MIM5121 Readings on ArchitectureBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ARCHITECTURE (TURKISH, NON-THESIS)General Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
ARCHITECTURE (TURKISH, NON-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
MIM5121 Readings on Architecture Spring 0 3 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: Turkish
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. EMİNE ÖZEN EYÜCE
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: Architecture as technocultural as well as a field of sociocultural production necessitates thought constructions to be actualized. the objective of the course is to discuss the immediate relation of these constructions, which are socially and historicaly contingent, to architecture and raise awareness to "texts producing architecture" and "architectures producing texts".

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who have succeeded in this course;

I. Assess architecture as social formation within techno-cultural and socio-cultural projections.

II. Criticise texts written on and/or related to architecture and the medium of literal and visual enunciation producing texts.

III. Conclude that texts change in each and every socio-cultural formation, that they are pluralistic and hence, they are historical.

IV. Associate correlations of architecture-history-theory-criticism to recognise architecture as a field of reproduction and relate this comprehension to design implementation.

Course Content

Texts on architecture and/or texts on architectural issues and literal and visual texts produced by architectural thought comprise the course content.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
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2) Reading and Evaluation I
3) Reading and Evaluation II
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Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age.
Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air.
In what style should we build?
Usul-i Mimari-i Osmani
Edmondo de Amicis, İstanbul (1874)
Ahmet Rasim, Şehir Mektupları
J. P. A. Van Der Vin, Travellers to Greece and Constantinople: ancient monuments and old traditions in medieval travellers' tales, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, Leiden, 1980.
Hasan Kuruyazıcı, Armenian Architects of Istanbul in the Era of Westernization
Pars Tuğlacı, Osmanlı Mimarlığı’nda Balyan Ailesinin Rolü
Walter Benjamin, Passages
Le Corbusier, towards a new architecture
Sedad Hakkı Eldem
References: Supplementary material can be added during the course.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 10 % 10
Homework Assignments 10 % 20
Presentation 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 12 2 24
Study Hours Out of Class 10 12 120
Quizzes 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 150

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) 1
2) 2
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5) 5
6) 6
7) 7
8) 8
9) 9