ARCHITECTURE (ENGLISH, THESIS)
Master	TR-NQF-HE: Level 7	QF-EHEA: Second Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 7

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
ARC5427	Selected Periods in Architectural History	Fall Spring	3	0	3	12

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery:	Hybrid
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. GÖKSUN AKYÜREK ALTÜRK
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. SUNA ÇAĞAPTAY Assoc. Prof. GÖKSUN AKYÜREK ALTÜRK
Recommended Optional Program Components:
Course Objectives:	The aim of the course is to examine how nineteenth-century cities, as key elements of modernity, shaped social, economic, and physical transformations. The urban transformations of major cities in Western Europe and the Middle East will be analyzed through a comparative lens, focusing on factors such as industrialization, capitalism, and urban migration. The course will also explore how the architectural structures and urbanization processes of these cities reflect and respond to their political and social histories. Our goal is to map these transformations in the late nineteenth century within the architectural and urban context.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
-Analyze the architectural and urban transformations of 19th-century cities in relation to industrialization, urban migration, and capitalism.
-Explore the architectural responses of cities in Western Europe and the Middle East to socio-political and economic changes of the 19th century.
-Evaluate the connections between architectural forms, urban planning strategies, and their distinct historical, cultural, and political contexts.
-Develop critical thinking about the influence of 19th-century urban theories on the design of public spaces, infrastructure, and urban morphology.
-Create research outputs that synthesize architectural analysis and historical interpretation through written, visual, and diagrammatic methods.

Course Content

Nineteenth-century cities are the keys to modernity. They are
witnesses of a great transformation in regard to social, economic, and political
factors: urban migration, industrialization, the emergence of capitalism, all of
which are also related to the global spatial distribution of power. This course
will trace the social, economic, and physical transformations in major cities of
Western Europe and the Middle East, in a comparative and critical perspective of
similarities and differences. We will also study the physical cities themselves:
the ways in which they respond and reflect their distinct political and social
histories. The goal is to map the cities’ transformation in terms of late
nineteenth-century concepts of urban content.
The Teaching Methods and Techniques used in the lesson are lecture, group work, individual study, field trip, guest speaker/expert invitation, reading, and discussion.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Discussion on the conception self and the other; and the modern conception of the world in polarities.	Edward Said, "Introduction," in Orientalism, New York : Vintage Books, 1994, 1- 30. (BAU Lib: DS 12 .S24)
3)	An exploration of the urban experience in the actual urban context of the nineteenth century and its recent conceptual repertoire.	Judith Walkowitz, "Urban Spectatorship," in Vanessa Schwarts, Jeanne Przyblyski, (Eds.), The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader, New York and London: Routledge, 205-210. (BAU Lib: NX 180 .S6 N56)
4)	The political/economic transformation of the world, expanding European metropolis as opposed to the rest of the world.	Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire," in The Age of Empire 1875-1914, New York: Vintage Books, 1989, 56-83.
5)	Experiences of the individual living in the (European) metropolis.	Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, (Eds.) The Blackwell City Reader, , Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002, 11-19.(BAU Lib: HT 151 .C586)
5)	Experiences of the individual living in the (European) metropolis.	Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, (Eds.) The Blackwell City Reader, , Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002, 11-19.(BAU Lib: HT 151 .C586)
6)	Student Presentations - Phase One of the Final Assignment
7)	London	Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire," in The Age of Empire 1875-1914, New York: Vintage Books, 1989, 23-62.
8)	Istanbul	Edhem Eldem, "Istanbul: from imperial to peripheralized capital," in Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, (Eds.), The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 135-206. (BAU Lib: DS 99 .A56 E4319)
9)	Paris	Marshall Berman, "Introduction" and "Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets," in All That is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernity, NY: Penguin Books, 1988, 15-36; 131-172. (BAU Lib: CB 425 .B47)
10)	Algiers	Zeynep Çelik, Chapter 1, Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule, University of California Press, 1997
11)	Vienna	Carl E.Schorske, "The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism,"pp.166-178, in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader, Schwartz and Pryzblyski (eds.), New York and London: Routledge, 2004, 3-14. (BAU Lib: DB 851 .S3).
12)	Cairo	Janet Abu-Lughod, "Tale of Two Cities: The Origins of Modern Cairo," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Jul., 1965), pp. 429- 457
13)	Great Exhibitions-Cities Re-Made	Timothy Mitchell, The World as Exhibition, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 31, No. 2. (Apr., 1989), pp. 217-236
14)	Student Presentations

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875-1914, New York: Vintage Books, 1987. (BAU Lib: HC 253 .H6319) Zeynep Çelik, Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth- Century World's Fairs, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, (BAU Lib: NA 957 .C4419)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	2	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Paper Submission	1	% 10
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	13	13	169
Presentations / Seminar	1	18	18
Homework Assignments	2	14	28
Quizzes	1	2	2
Midterms	1	16	16
Paper Submission	1	10	10
Final	1	16	16
Total Workload			301

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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.