SEU/IDS Advanced Architectural Design Theory（Spring 2025）

东南大学建筑学院/建筑国际化示范学院

研究生课程“建筑设计理论前沿”（2025年春季学期）

Instructor: Prof. David Leatherbarrow

Coordinator: Prof. SHI Yonggao

Teaching Assistant: LI Jianhui, YAN Fanhui

Venue: Asian Architectural Archive Center (Sipailou Campus of SEU)

Time: April 7 - June 9, 18:00-20:00 pm

主讲：戴维·莱瑟巴罗 教授

协调人：史永高 教授

助教：李剑辉 硕士、严凡辉 硕士

上课地点：亚洲建筑档案中心（东南大学四牌楼校区）

上课时间：4月7日-6月9日，18:00-20:00

L. Kahn and I. Noguchi

路易斯·康与野口勇

  Course Description |课程描述 

Architects tend to have a high estimation of architecture’s standing among the several design professions and creative disciplines. Current figures such as David Adjaye have repeated the old idea that architecture is the mother of the arts. A century and a half ago Frank Lloyd Wright made the same claim: architecture is ‘the mother art. Without an architecture of our own our civilization has no soul.’ One suspects that people outside the field would agree to a high rank, if pressed for an evaluation. Thus, it is hardly surprising that architects have traditionally conferred subordinate standing on similar arts, landscape architecture and urbanism, for example, because their professional history is much shorter than that of architecture, and their bodies of theory correspondingly slighter. Likewise for painting and sculpture.

建筑师往往倾向于高估建筑学在众多设计专业和创意学科中的地位。当代建筑师大卫·阿贾耶就重申了建筑是艺术之母这一古老观念。一个半世纪前，赖特也曾提出同样的论断，认为建筑是“孕育一切的艺术。没有我们自己的建筑，我们的文明就没有灵魂。”但如果问下非建筑专业人士，他们或许根本不认为建筑学高人一等。尽管如此，鉴于景观学与城市规划学的专业发展历程远不及建筑学那般源远流长，其理论建构也相应较为单薄（绘画和雕塑学科亦复如是），建筑师们长期以来仍将这些学科置于建筑学的从属地位，这也显得似乎顺理成章。

But shouldn’t we recognize that matters seem to be changing these days?Today, many in and outside architecture maintain that the traditional subordination of related arts is no longer acceptable. The emergence of landscape urbanism, for example, suggests that urban design is a field with equivalent standing to architecture—not subordinate but sibling. Recent arguments for urban-landscape ecology suggest that thinking about landscape (in its several senses) will enable architects and planners to reconceive the nature and task of designing buildings and cities, as if the whole of which buildings are part is territorial, environmental, or topographical; neither only nor essentially architectural. Where would early 20th century architecture be without 20th century painting? Frank Gehry’s buildings are widely discussed as sculptural.

但我们难道不该意识到，当下的情况已经发生了显著变化？如今，无论是建筑业外还是业内人士，许多都已不再认同建筑学长期以来所“享受”的统领地位。例如，景观都市主义的出现便表明，城市设计是一个与建筑学具有同等地位的领域——并非从属，而是与建筑学并列；近年来关于城市景观生态的讨论则表明，对景观（在其多重意义上）的思考将有助于建筑师和规划师重新认识建筑设计与城市设计的性质与任务——仿佛建筑及其所属的环境整体都是地域的、环境的或地形学的，它们既非纯粹建筑的，也非本质上属于建筑的。试问，如果没有20世纪绘画的发展，20世纪早期的建筑将会呈现出何种面貌？事实上，弗兰克·盖里的建筑作品如今已被广泛视为雕塑艺术。

This course proposes to reconsider the ranking and division of the disciplines, not so much to rearrange them, but to think again about what is and is not properly architectural. Key topics will be the idea ofthe image in the different arts, the roles ofcraft and method, and modes ofexpression and communication in the various arts.

