本教材以建筑的风格和流派为线索，主要介绍了古典式建筑、现代建筑、绿色建筑、高技术建筑、建筑环境、城市规划、城市设计等方面内容。每个单元包括一篇正文和两篇阅读材料，阅读难度分为简单、中等和较高三个层次，形成难易不同的阶梯，以供不同读者根据需求方便地选择；书后附有常用建筑学词汇及常用建筑术语汉英对照，可供读者查阅。
本书为高等院校建筑学、城市规划专业的教材，以及广大建筑学和城市规划爱好者提高修养、丰富相关知识的阅读材料。

Unit 1 Text： Architecture
Reading Material 1 Architects in Practice
Reading Material 2 Professional Requirements in English Countries
Unit 2 Text： Classical Order
Reading Material 1 Roman Arches
Reading Material 2 Greek Architecture and its Legacy in 20th Century American Architecture
Unit 3 Text： Gothic Architecture
Reading Material 1 Rose Window
Reading Material 2 Gothic Dreamer
Unit 4 Text：The Triumph of the Baroque
Reading Material 1 Illusionistic ceiling painting
Reading Material 2 Rococo Style
Unit 5 Text：Modern Movement
Reading Material 1 The Bauhaus
Reading Material 2 Masters of Modern Architecture
Unit 6 Text：Modern Architecture
Reading Material 1 Frank Llyod Wright
Reading Material 2 The derivation of ideas in Twentiethcentury Architecture
Unit 7 Text： Concrete Resistance：Ando in the Context of Critical Regionalism
Reading Material 1 Sverre Fehn
Reading Material 2 Prospects for a Critical Regionalism
Unit 8 Text：Postmodernism
Reading Material 1 Robert Venturi
Reading Material 2 Complexity and Contradiction vs.Simplification or Picturesqueness
Unit 9 Text：Deconstructivism
Reading Material 1 Introduction： Notes Towards a Theory of Architectural Disjunction
Reading Material 2 Deconstruction and Architecture： A Brief Critique The Ontology of econstruction
Unit 10 Text： Towards a Green Architecture
Reading Material 1 Examples of Existing Green Buildings
Reading Material 2 Concepts of Durability
Unit 11 Text：High-tech Architecture
Reading Material 1 Architects Engineering
Reading Material 2 Suspending the Limits
Unit 12 Text：Architecture and Chinese Culture
Reading Material 1 Architecture and Fengshui
Reading Material 2 History of Ancient Chinese Architecture
Unit 13 Text：Ornamental Architecture
Reading Material 1 The Art of Chinese Architecture
Reading Material 2 Ancient Chinese Architecture：Concrete Music
Unit 14 Text：Chinese Traditional Gardens
Reading Material 1 Gardens and Confucianism，Taoism and Chan Buddhism
Reading Material 2 The Design of Chinese Gardens
Unit 15 Text： Jane Jacobs，a Staunch Advocate of Cities，Dies
Reading Material 1 The Evolution of Modern Urban Planning
Reading Material 2 Garden City
Unit 16 Text：Urban Planning and Design
Reading Material 1 Public Interest
Reading Material 2 The Significance of Participation in Sustainable Community
Unit 17 Text：Architectural Acoustics Ⅰ
Reading Material 1 Architectural Acoustics Ⅱ
Reading Material 2 Acoustic Design of the National Grand Theatre of China
Unit 18 Text：Source of Light
Reading Material 1 Transparent structure
Reading Material 2 Requirements and Rewards for Good Lighting Design
GLOSSARY
建筑学专业术语汉英对照
城市史相关术语
外国古代建筑及构造术语
中国古代建筑及构造术语
中国古典园林史名词
工业与民用建筑术语
绿色建筑与智能建筑术语
建筑设计术语
建筑给水排水设计术语
建筑消防设计术语
建筑照明设计术语
采暖通风设计术语
建筑室内环境术语