It's only been in the last five or six years that books on architecture have become popular in the marketplace. Before that such publications were only used in colleges and institutes. Nowadays such high-end textbooks have invaded the average home and become symbols of good taste in middle-class and intellectual families.
建築書是近五、六年才在書市興起的書種，在這之前，只有學院裡才用得上，現在精緻化了的教科書「飛入尋常百姓家」，成為中產階級與知識份子的一種品味表徵。