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:	Hybrid
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. 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.Categorize 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.Interpret 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.
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; 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	Murat Gül (2017). Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul. I.B. Tauris, pp.180-199.(BAU Library: DR 731 .G85)
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 Bozdoğan and Esra Akcan (2011). Turkey: Modern Architectures in History. Reaktion Books. (Beşiktaş Kuzey Campus Lib. NA 1368. B69 2012)
Şevki Vanlı (2006). Mimariden Konuşmak, Bilinmek İstenmeyen 20. Yüzyıl Türk Mimarlığı, Eleştirel Bakış, Şevki Vanlı Vakfı. (Beşiktaş Kuzey Campus Lib. NA 1368. V36 2006 v.3)
Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). (BAU Library: NA 1368/.B693 2001
Murat Gül (2017). Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul. I.B. Tauris.(BAU Library: DR 731 .G85)
Baydar, Gülsüm. (2004), "The Cultural Burden of Architecture," Journal of Architectural Education, 57: 19–27.
Collective (2015). History of Istanbul from Antiquity to XXI. Century. TDV İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi (İSAM) ve İBB Kültür AŞ. (https://istanbultarihi.ist/)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	2	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 10
Presentation	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 20
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	14	182
Presentations / Seminar	1	14	14
Project	1	8	8
Homework Assignments	2	6	12
Quizzes	2	5	10
Midterms	1	14	14
Paper Submission	1	18	18
Total Workload			300

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.