The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Ability to raise clear and precise questions, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test alternative outcomes against relevant criteria and standards.
- Ability to gather, assess, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within architectural coursework and design processes.
- Understanding of parallel and divergent canons and traditions of architecture, landscape and urban design including examples of indigenous, vernacular, local, regional, national settings from the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern hemispheres in terms of their climatic, ecological, technological, socioeconomic, public health, and cultural factors
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| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction/ Discussion on the content of the course |
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| 2) |
Design as an end product and process |
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| 3) |
"Context" in Architecture |
Reading 1. Idea. 85 Context / Idea. 16 Platform
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| 4) |
"Context" in Architecture |
Reading 2. Stratification pp.147-151 in Unwin, Simon (1997) Analizing Architecture, Routledge, New York. |
| 5) |
Theories of Form
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Reading 3. Design Tactics pp.200-205 : Lawson, Bryan (2005) How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified,4th ed.,Elsevier |
| 6) |
Theories of Form |
Okuma 4.Gelernter, M.(1995) Sources of Architectural Form, New York: Manchester University Press, pp.1-18 |
| 7) |
Space and Spatial Organizations in Architecture; Changes in understanding of 'space' in Architectural History |
Reading 5. Theo van Doesburg - Towards a plastic architecture |
| 8) |
Space and Spatial Organizations in Architecture; Changes in understanding of 'space' in Architectural History
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Reading 6.1. Woods, L.,The question of space, http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-question-of-space/
Reading 6.2. "Space", pp. 256-275 in Adrian Forty,(2004) Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson
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| 9) |
MID-TERM EXAM |
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| 10) |
On Form and Function:
A Comperative Analysis of Different Built Forms with Same Function and A Comperative Analysis of Similar Space Organisations with different Built Forms |
Reading 7. "Function", pp. 174-195 in the book: Forty, Adrian (2004) Words and Buildings:A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson.
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| 11) |
Technological Developments, materials and Structural Systems in Architecture:
Comperative Analysis of Selected Built Examples |
Reading 8: Deplazes,A.(2008) Constructing Architecture,materials processes structures,2nd ed.,Birkhauser pp.13-16
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| 12) |
Comperative Analysis of Selected Built Forms |
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| 13) |
Presentations of Selected Examples by the Students |
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| 14) |
Review of the topics.. |
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| Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Excerpts of asked reading materials will be given on weekly basis |
| References: |
1.Clark, R. H. and Pause, M., (1996) Precedents in Architecture, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2.Deplazes, Andrea (2008) Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures, Birkhäuser Architecture; 2nd ed.
3.Forty Adrian (2004)Words andBuildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson.
4.Kakkonen (2008) Basics: Design Methods, Birkhauser.
5.Moussavi, Farshid (2009) The Function of Form, Actar.
6.Müller, W. (2012) Mimarlık Atlası Cilt 1 Mezopotamyadan Bizans’a Mimarlık Tarihi,Trans. by Doğan Tuna, YEM Yayınları.
7.Müller, W. (2012) Mimarlık Atlası Cilt 2 Romaneskden Günümüze Mimarlık Tarihi, Trans. by Doğan Tuna, YEM Yayınları.
8. Ots, Enn (2010) Decoding Theory Speak : An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory, Routledge. 9.Unvin, Simon (2009) Analysing Architecture, Routledge.
10._(2011) Biçim ve İşlev, ed. by. Hakan Anay ve Ülkü Özten, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Kuram Kitaplığı
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Using the theoretical/conceptual and practical knowledge acquired for architectural design, design activities and research. |
3 |
| 2) |
Identifying, defining and effectively discussing aesthetic, functional and structural requirements for solving design problems using critical thinking methods. |
4 |
| 3) |
Being aware of the diversity of social patterns and user needs, values and behavioral norms, which are important inputs in the formation of the built environment, at local, regional, national and international scales. |
4 |
| 4) |
Gaining knowledge and skills about architectural design methods that are focused on people and society, sensitive to natural and built environment in the field of architecture. |
3 |
| 5) |
Gaining skills to understand the relationship between architecture and other disciplines, to be able to cooperate, to develop comprehensive projects; to take responsibility in independent studies and group work. |
2 |
| 6) |
Giving importance to the protection of natural and cultural values in the design of the built environment by being aware of the responsibilities in terms of human rights and social interests. |
3 |
| 7) |
Giving importance to sustainability in the solution of design problems and the use of natural and artificial resources by considering the social, cultural and environmental issues of architecture. |
2 |
| 8) |
Being able to convey and communicate all kinds of conceptual and practical thoughts related to the field of architecture by using written, verbal and visual media and information technologies. |
3 |
| 9) |
Gaining the ability to understand and use technical information about building technology such as structural systems, building materials, building service systems, construction systems, life safety. |
3 |
| 10) |
Being aware of legal and ethical responsibilities in design and application processes. |
1 |
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