Mass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic

How has the impetus to standardise diverged and interacted with the impulse to customise over time? Architect and architectural historian Martin Bressani , who is Professor and Director at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, describes how until the late Medieval period the fabric of Western towns remained highly customised. This was a situation that was only overturned with the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the desire to create ceremonial backdrops, which demonstrated ‘classical regularity’ on a grand scale. The path towards standardisation and Modernism, though, remained in no way linear; Modernism being at least in part a response to the monumental, but overtly bourgeois ornamental forms of Baron Hausmann's Second Empire Paris.     

D418氨基膦酸螯合树脂吸附铥镱镥混合稀土离子的机理研究

通过饱和容量法、等摩尔系列法、斜率法确定了氨基膦酸树脂吸附铥、镱、镥混合稀土离子时所形成的配合物的配位比为1.5∶1,吸附过程既有单分子螯合配位,也有双分子螯合。通过红外光谱初步分析判断,氨基膦酸螯合树脂功能基中的氮、氧原子与稀土配位成键,形成了配位化合物。     

The Reluctant Architect: An Interview with Wang Shu of Amateur Architects Studio

On the announcement of the awarding of the Pritzker Prize to the first Chinese architect, Wang Shu, in May 2012, jury chair Lord Palumbo commended him for an architecture that is ‘timeless, deeply rooted in its context and yet universal’. Visiting Wang and his work in the ancient city of Hangzhou in Eastern China, shortly afterwards Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren sought to understand why Wang might have succeeded where other architects have failed in a Chinese and international context, forging an innovative approach to architecture, which is in tune with tradition while being of a ‘genuine and often sublime originality’.     

鲁迅与傅雷翻译思想之比较

鲁迅和傅雷在翻译上都提出了独到的见解。鲁迅先生的“易解、丰姿”标准从根本上解决了翻译界长期存在的是竭力使外国作品“归化”,还是尽量保持洋味的问题。傅雷先生的“神似”说,成为中国翻译思想是上继严复“信达雅”说之后树起的又一面具有划时代意义的光辉旗帜。     

黄山鲁森林公园白水湖景区及山顶景观工程规划

黄山鲁森林公园位于南沙区的中心城区（小南沙）内,是南沙区中心城区的生态绿色核心,是都市中珍贵的绿色资源。整个公园占地约1200多公顷,主峰海拔295 m是广州南部地区的最高峰,是广州地区最大的开放式森林公园。     

Grain size effect on deformation twinning in Mg–Al–Zn alloy

Abstract

Specimens of Mg–3Al–1Zn alloy with a wide range of grain size distribution were compressed along different directions. The compressed microstructure was examined to clarify the grain size effect on deformation twinning in magnesium alloys. Small strains were used to reveal the twinning behaviour. The results show that the grain size affects the formation of deformation twins in an Mg–Al–Zn alloy. The reason for a different result being previously reported is given. This study also reports the different deformation microstructures in specimens compressed along different directions.     

Contemporary architecture in China compiled

Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren, authors of Building Shanghai (Wiley-Academy 2006), a narrative history of Shanghai's architectural development, review two new books on China that focus solely on its 21st-century resurgence. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.