为地球的生命与美丽而战
The battle for the life and beauty of the earth
Christopher Alexander · 初版 2012 年
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Christopher Alexander写道，所有建筑的目的都在于鼓励和支持赋予生命活力的活动、梦想与游乐趣味。但在近几十年里，尽管我们的建筑在技术上更加完善——更加坚固、更加防水、更加节能——它们却也变得越来越单调乏味，极少能提供一种让人在情感上获得滋养、真正感到快乐和内心充实的环境。Christopher Alexander及其合作者以他在日本建造Eishin Campus为例，揭示了两种从根本上不同的……
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……整个心血。这是一本对人与人之间关系有着深刻洞见的书。我也非常赞成把他的其他作品一起读了。如果只选一本书与《Pattern》搭配，我会选《The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》，因为它最清晰地展现了将 Alexander 的思想付诸现实世界的过程，以及如何克服那些强加丑陋和财务困境的扭曲激励。我曾就此做过一场演讲……
…whole effort. It is a deeply insightful book into the way humans relate to each other. I do second the recommendation to read the other works as well. If pairing one book with Pattern, I would choose The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth because it most clearly portrays the process of taking Alexander’s thinking into the real world and overcoming its perverse incentives to impose ugliness and financial difficulty. I gave a talk for a…
我读了《Notes on the Synthesis of Form》，非常喜欢。接着读了《A Pattern Language》……卧槽绝了（damn son）。最近我又买了《The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》。刚翻开前两页我就彻底入坑了。不过平心而论，这是因为我觉得我俩英雄所见略同，我根本挑不出他的毛病……但我其实觉得这不太好。
I read Notes on the Synthesis of Form and I loved it. Then I read A Pattern Language... damn son. I recently bought The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth. Within the first 2 pages I was already hooked. But in fairness, It's because I think we are two minds alike so I hardly disagree with him... which I think it's bad.
听起来你可能会想读读《Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》。如果你想深入探究，他的代表作（magnum opus）是《Nature of Order》。简直超凡脱俗。
It sounds like you might want to read "Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth". If you want to go deep his magnus opus is "Nature of Order". It's transcendent.
……《Phenomenon of Life》正是你要找的。往前追溯，《The Timeless Way of Building》和《A Pattern Language》展现了《The Nature of Order》系列的源头。要看近期的案例研究，可以看《The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》。我还推荐看看 Salingaros 和 Mehaffy 的作品，比如《Design for a Living Planet》、《Principles of Urban Structure》和《Unified Architecture Theory》。
…Phenomenon of Life is what you’re looking for. Going back in time, The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language show the roots of The Nature of Order series. To look at a recent case study, The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth. I also recommend looking at works by Salingaros and Mehaffy like Design for a Living Planet, Principles of Urban Structure, and Unified Architecture Theory.
在我看来恰恰相反。大多数建筑学都是规范主导的，对 Alexander 这种因地制宜、基于实际使用的设计几乎毫无容忍度。如果他在《The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》里讲述的故事是真的，那他偏好使用简单材料、让预算来约束设计的做法，就让他成了那些利用标准来为超支开脱的建筑公司的死敌。你怎么看这个……
This seems opposite to me. Most architecture is prescriptive and there is little tolerance for Alexander's circumstantial and use-based design. If the story he recounts in The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth is true, his preference to use simple materials and let the budget constrain the design makes him an enemy of building firms which use standards to justify cost overruns. What did you think about that…
在这个页面创建之后，他还出版了《The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth》（如果是我漏看了引用请见谅）。讲的是一个更成功的项目——一所日本的大学校园。他遇到的种种困难非常有看头，特别是来自官僚主义的……
He also published The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth after this page was made (apologies if I overlooked the reference.) It’s about a more successful project, a Japanese college campus. The difficulties he faced were very interesting, especially from bureaucratic…