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《世界建筑》的读者朋友，

本期的《世界建筑》再次聚焦于文革以后的中国当代建筑师个体。

30余年的改革开放在中国的当代建筑界造就了一种有趣的双群体结构，按照曾经的称呼方法，一个群体被称为“体制内建筑师”，一个群体被称为“体制外建筑师”。过去一般认为，“体制内建筑师”为我国的城市化进程承担了更重大的责任，“体制外建筑师”为我国的当代建筑吸引了更多的西方关注。显然，这种二分法的结构与观点在当代中国建筑的发展进程中都正变得越来越过时。

李晓东教授就是一位无法纳入这一二分法结构的建筑师：他在清华大学的全职教席决定了他的毋庸置疑的“体制内”身份，而他的完全自主化的（甚至有时连业主都不需要的）实践却宣称了他的不折不扣的“体制外”习性。他是当代中国建筑界完全以好奇心引领个人探索的“独行者”之一。

然而，我们今天对李晓东教授的建筑实践感兴趣，并不因为他是一位“独行者”，也不因为他所获得的一连串令人印象深刻的国际大奖，甚至不因为他的游走于规范与惯例之外的建成作品本身，而是他的建筑观点——建造主体对所在自然局部的有意识反省。事实上，我们更愿把李晓东教授为数并不众多的作品看成是以建造的方式表达的观点而不是建筑，是对人栖居于自然的方式的精神研讨而不是物质解答。

李晓东教授可能不是一位典型的中国当代建筑师，但他的实践却是中国当代建筑走向更加包容的多元化、更加鲜明的个性化的典型个例。

张利

《世界建筑》主编（2013-）

清华大学建筑学院教授

Dear Reader,

In this issue of World Architecture,we focus again on an individual in contemporary Chinese Architecture.

Three decades of open-up policy and economic development has created a unique bi-party structure in Chinese architecture According to the once popular notion,one party is called "the institutionalized architects",the other "the un-institutionalized architects" The cliché used to be that it is "the institutionalized" that were taking most responsibilities for Chinese urbanization and it is "the un-institutionalized" that were catching the eyes of the westerners Nowadays,with the changing terrain of Chinese architecture,both the bi-party structure and the role models associated with it seem to be getting outdated.

LI Xiaodong is someone that doesn't fit into this bi-party structure His fulltime professorship in Tsinghua defines his "institutionalized" identity His incredibly autonomous (so autonomous that sometimes there is even no client at all) practice discloses his "un-institutionalized" persona He is one of the mavericks in contemporary Chinese architecture whose adventure is led entirely by curiosity.

Yet it is not the maverick character that makes us so interested in LI Xiaodong's practice,nor the impressive list of the big international trophies he has claimed,nor his buildings that eludes common regulations and norms It is his architecture idea,the self-conscious self-reflection on the local natural context,that makes us so In fact,we'd rather regard the handful of built works by LI Xiaodong as built arguments than buildings They are more spiritual inquiries on the question of human dwelling in nature than material answers.

LI Xiaodong may not be a typical contemporary Chinese architect But his personal quest renders a typical example of the inclusiveness and individualism of contemporary Chinese architecture

Li (Brian) Zhang

Editor-in-Chief (2013-),World Architecture

Professor of Architecture,School of Architecture,Tsinghua University