HISTORY, THEORY, AND CRITICISM IN DESIGN (ENGLISH, PHD)
PhD	TR-NQF-HE: Level 8	QF-EHEA: Third Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
HTC6101	Critical History of Modern Architecture and Design	Fall	3	0	3	12

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYŞEM ELA KAÇEL
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. AYŞE İREM KIRIŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to examine various design movements, theories and approaches from 1900s up to the end of the 20th century. In the seminar, students are provided a critical review of the history of modernism in arts, design and architecture with a focus on major debates among designers and avant-garde movements in Europe, the US and Japan. Linking these debates to the current design practices will enable students to comprehend new relations between the past and the present.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. explore the relationships of the 20th-century modern design movements and their theories to arts, culture, society and politics
II. analyze various buildings and their interiors as representations of theories of modernism within their urban, social and cultural contexts
III. compare and contrast various design approaches in the history of modern architecture and design
IV. examine the relations between the avant-garde and the ordinary, between the past and present, between the Western and the non-Western
V. enhance research skills in historiographical analysis of various design philosophies and theories as well as of built/unbuilt spaces (in urban, architectural and interior scale) that are considered as iconic examples of the 20th century modern architecture and design.

Course Content

In this course, the history of various design movements and theories that emerged throughout 20th century in Europe, the US and Japan will be subject to a critical survey. The formation of various networks among designers and their approaches to modernism which construct the so-called Modern Movement will be analyzed in relation to national and international debates in modern arts, design and architecture. Reading the historiographical depictions and interpretations of the 20th-century modernism in a comparative analysis will provide students the analytical tools for a critical review of modern architecture and design.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)
1)		Students are required to complete specific readings assigned each week. Critical and in-depth review of these readings will form the basis of class discussions on each week's topic.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: a critical history (Oxford University Press, 1980); Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth: avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s (MIT Press, 1990); Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: inventing architectural modernism (MIT Press, 2008).
References:	Chapters from other relevant books and selected articles will be compiled in a Course Reader that will be available to students at the beginning of the course.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	13	% 40
Presentation	4	% 20
Project	1	% 20
Final	1	% 20
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	4	12	48
Project	1	50	50
Homework Assignments	13	12	156
Final	1	22	22
Total Workload			500

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)	to be able to pursue independent academic research work in his/her field of study/specialization.	4
2)	to be able to conduct interdisciplinary researches based on specific methods in his/her own formulation	3
3)	to be able to disseminate research results by means of scientific meetings and through referred papers in international publications.	4
4)	to be able to follow up the state of the art information processing technologies related with her/his field of specialization.	4
5)	to be able to act as refree/problem solver in the case of national/international problems of his/her field of specialization.	3