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
HTC6301	Architecture, Culture and Identity	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 :
Recommended Optional Program Components:	Students who take this course are expected to attend the architectural tour in Istanbul.
Course Objectives:	This course aims to examine the relation between the imperial, national, or personal identities and architectural culture since the early modern period and to recognize the place of the concept of identity within architectural culture.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Questioning the orientalist and post-colonial approaches through the term “Islamic architecture” and formulating architectural criticism on contemporary architecture within this perspective.
II. Analyzing political and religious agendas within architectural culture in the early modern period by drawing on contextual studies
III. Examining influence of vernacular architectural traditions on national architectures and understanding the significance within nationalism studies.
IV. Identifying values that shape modern architecture movements and their heroes and examining these identities from the perspective of feminist and materialist approaches.
V. Recognizing meaning and concept in the contemporary architecture of memorials and museums.

Course Content

1. Methods and terms to approach the relationship of identity and architecture

2. Religious identity and architecture: Islam and “Islamic Architecture”
Reading 2.1: Rabbat, 2012, s. 1-15.

3. Designing for Islamic Lands and Peoples
Reading 3.1: Yücel, Atilla, 1989, Arab World Institute Technical Review Summary
Reading 3.2: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, 2010, Museum of Islamic Art (Presentation panels)

4. Imperial identity and architecture: Ottoman royal court and Sinan.
Reading 4.1: Necipoğlu, 2005, pp. 115-126.

5. Historical inspirations for and after Ottoman architecture
Reading 5.1: Necipoğlu, 2005, pp. 207-221
Reading 5.2 Kuban, 2010, pp. 673-678.

6. Vernacular inspirations in modernist architecture: Sedad Hakkı Eldem
Reading 6.1: Nalbantoğlu, 1994, pp.66-74
Reading 6.2: Bozdoğan, 2010, pp. 131-146.

7. Vernacular inspirations in modernist architecture: Aris Konstantinidis
Reading 7.1: Theocharopoulou, 2010, pp. 111-130

8. MID-TERM

9. EXCURSION

10. Heroic architect and modern architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe
Reading 10.1: Milne, 1980, pp. 525-545
11. National identity and architecture: Early Turkish Republic
Reading 11.1: Bozdoğan, 2002, pp. 193-239
12. Building local identity against the ‘modern’ wave: Hassan Fathy
Reading 12.1: Richards & Serageldin & Rastorfer, 1985, pp. 16-24
13. Architecture as monuments and identity: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Reading 13.1: Sturken, 1991, pp. 118-142
Reading 13.2: McLeod, 2004[1989], pp. 380-404

14. Review

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)
2)	Questioning the concept of "Islamic ar and architecture"	Reading 1.1: Rabbat, 2012, s. 1-15 Reading 1.2. Necipoglu, 2012
3)	"Islamic heritage" with the contemporary architecture	Reading 3.1: Yücel, Atilla, 1989, Arab World Institute Technical Review Summary Reading 3.2: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, 2010, Museum of Islamic Art (Presentation panels)
4)	Imperial identity and architecture: Ottoman royal court and Sinan.	Reading 4.2: Necipoğlu, 2005, pp. 115-126.
5)	Sinan as a national genius and an architect hero
6)	Historical revivals in Istanbul
7)	the concept of Mediterranean architecture	Reading: Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean, eds Jean-François Lejeune & Michelangelo Sabatino, Routledge

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Bozdoğan, Sibel, 2002, Modernism and nation building: Turkish
architectural culture in the early republic, University of Washington Press

Bozdoğan, Sibel, 2010, The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect, in Modern Architecture and the
Mediterranean, eds Jean-François Lejeune & Michelangelo Sabatino, Routledge, pp.
131-146.

Kuban, Doğan, 2010, Ottoman Architecture, YEM

McLeod, Mary, 2004[1989], The Battle for the Monument: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Keith L. Eggener, American Cultural History, Routledge

Milne, David, 1980, ‘The Artist as Political Hero: Reflections on Modern Architectural Theory’, Political Theory, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 525-545

Nalbantoğlu, Gülsüm Baydar, 1994, ‘Between Civilization and Culture: Appropriation of Traditional Dwelling Forms in Early Republican Turkey’, Journal of Architectural Education, 1993, vol. 47, no. 2, pp.66-74

Necipoğlu, Gülru, 2005, Age of Sinan Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, Reaktion

Necipoğlu, Gülru, Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography of ‘Classical’ Ottoman Architecture”, Muqarnas 24 (2007): 141-83.

Necipoğlu, Gülru, "The Concept of Islamic Art: Inherited Discourses and New Approaches", in Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber and Gerhard Wolf, eds., Islamic Art and the Museum, London: Saqi, 2012.

Rabbat, Nasser, 2012, What is Islamic architecture anyway?, Journal of Art Historiography, no: 6, pp. 1-15.
Richards, J. M. & Serageldin, Ismail & Rastorfer, Darl, 1985, Hassan Fathy, Concept Media
Sturken, Marita, 1991, ‘The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial’, Representations, no. 35, pp. 118-142

Theocharopoulou, Ionna, Nature and the People, 2010, in Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean, eds Jean-François Lejeune & Michelangelo Sabatino, Routledge, pp. 111-130

References:

Bozdoğan, Sibel & Özkan, Suha & Yenal, Engin, 1987, Sedad Eldem Architect in Turkey, Concept Media, pp. 61-92

Fathy, Hassan, 1973, Architecture for the Poor, The University of Chicago Pres

Rand, Ayn, 2008 [1943], Fountainhead, Paw Prints

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Total		%
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 0
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		%
Total		%

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	12	3	36
Study Hours Out of Class	10	4	40
Presentations / Seminar	1	8	8
Quizzes	1	10	10
Midterms	1	8	8
Total Workload			102

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.	5
2)	to be able to conduct interdisciplinary researches based on specific methods in his/her own formulation	4
3)	to be able to disseminate research results by means of scientific meetings and through referred papers in international publications.	3
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.	2