＂I love suits! One feels so save and kept together in it. Like in an armour!＂ （von Taube, 2008, p. 1）. This remark by designer Tom Ford in a newspaper article a couple of years ago finds expression in the behaviou...＂I love suits! One feels so save and kept together in it. Like in an armour!＂ （von Taube, 2008, p. 1）. This remark by designer Tom Ford in a newspaper article a couple of years ago finds expression in the behaviour of George Falconer （Colin Firth）---the main protagonist in Ford＇s directorial debut A Single Man （2010） which follows the outlines of the landmark 1964 novel of the same title by Christopher Isherwood. In this article the author want to ask questions concerning the different aesthetic potentials of the novel on the one hand and the movie on the other hand. How are the main topics of loss and solitude presented and which relevance has the beauty of the image in these two different staging acts？展开更多
Housing is dynamic. It changes with time. A sample of 60 houses in the Shagari Low Cost housing scheme in Kanra Namoda was studied in order to find out the characteristics of changes made by the users. Physical observ...Housing is dynamic. It changes with time. A sample of 60 houses in the Shagari Low Cost housing scheme in Kanra Namoda was studied in order to find out the characteristics of changes made by the users. Physical observations and questionnaires were used as the major instruments of data collection. The results show that 91% of occupants have made various changes to the original designs without the help of professional designers, and some of the changes have completely transformed the outlook of the houses in locational planning, materials and form. This implies that a post architectural design phase exists, suggesting that the design process can be divided into two phases; the initial design by the architect and the subsequent redesign by the user. The paper presents preliminary findings on the general characteristics of user redesign and concludes that a clear process can be established. The architectural design process can, therefore, be expanded to include the user redesign process in order to reflect the entire lifespan of the building.展开更多
文摘＂I love suits! One feels so save and kept together in it. Like in an armour!＂ （von Taube, 2008, p. 1）. This remark by designer Tom Ford in a newspaper article a couple of years ago finds expression in the behaviour of George Falconer （Colin Firth）---the main protagonist in Ford＇s directorial debut A Single Man （2010） which follows the outlines of the landmark 1964 novel of the same title by Christopher Isherwood. In this article the author want to ask questions concerning the different aesthetic potentials of the novel on the one hand and the movie on the other hand. How are the main topics of loss and solitude presented and which relevance has the beauty of the image in these two different staging acts？
文摘Housing is dynamic. It changes with time. A sample of 60 houses in the Shagari Low Cost housing scheme in Kanra Namoda was studied in order to find out the characteristics of changes made by the users. Physical observations and questionnaires were used as the major instruments of data collection. The results show that 91% of occupants have made various changes to the original designs without the help of professional designers, and some of the changes have completely transformed the outlook of the houses in locational planning, materials and form. This implies that a post architectural design phase exists, suggesting that the design process can be divided into two phases; the initial design by the architect and the subsequent redesign by the user. The paper presents preliminary findings on the general characteristics of user redesign and concludes that a clear process can be established. The architectural design process can, therefore, be expanded to include the user redesign process in order to reflect the entire lifespan of the building.
