本书由4个中心主题组成，探索了32个建筑概念或策略，这些概念涵盖的范围广泛，包括与建筑无关的话题。这些话题从诸如混乱、功能和记忆等观念转到基本的建筑要素，如墙壁、屋顶、楼梯和服务，再到社会现象，如影响力和尊重，最后以有关审核、优化和节约开支的文章作结尾。本书的目标是为数字时代培养更多考虑周到的建筑师。

为了说明空间概念（从小地方到城市），每一个主题都配有照片、设计图和作者专门画的插图。书本小巧，图文并茂，是一本学生和年轻的专业人士可以反复翻看的参考源。

nspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, by the rise of new technologies and their associated behaviours, The Architecture Concept Book seeks to stimulate young architects and students to think outside of what is often a rather conservative and self-perpetuating professional domain, and to be influenced by everything around them.

Organized into four central themes, the book explores 32 architectural concepts, or strategies, which cover wide-ranging and not always architecturally centred subjects. These progress from such notions as disorder, function and memory, to basic architectural components such as the wall, roof, stair and services, to social phenomena such as influence and respect, before concluding with texts on reviewing, optimising and economising. The aim is to create more thoughtful architects for the Digital Age.

Each theme is accompanied by photographs, plans, and illustrations specially drawn by the author to explain spatial ideas, from the small-scale to the urban. In a compact format, the words and pictures come together to create a reference source to which students and young professionals will return again and again.

Table of Contents

ASSESS: Wonder • Environment • Disorder • Memory • Function • Form • Irony • Politics
ANALYSE: Walk • Influence • Reclaim • Respect • Obscure • Heroize • Improve • Improvise
ASSEMBLE: Floor • Wall • Structure • Roof • Door • Façade • Stair • Services
AUGMENT: Review • Diagram • Optimize • Economize • Colour • Contrast • Scale • Craft