Five Houses, Ten Details

作者：EdwardR.Ford

出版社：PrincetonArchitecturalPress

出版年：2009-7-1

页数：256

定价：USD40.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9781568988269

内容简介
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Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are two questions Ford has, remarkably, never answered: 'What is a detail?' and more importantly, 'What is a good detail?' Ford is an architect as well as a writer, so it is not surprising that rather than answering these questions in a third book, he spent six years on the design and construction of a house. Building it was not an exercise in the application of ideas about detail; it was, rather, a mechanism for answering those two simple questions. Five Houses, Ten Details presents five designs all by Ford, all for himself, all for the same site only one of which was built. Each unbuilt design evolved or was abandoned for a variety of reasons. Many simply cost too much; others were based on presumptions that proved inaccurate or unproductive. All, to some degree, are present in the final design. Each of the five designs explores a different aspect of architectural detail: how it acts to connect to or disconnect from a site; how it is expressive of material; how it acts to reveal structure; how it articulates the act of construction; and how it can be inconsistent, in a beneficial way, with the remainder of the building. Detail for Ford is not an accessory to architecture but its essence. Each design in Five Houses, Ten Details explores and articulates one aspect site, structure, material, joinery, or furniture at the expense of the others. Each architectural exploration leads to a larger understanding of construction and a larger understanding of how details communicate. Woven throughout with historical references and specific examples of his design process, Five Houses, Ten Details is an accessible and at times personal account of one man's exploration of architectural detail.

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这是一本在我看来，“问题”优于“答案”的著作。通过类似创作日记般的夹着建筑史案例解析的细部问题讨论，Ford指出了当下建筑细部设计的困境，部分成因，以及在他看来，可能的对策。从理论上讲，此书留下了巨大的发展空间：譬如，到底人类对于细部的移情，该是怎样的过程，是普适性的过程，还是文化性的小普适性过程？有没有一种自己的演化史？这样的问题显然又会绕回社会史。这种抽象整体与细腻细部的矛盾，是不是当代社会才…

总感觉作者有种鸣鸣得意的絮叨，设计其实做的并不是那么好，不过每个开场白都比较有启发。

一个文章比建筑作品好的建筑师，存在的价值仿佛是为了理清建筑变化的蛛丝马迹，而不是产生或者诱导变化，从而和平行世界的商业建筑有了联系。学术界和商业界的吹水是两个路数，一个是娓娓道来这一切都是我思考而非抄袭的后果，一个是看看这个空间这钱花给我您绝对不亏。都好难啊，感觉作为一个真正的建筑师要天生自信自傲才行

是有关于一个房子的5个想法和方案的书。每个作为引子的想法比紧接后面的实际方案要有意思。

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