Rice's Language of Buildings

赖斯的建筑语言：英国建筑手绘图鉴

出版商：Bloomsbury Publishing

发布日期： 2019年5月14日

语言： 英语

印刷长度： 240页

ISBN-10： 1408893789

ISBN-13： 978-1408893784

物品重量： 2.31磅

尺寸： 7.3 x 1 x 10 英寸

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

由备受赞誉的插画家兼建筑爱好者马修·赖斯（Matthew Rice）撰写的《建筑语言》一书，以精美的包装和独特的视角，介绍了英国的建筑风格。本书涵盖了英国建筑的语法和词汇，阐释了从诺曼城堡到诺曼·福斯特（Norman Foster）的建筑风格的演变历程。其目标是帮助读者识别、理解并判断任何英国建筑的建造年代。正如马修·赖斯所说：“一旦你掌握了任何一种语言，对话便可开始；否则，交流只能是简短而生硬的。建筑亦是如此：如果无法描述建筑的组成部分，人们就会哑口无言，无法开始讨论建筑的精彩之处、乏味之处或独特之处。” 《建筑语言》将阐释建筑的语言。有了它，建筑将巧妙地分解成各个组成部分，供你观察和讨论。从此，你将不再需要提及“那个带方形凸起的建筑物顶部的卷曲部分”之类的描述。笨拙生硬的描述将成为过去，您将精通涡卷纹、檐口线脚、叶状门框和牛头饰等建筑元素，参观完教堂或乡村别墅后，您将能像欣赏电影或戏剧一样侃侃而谈。《建筑语言》首先解释建筑的基本“语法”：立面、平面、屋顶、山墙和屋檐。这将帮助读者更好地理解后续内容。本书还将涵盖建筑柱式——多立克柱式、托斯卡纳柱式、爱奥尼柱式、科林斯柱式和混合柱式——从而涵盖古典主义建筑的精髓。接下来是“词汇表”。这是一个按时间顺序排列的参考部分，逐一介绍构成建筑环境的窗户、门和门框、柱子、烟囱、拱门、栏杆和山墙。

A beautifully packaged, idiosyncratic introduction to British building styles, by the acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice.

The Language of Buildings covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman castles to Norman Foster. Its aim is to enable the reader to recognize, understand and date any British building.

As Matthew Rice says, "Once you can speak any language, conversation can begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish. The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar about it." The Language of Buildings will explain the language of architecture. With it in your hand, buildings will break down beguilingly into their component parts, ready for inspection and discussion. There will be no more references to that curly bit on top of the thing with the square protrusions. Ungainly and inept descriptions will be a thing of the past and, fluent in the world of volutes, hood moulds, lobed architraves and bucrania, you will be able to leave a cathedral or country house with as much to talk about as a film or play.

The Language of Buildings starts with an explanation of the basic "Grammar" of buildings: elevation, plan, roof, gable and eave. This will enable the reader to better make use of what is to follow. It will also cover the Orders of Architecture--Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite--so that the vital basics of Classicism are covered. Following this is the "Vocabulary." This will be a chronological reference section covering, period by period, the windows, doors and doorcases, columns, chimneys, arches, balustrades and pediments that make up the built environment.

马修·赖斯是广受赞誉的《赖斯建筑入门》的作者和插画家；您可能也在《乡村生活》杂志、他自己的日历或他妻子艾玛·布里奇沃特的许多陶器作品上见过他的作品。他居住在牛津和诺福克。

Matthew Rice is the acclaimed author and illustrator of Rice's Architectural Primer; you might also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater's pottery. He lives in Oxford and Norfolk.