The Idea of Building

Thought and action in the design and production of buildings

● Acknowledgements 致謝

● Preface (William Allen) 引言

● Foreword (Derek Sugden) 前言

● Preliminaries 序

● Book One The Flight from Equilibrium

平衡對稱的形式

1. Buildings as unstable systems in dynamic environments

2. Flows of matter and energy

3. Uncertainty in the industrial environment

4. The decline of technical precedent

5. The social demand for buildings

● Interlude 插曲

● Some Polemical Remarks 評論

● Book Two Building Knowledge and Building Experience

建築知識及建築經驗

1. Historical concepts of building science

2. The analysis of sensations

3. The analysis of energy

4. BuiIding engineering

5. Building pathology and its lessons

6. Intelligent building and intelligent sites

7. The building process

8. Systems and conventions

9. What industry follows function?

10. Representation and regularity

11. Technology transfer

12. Who is the builder?

13. The idea of technology, and its critics

● Book Three Another Critical Position

另一個評論性的立場

1. The typical detail

2. Building details in structure and form

3. The buildings of Alvar Aalto

● In conclusion 結論

● Author index 作者索引

● Subject index 主題索引

● 摘要整理

● 探討議題

● 參考資料