这是一本挑战传统建筑的典范书，通过新颖的分类法，把很多看视完全不同类型的项目分成几个章节，体现出21世纪建筑的复杂策略，并通过文字来帮助形成概念化的建筑理念。事实证明这是可以做到的，唐·阿尔贝主张用全新的心态来看这些项目并提出实践、设计和设计思想中循环的必要性。除介绍之外，由尼克科泽尔博士撰写的文章进一步介绍了各个项目的突出特点。《优秀空间设计》中的图纸、效果图和图片，都是精心挑选出来的最新、最优秀、最具有创新理念的作品集。

This monography challenges the restrained tradition of a typical architectural publication. Seemingly disparate projects are grouped into chapters according to an original taxonomy in order to reveal the working methods and strategies relating to some of the more complex roles that architecture plays in the twentieth first century- a taxonomy that might help shift architectural thinking in developing contexts from normative to more conceptual territory. Proving that it can be done, Don Albert advocates a position of NOT KNOWING that embraces playful research and enables a fresh start with each new project.This publication speaks to the necessity to have cycles of reflectivity and production in practice, design and design thinking.In addition to the introduction,a further essay by Nic Coetzer,Ph.D,champions the special place that metaphor has in the extraordinarily diverse output of this firm. Sound Space Design operates as a resource through the careful selection of drawings,renderings and photographs that illustrate the firm’s most beautiful and inspiring work to date.

A View from the Mamba Slide:Sean O'Toole

Getting Inside You:Nic Coetzer

Not Knowing:Don Albert

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Getting Out of Ourselves: Nic Coetzer

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