期刊名称：Enquiry : The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research
印刷版ISSN：2329-9339
出版年度：2014
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：10-19
DOI：10.17831/enq:arcc.v11i1.206
出版社：Architectural Research Centers Consortium
摘要：Observing several advantages of architecture that incorporates an internal courtyard, this paper traces the history of the motif through the evidence of building archetypes and lexical and literary records.Despite the literal centrality of courtyards to so many traditions of urban construction, the motif proves quite weak in contemporary architecture.The article gives several reasons for this decline in popularity and proposes that the very words used to describe courtyards are partly to blame for the poor traction of this adorable feature.In the process of describing the many historical responses to courtyards, the article conducts a phenomenology of this remarkable 'void' in the middle of a building that has so much social presence.
