ARCHITECTURE (ENGLISH, THESIS) | |||||
Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ARC5421 | Readings on Architecture | Fall Spring |
3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DURNEV ATILGAN YAĞAN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | Architecture as technocultural as well as a field of sociocultural production necessitates thought constructions to be actualized. the objective of the course is to discuss the immediate relation of these constructions, which are socially and historicaly contingent, to architecture and raise awareness to "texts producing architecture" and "architectures producing texts". |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Assess architecture as social formation within techno-cultural and socio-cultural projections. II. Criticise texts written on and/or related to architecture and the medium of literal and visual enunciation producing texts. III. Conclude that texts change in each and every socio-cultural formation, that they are pluralistic and hence, they are historical. IV. Associate correlations of architecture-history-theory-criticism to recognise architecture as a field of reproduction and relate this comprehension to design implementation. |
Texts on architecture and/or texts on architectural issues and literal and visual texts produced by architectural thought comprise the course content. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Reading texts & contexts | |
2) | becoming acquainted with the concepts and the phonomena workshop: reading concepts and phenomena by viewing dictionary | |
3) | 19th century as building site and thinking constructions. | |
4) | 19th century as building site and thinking constructions. | |
5) | 19th century and inter-textuality | |
6) | Reading 19th century in local contexts: İstanbul case. | |
7) | Special and Spatial Reading: İstanbul, Balyan's and Architecture. | |
8) | Discussion: 19th century, inter-textuality and architecture | |
9) | 20th century, meta-texts, city and architecture | |
10) | 20th century, Meta-texts and architecture | |
11) | 20th century, Meta-texts and architecture | |
12) | reading 20th century in local context: textuality in İstanbul | |
13) | discussion: 20th century, meta-texts and architecture | |
14) | Final critics on term papers |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age. Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air. In what style should we build? Usul-i Mimari-i Osmani Edmondo de Amicis, İstanbul (1874) Ahmet Rasim, Şehir Mektupları J. P. A. Van Der Vin, Travellers to Greece and Constantinople: ancient monuments and old traditions in medieval travellers' tales, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, Leiden, 1980. Hasan Kuruyazıcı, Armenian Architects of Istanbul in the Era of Westernization Pars Tuğlacı, Osmanlı Mimarlığı’nda Balyan Ailesinin Rolü Walter Benjamin, Passages Le Corbusier, towards a new architecture Sedad Hakkı Eldem |
References: | Supplementary material can be added during the course. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 10 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 8 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 14 | 168 |
Homework Assignments | 8 | 10 | 80 |
Quizzes | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 291 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Develop and deepen knowledge in the same or in a different field to the proficiency level based on Bachelor level qualifications. | |
2) | Be able to conduct research at the proficiency level in Architecture or related disciplines individually, as well as to lead, participate in, or take responsibility for group projects | |
3) | Demostrate an ability to develop new approaches and produce knowledge at proficiency level researches both in architecture and related disciplines. | |
4) | Make decisions and produce comprehensive solutions to poorly defined, complex design problems at different scales related to the field by using critical thinking methods. | |
5) | Evaluate the phenomena in architectural history and assess contemporary developments by analyzing their historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds. | |
6) | Be able to conduct independent qualitative and quantitative research requiring expertise in the field of architecture and contribute to professional knowledge and practice. | |
7) | Be able to present and publish the results of the research or design proposal related to the field in academic dialogue, in national and international forums, using written, oral, or other information and communication technologies, at the B2 General Level of the European Language Portfolio in English. | |
8) | Develops the lifelong learning abilities. | |
9) | Engage with the social responsibilities, legal, ethical, and aesthetic values of the architecture discipline. |