The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture and Urbanization

This book gathers writings by Swedish American architect Lars Lerup, in which he sharply observes and analyzes the urban environment around him, then applies those findings to develop innovative theories about the modern city. Though the fourteen essays in the book were written as standalone pieces, together they cohere into a larger project that surveys Lerup's thinking about identity, monumentality, and the relationship between nature and culture. He considers influential modern landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, the "dancing floors" of Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library, Herzog & de Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach, the character of urban icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au's Dalian International Conference Center, and much more.

這本書收集了瑞典裔美國建築師拉斯·勒魯普的著作，他對他周圍的城市環境進行了敏銳的觀察和分析，然後應用這些發現來發展關於現代城市的創新理論。雖然這本書中的十四篇文章是獨立撰寫的，但它們共同形成了一個更大的項目，概述了勒魯普對身份、紀念性和自然與文化之間關係的思考。他考慮了有影響力的現代景觀設計師羅伯托·布爾·馬克斯，Rem Koolhaas的西雅圖中央圖書館的“跳舞地板”，Herzog & de Meuron在邁阿密海灘的1111林肯路項目，城市標誌性建築如Coop Himmelb(l)au的大連國際會議中心等等。

Lars Lerup holds a teaching and research appointment at Humboldt University's Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques in Berlin and is professor and dean emeritus at Rice Architecture in Houston, and taught for many years at University of California Berkeley.

Lars Lerup在柏林的洪堡大學赫爾曼·馮·赫爾姆霍茲文化技術中心擔任教學和研究職位，並且是休斯頓萊斯建築學院的教授和名譽院長，同時也在加州大學伯克利分校教授多年。