Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture 模型视角：结构 建筑和文化

本书包含了关于结构与建筑形式和空间之间关系的各种观点的独特集合。因此，它为学生和专业人士提供了一个必不可少的资料手册，可以挖掘视觉灵感，以及文本丰富和权威的洞察结构，建筑和文化背景之间的联系。这些章节涉及基本结构元素和系统：柱，墙，梁，桁架，框架，拉伸结构，拱门，圆顶和外壳。每章分为两部分：
论文 - 介绍章节，重印各种作者的精选文章和摘录，独特地阐述特定结构元素或系统如何以基本方式与建筑设计概念相关联。
模型研究 - 来自欧洲，北美洲和南美洲，非洲和亚洲的几个着名的现代建筑的整体结构系统的物理模型用大型照片，细节特写镜头以及它们的外部形式和内部空间的视图来说明这些项目在结构形式与建筑设计目标之间的卓越品质。马赛克布局完成了章节，其中包含更多模型的照片集，其特定的细节和独特的功能有助于扩展所考虑的结构类型的视觉效果。
这两个系列的组合，并置和相互正面强化，一个主要是文本和另一个基于图像，为读者提供了结构形式和系统如何与建筑设计意图相关的独特和多方面的见解。通过强大而深思熟虑的图形设计格式传达，这种材料组合在建筑环境中得到了结构的本质，并将激励学生和从业者为自己的项目做出战略设计决策。
This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The chapters address fundamental structural elements and systems: columns, walls, beams, trusses, frames, tensile structures, arches, domes and shells. Each chapter is subdivided into two parts:
The essays - introduce the chapters with the reprinting of a curated set of essays and excerpts by various authors that uniquely address how particular structural elements or systems relate in essential fashion to architectural design concepts.
The model studies - physical models of the overall structural systems of several notable contemporary buildings from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are illustrated with large photographs, detail close-ups, and views of their external forms and internal spaces that establish the exceptional qualities of these projects in connecting structural form to architectural design objectives. Mosaic layouts complete the chapters with a collection of photographs of yet more models whose particular details and unique features serve to extend the visual repertoire of the structural type being considered.
The combination, juxtaposition and mutual positive reinforcement of these two collections, one largely textual and the other image based, provides the reader with unique and multifaceted insights into how structural forms and systems can be related to architectural design intentions. Conveyed by a strong and deliberate graphical design format, this assembly of materials gets to the very essence of structures within the context of architecture, and will inspire students and practitioners alike to make strategic design decisions for their own projects.