Architectural Design and Regulation 建筑设计与法规

从建筑和建筑的最早阶段开始，建筑师的行动就受到规则，法规，标准和治理实践的制约。这些范围从试图影响定居模式的正式结构的社会文化和宗教法规到规定与建筑结构安全有关的详细设计元素的规定性建筑法规。在《建筑设计与规范》中，作者认为，建筑的规则和监管基础是设计和开发过程中社会制度和政治干预措施的更广泛领域的一部分，这些活动用于界定和定义建筑师的活动范围。 。
该书探讨了建筑师的实践如何嵌入到复杂的规章制度中。作者逐渐认识到，建筑形式和性能的规则和规定不应被视为创造性过程和实践的外在因素，而应被视为设计良好的场所的组成部分。建筑设计和法规的贡献在于表明，建筑的规则和法规基础并没有破坏建筑师的设计能力，它们是新的挑战性活动的基础，这些活动为重塑建筑师的行为开辟了可能性。
From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects’ actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors argue that the rule and regulatory basis of architecture is part of a broader field of socio-institutional and political interventions in the design and development process that serve to delimit, and define, the scope of the activities of architects.
The book explores how the practices of architects are embedded in complex systems of rules and regulations. The authors develop the understanding that the rules and regulations of building form and performance ought not to be counterpoised as external to creative processes and practices, but as integral to the creation of well-designed places. The contribution of Architectural Design and Regulation is to show that far from the rule and regulatory basis of architecture undermining the capacities of architects to design, they are the basis for new and challenging activities that open up possibilities for reinventing the actions of architects.