我的前书《城镇和房屋》(Towns and Bui Idings)问世时,博学的美国建筑史学家J·萨姆森指出:序言内应写上书是为谁而著,以此来提醒读者,以免当他们发觉所读的书实际上很粗浅时失望、生气。为此,我急于申明我竭尽全力用一种即便是有志趣的少年也会理解的方法来写本书。这并不因为我期待有很多少年读者。但是,如果十四岁的 When my first book, Towns and Bui Idings, came out, learned American architectural historian J. Samson pointed out: Who should write a book in the preface to remind readers that when they I was disappointed when I read the book I was reading. For this reason, I was eager to affirm that I did my best to write the book in a way that would be understood even by an aspiring boy. This is not because I expect many young readers. But if fourteen years old