The publication of Barnabas Calder’s Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency is significant. There are probably no more than a dozen key textbooks in circulation in universities today that provide a synoptic introduction to architectural history. Attempting to write a new primer in architectural history, especially one that can be referred to both in history classes and in other parts of the curriculum, is a daunting endeavour. For its broad applicability and accessibility, Calder’s book is arguably the most important new contribution to the field of architectural history in decades. It arrives at a moment of profound anthropocentric reflection: after the explosions of outrage voiced through the Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter movements, the Eurocentrism and structural racism of institutions around the world has now been undeniably foregrounded. With environmental disasters unfolding on every continent, the demands of Architects Declare and Architecture Education Declares place new pressures on our discipline (both in education and in practice) to radically change the way in which we value materials, buildings, and energy. To understand the significance of this book, we should consider the problematic character of teaching architectural history as part of an architecture education. The signature pedagogy of architecture education is the design studio, but a problematic consequence of the pre-eminence of the design studio in architecture education is keenly felt in those parts of the curriculum that are not a part of it. If half of the curriculum is expected to be design studio (and the Royal Institute of British Architects requires validated courses to allocate 50% of credits to ‘design studio’), then the teaching of structures, technology, environment, theory and history, urban planning, and professional studies has to fit in the other half. At its best moments, the design studio offers students an

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建筑：从史前到气候紧急情况

Barnabas Calder 的《建筑：从史前史到气候紧急情况》的出版意义重大。今天在大学中流通的主要教科书可能不超过十二本，它们提供了对建筑史的概要介绍。尝试写一本新的建筑史入门书，尤其是可以在历史课和课程的其他部分中引用的入门书，是一项艰巨的工作。由于其广泛的适用性和可访问性，考尔德的书可以说是几十年来对建筑史领域最重要的新贡献。它到达了一个深刻的以人类为中心的反思时刻：在罗德斯必须堕落和黑人的命也是命运动中爆发的愤怒之后，世界各地机构的欧洲中心主义和结构性种族主义现在已无可否认地受到重视。随着环境灾难在各大洲上演，建筑师宣言和建筑教育宣言的要求给我们的学科（在教育和实践中）带来了新的压力，以从根本上改变我们重视材料、建筑和能源的方式。为了理解这本书的意义，我们应该考虑将建筑史教学作为建筑教育的一部分的问题特征。建筑教育的标志性教学法是设计工作室，但是在那些不属于它的课程部分中，人们敏锐地感受到了设计工作室在建筑教育中的卓越地位的问题后果。如果一半的课程预计是设计工作室（英国皇家建筑师学会要求经过验证的课程将 50% 的学分分配给“设计工作室”），那么结构、技术、环境、理论和历史的教学，城市规划和专业研究必须适合另一半。在最好的时刻，设计工作室为学生提供