TurkeyThis study aims at suggesting a new evaluation perspective for the Kano model, which is one of the well-recognised quality-measurement methods in total quality management. The purpose behind this suggestion is to be the first to integrate the Kano model into the cases of architecture to explore architecturaldesign quality, which is difficult to measure because of the flexibility of design and changing userperceptions. Therefore, the study undertakes mass-housing units which are among the unique examples of standardised design quality in architecture. The conventional Kano model, in this respect, already helps understand the perceived quality of the units; however, the suggested manner of evaluation enhances the interpretation of Kano scores by introducing further polarised sub-categories. The new suggestion was also tested with a survey in six different mass-housing cases in Izmir-Turkey in terms of the quality of spatial organisation of the units. Flexibility of interpretation provided by the suggested Kano-reading is revealed with the survey-results comparatively, at the end of the paper.

In current educational practices within the discipline of architecture, the systematic use of conceptualization within the design process has not yet been extensively developed and applied. Though utilizing concepts within the design process has been discussed hitherto by educators and scholars, the conventional education system in architectural design may prevent its proper application in the studio process. Furthermore, because conceptualization describes an activity that has peculiarly visual and verbal dimensions, the coordinated use of drawing and language The Design Journal 330Seniz Cikis and Fatma Ipek Ek + as the representation systems also refers to the main character of the design process. In these respects, by offering a systematic alternative for conceptualization within the design process, this study presents a new educational pattern. The study was implemented during the sixth semester of the architectural design studio and includes an examination of the relationships and functions of drawing and language as the very media of conceptualization within the discipline of architecture.

The politics of central government or incentives determine new design-systems of housing plots as well as housing units. Especially after the enactment of the law of urban regeneration for risky areas, regeneration of areas under disaster risk, there has been an acceleration in knocking down old buildings and constructing new ones in inner cities. Thus, this paper focuses on the changes in housing typologies in Hatay-Izmir, in terms of space syntax parameters through the time period 1960-2000, and interprets the final plan-solutions within the perspective of urban regeneration.By accelerating implementations of the urban transformation projects in Hatay region, alternative plan-typologies coming from the past have undergone the socalled "re-design and transformation" process; however, they have actually been substituted by the "never-changing" plan-templates of the apartment typology. We will examine these changes in plan typologies and spatial organisations of the mentioned apartment-projects on the same plots by utilizing the method of space syntax and visibility analysis (VGA). Transformations in spatial configuration in two periods are interpreted through their relationships to shifts in meaning of privacy and daily life represented by degree of permeability and connectivity of housing-unit-plans based on spatial analysis.

In the history of housing, balconies always appear as an important threshold between indoor and outdoor as well as between private and public life. In the transformative story of housing, we observe that, as new spaces have been introduced into design solutions, some spaces have undergone transformations or evolved like an organism, and some of them have gradually become subject to shrinking, or even extinction.In the current case of Izmir, the balconies generally fall into the last category, as prosthetic thresholds. Therefore, in this study, we tried to reveal the transformation story that extends to near extinction of balconies, by making comparison, and display that there is a legible difference between the late modern and post-modern cases of multi-storey housing-blocks in Izmir. The difference gives clues about possible transformations in inhabitants' life-styles, besides referring to the condition of balconies in contemporary design solutions.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is an important Italian architect with his seminal theses in the debates on the 'origins of architecture' and 'aesthetics'. He is numbered foremost among the founders of modern archaeology. But Piranesi was misinterpreted both in his day and posthumously. One of the most important vectors of approach yielding misinterpretation of Piranesi derived from the phenomenon comprising the early nineteenth-century Romanticist reception of Piranesi's character and work. Therefore, the present study firstly demonstrates that such observations derive not from an investigation of the work itself, nor from an appraisal of the historical context, but owe to the long-standing view in western culture that identifies the creator's ethos with the work and interprets the work so as to cohere with that pre-constructed ethos. Thus the paper aims at offering a new perspective to be adopted while examining Piranesi's works. This perspective lies within the very scope of understanding the reasons of the misinterpretations, the post-Romanticist perception of the 'artist' , and Piranesi's main arguments on the aesthetics, origins of architecture, and law.