1. How can we face changing?
2. V and Modern
3. What is the Value?
4. The Concept of Time/Media in VA
5. Level of Meaning (Value)
5.1. Low Level
5.2. Middle Level
5.3. High Level
5.4. Indigenous Issue
5.5. Non-space
5.6. Relations between 1 2 3
6. 1. VA as a Continuing Process
6.1. Changing & Adaptation
6.1.1. Response towards Environmental Limits
6.1.2. Authenticity
6.2. Traditional Expertise Engagement
6.2.1. Localized Craftmanship
6.3. Space & Time
6.4. Original: Particular Time, Location & Group of People
7. 2. People, Culture
7.1. Relationship & Media
7.2. Three Levels of Meaning
7.2.1. Low: Everyday need & Instrumental/functional
7.2.2. Middle: Community & Identity & Power, Status, Wealth
7.2.3. High: Cosmos, World, Philosophy, Human - Nature
7.3. Boundry or Relations of Levels Meaning
7.3.1. Changing - Transformation - Vanish
7.3.2. Time
7.3.3. Human Engagement
7.4. Indentity
7.5. T. S. Eliot
7.5.1. Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it, you must obtain it by great labour
8. Short Terms
8.1. VA: Vernacular Architecture
8.2. V: Vernacular
9. 3. Climate
9.1. VA as Response & Relfection
9.1.1. Basic Need (Shelter)
9.1.2. Typology in Cifferent Regions
9.1.3. Materiality
9.1.4. Cultural Context
9.1.5. Geographic Conditions
9.1.6. Sharing Forms
9.1.6.1. Japanese Shoji - Paper Windows
9.1.6.1.1. Recycles - Conserve - Relation with Nature
10. 4. Materials, Construction
10.1. Cultural
10.1.1. Globalization - Regionalism
10.1.2. Scales of Design
10.2. Spiritual
10.2.1. Belief of Nature - Communication - Transmigration
10.3. Materiality
10.3.1. Natural or Manufactured? (production process or chemical process)
10.3.2. Bricks - Manufactured
11. 5. V Landscapes
11.1. Public - Private (Property)
11.2. Urban - Rural (Context)
11.3. Sense of Place (Intellectual Meaning & Quality)
11.4. Man-made - Natural
11.4.1. Criteria & Transformation (existence)
11.4.2. Natural elements to Farmland or Garden (Non-professional Transformation)
11.4.3. Unit: Single - Group - Community - Society
11.5. Fengshui
11.5.1. Concept of Site Planning, Orientation and Scale
11.6. Time - Space
12. 6. Rural V
12.1. Why do we study Rural V?
12.1.1. Origin
12.2. Vernacular Setting and Its Relationship with Nature
12.3. Ideas for Urban Environment
12.4. Conservation of Traditions
12.4.1. Time
12.4.2. Returned Generations
12.5. Urbanization Forces and Changing
12.5.1. Better Life - Modern Life
12.5.2. Rapid Change - Population
12.5.3. Source of Wealth and Trigger
12.6. Context in Different Countries
12.7. self-conscious or un-
12.7.1. Christopher Alexander (1965) and Amos Rapaport (1969) argues that vernacular built-form is the most obvious and direct means of expression of a people and its culture, without having to go through a self-conscious process of thinking. C. Norberg-Schulz (1975) thinks otherwise. Is the vernacular process a self-conscious or an unself-conscious one?
13. 7. Urban V
13.1. Difference Between Urban & Rural
13.1.1. What is city?
13.2. Colonialism
13.2.1. Culture - Economy & Politics
13.2.2. Building Typology - Localization
13.2.2.1. Materials
13.2.2.2. Climate
13.2.3. Identity
13.2.3.1. Changing - History & Future
13.2.4. Hong Kong Context
13.2.5. Other Asian Country
13.3. Urbanization - Transformation
13.3.1. Rapic Process & Adaptation
13.3.2. Migration from Rural to Urban
13.4. Concentration of Population - Sources
13.4.1. Advantages
13.4.2. Disadbantages
13.5. Communication Way Comparing in Village - Community Life to Numbers
13.6. Trourists
13.6.1. Contributions & Forces
13.6.2. Shop Houses
13.7. City as a Cultural Milieu
13.7.1. Hierachy System
13.7.2. The Reflection of Cultural Diversity
13.7.2.1. People
13.7.3. Three Levels of Meaning
13.7.3.1. The expression of Meaning
13.7.4. Multiple Layers of Culture
13.7.4.1. Representation
13.7.5. Tangible & Intangible
13.7.6. Urban Deversity
14. 8. Informal Settlements
14.1. Formal & Informal
14.1.1. Process - Individual Choice/Development
14.1.2. Desire and Status
14.2. Informal Settlement
14.2.1. Informal Materials
14.2.2. Reason: War, Migration, Rapid Economy Develpment
14.2.3. Life Styles
14.2.4. Social Concerns
14.2.5. Piecemeal Fashion
14.2.6. Problem: Infrastructure, Safety, Health, Education, Property
14.2.7. Community - Business - Respect
14.2.8. Ownership Issue: Renting
14.2.9. Regulation and Legal Control
14.3. Location
14.3.1. Village
14.3.2. Urban Outskirt
14.3.3. Urban Village
14.3.4. Street - Deadend
14.3.5. Rooftop
14.3.6. Boat
14.3.7. River
15. 9. Architectural Conservation of Built V Heritage
15.1. Preservation & Conservation
15.1.1. Differences
15.2. Role of Architecture: As Medium
15.3. Activities and Alternative Activites
15.4. Continuity of Story - Sense and Existence of Place
15.5. Heritage/Relic to Live Place - New Community (Regeneration - Reactivate)
15.6. Multiple Disciplinary Engagement - Public Engagement
15.6.1. Hong Kong Context
15.7. Tangible and Intangible Value - Sustainability
15.8. Architectural/Cultural Value & Economical Value
15.9. Level of Meanings
16. 10. The Future of Asia's VA
16.1. Aspects of Sustainability
16.2. Identity: Single - Local - Regional - National
16.3. Cultural Sustainablity
16.4. Tradition (Process - Production)
16.4.1. on-going