Langham house close is the sort of place often passed without a second look. A cluster of low apartment blocks of sandy brick and exposed concrete slabs, it is tucked behind(藏在……后面) a much grander Georgian mansion which gives it its name. But to the informed visitor(有见识的访客), brought by their paper walking guide book to the suburb of Ham in south-west London, it reveals architectural genius. “Note the jutting(突出的) concrete ‘gargoyles’, inspired by Le Corbusier’s Maison Jaoul(勒·柯布西耶的雅乌尔住宅),” the guide instructs, of the at-first-glance(乍一看) unremarkable gutter spouts. This was an early work of James Stirling and James Gowan, who would become stars of post-war architecture. Finished in 1958, its style became known as “new brutalism(新粗野主义)” and inspired a generation of British housing.
兰厄姆宅邸巷是那种常常被人一眼掠过的地方。一片低矮的公寓楼群，沙色砖墙配裸露混凝土板，藏在一座更为宏伟的乔治亚风格宅邸后面——它也因此得名。但对于那些手持纸质步行导览手册来到伦敦西南部汉姆郊区的知情访客而言，这里却展现出建筑天才的光芒。“注意那些突出的混凝土‘滴水兽’，灵感来自勒·柯布西耶的雅乌尔住宅，”导览手册这样指导人们观察那些乍看之下毫不起眼的檐槽喷口。这是詹姆斯·斯特林和詹姆斯·高恩的早期作品，两人后来成为战后建筑界的明星。该建筑于1958年完工，其风格后来被称为“新粗野主义”，并启发了整整一代英国住宅建筑。
Finding the poetry in buildings for years dismissed as(被斥为) totalitarian(极权主义的), or plain ugly(纯粹丑陋), is the work of “Perambulations”, a series of walking tours of modernist homes. Their quiet success(悄然成功) reflects a wider rehabilitation(重新评价、复兴) of ideas about architecture found across the rich world in the decades after the second world war. “Perambulations” started as a pandemic project of Stefi Orazi, a graphic designer, who logged(记录) her daily walks around north London’s modernist houses on social media. Set to two sides of paper, a first print run(印刷量、印次) quickly sold out. The series is now on its 30th issue, with more than 40,000 copies sold.
在被多年斥为极权主义或纯粹丑陋的建筑中寻找诗意，这正是“Perambulations”系列现代主义住宅步行导览所做的工作。它们的悄然成功，反映了二战后几十年间富裕世界对建筑理念的更广泛重新评价。“Perambulations”最初是平面设计师斯特菲·奥拉齐在疫情期间的一个项目，她在社交媒体上记录自己每天在伦敦北部现代主义住宅区的散步。印成双面纸的第一版很快售罄。该系列现已出版第30期，销量超过4万册。
Her typical self-guided tour takes in(涵盖、包括) a couple of dozen(几十个) properties, mostly in London but also Cambridge, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Some stops are famous, now found on tea towels and posters. They include the Trellick Tower (in guide number 9), a brutalist monolith(粗野主义巨石建筑) in west London designed by Erno Goldfinger. Ian Fleming, an author, so disliked the family home he built in Willow Road, Hampstead (guide no 2), that he immortalised(使不朽、使永存) the architect as the villain of a James Bond novel.
她典型的自助导览涵盖几十处房产，大部分在伦敦，但也包括剑桥、柏林、布鲁塞尔和巴黎。有些站点如今已名声在外，出现在茶巾和海报上。其中包括特雷利克塔（第9号导览），这是由埃尔诺·戈德芬格设计的西伦敦粗野主义巨石建筑。作家伊恩·弗莱明非常厌恶戈德芬格在汉普斯特德柳树路建造的家庭住宅（第2号导览），以至于将这位建筑师永久地塑造成了詹姆斯·邦德小说中的反派。
The pleasure of perambulation
漫步的乐趣
