。

"Modern Architecture" content introduction

"The history of modern architecture is a history of reform, of 'avant-garde' trends, not a history of trying to solve the whole problem of architectural production neutrally and without ideology."

Alan Cohon, a renowned architectural critic and emeritus professor of architecture at Princeton University, focuses on the core themes of culture and industry, aesthetics and utility, and presents a concise and accurate picture of the development of modern architecture through the review of the modern architectural movement in Europe and the United States in the first half of the 20th century and its gains and losses.

Starting from the important moment of the conflict between architecture and the external conditions of modernity, Professor Cohun does not confine himself to analyzing specific architectural works, but tries to clarify the evolution of key ideas such as functionalism, organism, expressionism and futurism in various countries, and reveals the main contradictions that run through the modern architectural movement. At the same time, the practice of modern architects -- Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, etc., is placed in their own social and cultural ideological background to make a new interpretation.

About the author

By | AlanColquhoun (1921-2012)

British architect, architectural critic, and architectural historian, emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and recipient of the 1985 Center for Arts and Communication (CAyC) Award for Best Architectural Critic.

Cohun graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art and the Architectural Alliance in London, founded an architecture firm with John Miller in 1961, taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton University in 1981, and served as a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Cambridge University and other universities, based on the development of modern architecture and architectural design practice since the second half of the 20th century. Teaching, criticism, research. His other books include Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987 and Architectural Review: Modern Architecture and Historical Change.

Translator | Jun Yao

Bachelor of Architecture from Hunan University, Master and Doctor from Central Academy of Fine Arts, currently teaching at School of Packaging Design Art, Hunan University of Technology, mainly teaching modern art history, modern design history and other courses.