Gropius将这本书称为一本带插图的现代建筑指南，以Bauhausbücher系列为开篇。他在这本书中概述了20世纪20年代中期的国际建筑。作者写的序言简要但详细地探讨了联合所有国家先锋派的指导原则。这个说明之后跟着的是一个含有大量插图的部分，展示了世界各地的建筑范例。根据Gropius的说法，这些插图见证了一种始终如一的世界观的发展过程，这种世界观处理了建筑师原来的角色，并用一种新的形状语言表达自己。Bauhausbücher**册的**次英文翻译可以拓宽读者对德国建筑史的看法，通过将包豪斯的成就置于国际背景下以及用一种说明性的方式记录和描述其改革的哲学。

In what he called his illustrated guide to modern architecture, which starts off the Bauhausbücher series, Gropius gives an overview of the international architecture of the mid-1920s. A preface by the author explores, briefly but in detail, the guiding principles that unite the avant-garde in all countries. This statement is followed by an extensive illustrated section showing examples of architecture from around the world. According to Gropius, these illustrations bear witness to the development of a consistent worldview that disposes of the prior role of the architect and expresses itself in a new language of shapes. This first English translation of Volume 1 of the Bauhausbücher allows the reader to broaden his or her view of German architectural history by placing the achievements of the Bauhaus in an international context and by documenting and capturing its philosophy of reform in an illustrative way. It appears in original design and with separate commentary.

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