《上海新建筑》以此时此地的上海城市景观和当代建筑为明线,以中国建筑在历史与现在、个体与集体、东方与西方、固守与超越的碰撞中的发展演变为暗线,记录和讨论的是快速城市化之后的第一个缓冲期(2013-2018)的上海新建筑。本书尝试在青浦嘉定实践的尾声、大虹桥商务区的快速开发、上海中心的破土而出、外企和国有大院的角逐、新技术的应用、老上海的复兴等建筑群像中,寻找到“当代”和“上海”的坐标,既对过去高歌猛进式的发展进行了回顾和思考,也从这种思考中获取了洞察未来的灵感。

本书共分为四章,其中第一章“实用主义:栖居魔都”:关注曾经被大量忽视的居住建筑,在“背景建筑”中讨论了这座城市现代主义的缘起、碰撞和发展,以及对当下城市景观的“瞬间”塑造。第二章“集群实践:青浦嘉定的尾声”:关注一批本土建筑师的涌现和成长,并借此讨论在全球文明体系中,作者对于“中国性”和“地域性”新的洞察和思考。第三章“全球互动:摩天楼&SOHO”:关注在上海发生的中西方非对称交流,以及在某种“拿来式”学习中发展起来的当下的建筑行业。第四章“流的空间:开发大虹桥”:全书理论部分的高潮,作者大胆地提出了当下建筑学的共同困境及大都市的“流动”本质,探讨了对“流的空间”的研究指向建筑学未来的可能途径。

The book records and analyses new architectures in Shanghai from 2013 to 2018, the buffer period after China’s rapid urbanization. As a critical book about architecture and urban development, it not only reflects on past extensive increase, but also hints future possible direction. The main clue is the course from modern Shanghai to contemporary Shanghai across a fairly long period of time, with Shanghai's urban landscape and contemporary architecture here and now as the open line, and Chinese architecture’s development and evolution in the collision of history and present, individual and collective, east and west, adherence and transcendence as the dark line. The architects discussed varies from local to foreign and the building site referred includes suburban new-towns, historic districts and urban center. Lots of materials are effectively organized into a whole to present critical thinking by the two young authors. This book is informative and rich in content as a dataset also, offering a wonderful new building list for Shanghai architects and enthusiasts.