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
ARC5426	Turkish Architecture I	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.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖKSUN AKYÜREK ALTÜRK
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to provide a general historical perspective of the architectural field in Turkey starting with the transitional period from late Ottoman Empire to the Republican era. Accordingly, the evaluation, comparison and discussion of not specific buildings and architects but a wider view of the context-bound processes of architectural production in a chronological order, will be the main target of this course.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1.Identify main course of the architectural production in Turkey in the last century and its evolution as a professional discipline.
2.Grasp the multiplicity of its actors, problems and processes.
3.Recognize the processes of urbanization in Turkey throughout the twentieth century.
4.Compare and relate different conditions of architectural productions in different periods of time.
5.Get familiar with the related literature of architecture and urbanization in Turkey.

Course Content

This course basically aims to bring forth the key issues related with the theoretical and the actual productions in the architectural field of Turkey, with a critical perspective. Accordingly, in this course a wide range of problems will be interrogated and discussed in a chronological yet thematic order, most of which also intersect and interact with the actual dynamics of society, politics, economy and culture both in national and global level.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction; How to define the content of a "Turkish Architecture"? How to liberate its content from its cultural limitations?
2)	The national identity of any architecture in question.	Baydar, Gülsüm. (2004), "The Cultural Burden of Architecture," Journal of Architectural Education, 57: 19–27.
3)	Architectural Context of the Late Ottoman Period: Last century of the empire and its architecture(s).
4)	Shifting paradigms-Transition to the Turkish Republic and the birth of a new architectural era	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 1, Architecture of Revolution, 17-48. -Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 2, Building for the Modern Nation State, 49-80.
5)	Architecture of the house - Living in a modern house/family/city	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 3, The Modern House, 81-104.
6)	Post-war architecture in Turkey	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 4, Populist Democracy and Post-war Modernism, 105-138.
7)	Architecture and the city	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 5, Housing in the Metropolis, 140-170.
8)	Architecture and the State	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 6, Architecture under Coups d'État, 171-202.
9)	Student presentations
10)	Architecture and the question of postmodernity	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 7, Postmodern Landscapes in Post-Kemalist Turkey, 203-234.
11)	City/Housing/Spontaneity	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 8, The Illegal City and New Residential Segregation, 235-263.
12)	Turkish "Starchitects"	Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 9, The 'Young Turk Architects' of Globalisation, 264-297.
13)	The Istanbul case	Çağlar Keyder, Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local, Boston: Rowman&Littlefield, 1999, pp.1-31.
14)	Student presentations
15)	Preparation of the term paper
16)	Submission of the final paper

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Will be announced weekly.
References:	Sibel Bozdogan, Esra Akcan, Turkey: Modern Architectures in History, Reaktion Books, 2012

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	5	% 20
Presentation	1	% 30
Paper Submission	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		%
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	39
Study Hours Out of Class	13	78
Presentations / Seminar	1	8
Homework Assignments	2	8
Paper Submission	1	18
Total Workload		151

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 researches at proficiency level in Architecture and related disciplines individually and participate or take responsibility in groups.
3)	Demostrate an ability to develop new approaches and produce knowledge at proficiency level researches both in architecture and related disciplines.
4)	Apply critical thinking methods , identify, formulate, and effectively communicate the critical issues involved in the solution of design problems.
5)	Evaluate the phenomena in Architectural History and analyze historical, social, political backgrounds of the contemporary developments.
6)	Be able to conduct qualitative and quantitative researches on the discipline of Architecture.
7)	Be able to communicate the results of his researches, design proposals, conceptual and practical thoughts in the field of architecture using written, oral, visual media
8)	Develops the lifelong learning abilities.
9)	Engage social, legal, ethical and aesthetical responsibility in the discipline of architecture.