三十年前,当我还是一个年轻的建筑系学生时,非常幸运的结识了阿尔多·罗西,当时他正在撰写《一部科学的自传》——在我看来他一生中最好的作品。我这么说不是因为这本书清晰的内容,而是罗西那股远渡重洋到美国书写的意志力。罗西的第一本书《城市建筑学》,是他青年时代的巅峰之作——严肃、缜密、条理清晰地阐述了原则性问题,从而奠定了他在专业界和知识界的威望;而《自传》则是他的中年之作,与那部青年时代的煌煌巨著相比,《自传》中充满了渴望、梦幻和探索,让人重新认识那个作为理性主义类型学家的罗西,也让他远远超越了同时代那些缺乏想象力的同行。王维仁的作品带给我一种类似的震撼。 Thirty years ago, when I was a young architectural student, I got lucky to meet Aldo Rossi, who was writing “A Scientific Autobiography” - and in my opinion, the best of his life works. I say this not because of the clear content of this book, but because of the willpower of the Rochesian Ocean to write in the United States. Rossi’s first book, “Urban Architecture,” is the pinnacle of his youth - setting out his prestige in the professional and intellectual circles in a serious, meticulous and well-organized fashion, “Autobiography” is his middle age work. Compared with the magnificent Huang Zhuang in his youth, his “autobiography” is full of longing, fantasy and exploration, giving people the opportunity to re-understand Rossi, a rationalistic typologist. Let him far beyond the contemporaries of those who lack the imagination of peers. Wang Wei Ren’s work gives me a similar shock.