编者的话:让我们把眼光放远,在百年甚至千年的视域里看看我们的建筑,我们的城市,我们的生态环境和我们的生活方式,也许我们会突然发现困扰和纠结我们当代的主要矛盾几乎是微不足道的。在更长的时间轴上我们所面对的问题是所谓的“墨菲定律”这个哲学问题的挑战,换句话说就是“可能发生的事一定会发生”。本期我们推荐的三篇文章中只有一篇是建筑师给出的,涉及到技术层面的问题。而其他的两篇分别是社会学和历史学的学者以及生态学者做出的预测。这些预言或许可以被看做是 Editor’s Note: Let’s take a long view and look at our architecture, our city, our eco-environment and our way of life in a century or even a thousand years. Perhaps we will suddenly find ourselves bewildering and tangled in our contemporary major Contradiction is almost negligible. The problem we face on a much longer timeline is the challenge of the philosophical problem called “Murphy’s Law,” in other words, “something that can happen is bound to happen.” Only one of the three articles we recommend in this installment is given by the architects and involves technical issues. The other two are the predictions made by scholars in sociology and history and by ecologists. These predictions may be seen as yes