本课程旨在重新审视各学科之间的划分及其传统意义上的层级关系，其目的并非重新排列学科顺序，而是重新思考建筑的本质范畴，明确哪些内容属于建筑的核心，哪些则不属于。课程的关键议题包括：不同艺术形式中关于图像的观念（观念层面）、工艺与方法的角色（制作层面），以及表现与交流的方式（表现层面）。

Schedule |日程安排  

Time: 18:00-20:00

Venue: Asian Architectural Archive Center

时间：18:00-20:00

地点：亚洲建筑档案中心

Lecture 1: Thinking Eyes (Michelangelo)

April 7, Monday

讲座1：思考的眼睛（米开朗基罗）

4月7日，星期一

Lecture 2: Manual and Machine Vision (Frank Gehry)

April 14, Monday

讲座2：手工与机械的视野（弗兰克·盖里）

4月14日，星期一

Lecture 3: Picturing Depth (Le Corbusier)

April 21, Monday

讲座3：描绘深度（勒·柯布西耶）

4月21日，星期一

Lecture 4: Involvement and Invention (Tod Williams & Billie Tsien)

April 25, Friday

讲座4：参与与发明（托德·威廉姆斯与比莉·钱）

4月25日，星期五

Lecture 5: Manual Vision (Eric Parry)

May 23, Friday

讲座5：手工的视野（埃里克·帕里）

5月23日，星期五

Lecture 6: Relief from Nature (Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert)

May 30, Friday

讲座6：从自然中浮现（约根·博与维尔赫尔姆·沃尔赫特）

5月30日，星期五

Lecture 7: Is Landscape Architecture (Richard Neutra and Garrett Eckbo)

June 2, Monday

讲座7：景观是建筑吗？（理查德·诺伊特拉与加勒特·埃克博）

6月2日，星期一

Lecture 8: Genius Loci (English Gardens)

June 6, Friday

讲座8：场所精神（英国花园）

6月6日，星期五

Lecture 9: Expanded Fields (Peter Latz and Isamu Noguchi)

June 9, Monday

讲座9：拓展的领域（彼得·拉特兹与野口勇）

6月9日，星期一

Instructor |主讲教师

Professor David Leatherbarrow is a scholar and professor in the theory and history of architecture, with specific emphasis on their contribution to architectural design. He teaches in the Internationalization Demonstration School of Architecture, Southeast University. Since 1984 he has also been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Within history, theory, and design, he is known internationally for his contributions to ideas and historical developments of architectural design, gardens and landscapes, and, most recently, on the impact of contemporary technology on architecture. All of David Leatherbarrow’s work in scholarship examines two essential problems or topics in architectural design: the architectural site (landscape or urban) and architectural construction. These two topics are unavoidably commonplace in contemporary design practice. They are also in need of reconsideration, in light of changes in contemporary culture and society. To date David Leatherbarrow has published 12 scholarly books and over one hundred and twenty scholarly articles. In addition to his scholarship, Leatherbarrow is highly respected internationally as an educator, having won numerous awards for his teaching, the most recent of which is the 2020 Topaz Medallion awarded by AIA/ACSA, the highest honor given to an educator in architecture.

莱瑟巴罗教授是世界著名的建筑历史与理论家，他的历史与理论研究尤为强调它们对设计的贡献。莱瑟巴罗教授现任教于东南大学建筑国际化示范学院，自1984年起也在宾夕法尼亚大学任教。在历史、理论、设计领域，他的学术声誉源自他在建筑设计、园林与景观的观念与历史发展方面做出的贡献，以及近年来他在当代技术进展对建筑学影响方面的研究。他的所有著作都集中探讨建筑学科的两个基本问题：建筑场所（景观或城市）和建筑建造。它们既是建筑实践中的两个基本问题，也是今天需要予以关注并重新思考的重要领域。迄今莱瑟巴罗教授共出版了12部学术著作和120多篇学术文章。在学术研究以外，莱瑟巴罗教授还是国际知名的教育家，曾获多个教育奖项，最近的奖项包括全美建筑教育最高奖“2020年度黄玉奖章”。