建筑学专业英语-unit one.ppt

What is architecture? Introduction. Many design professionals admire and attempt to incorporate into their designs for the built environment elements reflecting underlying human psychological and spiritual needs and cultural values. Incorporate [in’k?:p?reit] vt. 包含, 加上, 吸收 把…合并, 使并入 in-内+corporate 社团的 incorporate into?使成为…的一部分 psychological spiritual 心理上的 精神上的 But none has broken so completely with conventional architecture practice and sought more deeply to make his designs reflect these fundamental values than Austrian-born, British-trained, U.S-based architect/planner Christopher Alexander. conventional adj. 依照惯例的, 约定俗成的, 依照传统的 常规的, 非核的 fundamental adj. 基本的; 重要的, 必要的 Alexander is a self-proclaimed iconoclast, deliberately distancing himself from virtually all the major mainstream currents of twentieth-century architectural and planning thought. self-proclaimed adj. 自称的 iconoclast n. 攻击传统观念的人 反对崇拜圣像者 deliberately adv. 故意地 mainstream n. (思想或行为的)主流 It is notable that the eight “treelike” plans he single out for attack in the most respected and famous twentieth-century plans from Le Corbusier’s plan for the new town of Chandigarh, India, based on his principles for a contemporary city, to Paolo Soleri’s visionary megastructure of Mesa city in the Arizona desert. single out 挑选 megastructure n. 巨厦(指一种设想中的建筑学与生态学相结合的巨型建筑体) Since publication of his provocative early attack on the sterility of formal “treelike” city plans in the following selection, Alexander has been engaged in a lifelong search to decipher the deep structures underlying human needs and to define recurring patterns for a new paradigm of architecture. provocative adj. 煽动性的, 刺激性的, 挑衅的 sterility n. 思想贫乏 paradigm n. 范例; 样式; 模范 The following selection is clear that a city should not