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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ARC3921 | Selected Topics in Architecture | Fall | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SUNA ÇAĞAPTAY Assoc. Prof. ALİ DEVRİM IŞIKKAYA Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BELİNDA TORUS |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | Students are expected to associate history and design courses. |
Course Objectives: | since a field of social and cultural production, to review architecture as a milieu of actuality that is effective in particularities of every cultural-social formation within primary/specific texts, that can be updated virtually every semestre. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Assess architecture as social formation within techno-cultural and socio-cultural projections. II. Develop a critical thinking through texts related to architecture in focus of a primary and particular event and/ or concept. 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. |
Texts on architecture and/or texts on architectural issues and literal and visual texts produced by architectural thought comprise the course content. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Time-space and architecture | 1.1 Simpson, L.C., (1995). Technology, Time and The Conversations of Modernity, Routledge, New York. 1.2 Kern, S., (1983). The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1913, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. |
2) | Becoming acquainted with the concepts and the phenomena: time, space, modern, temporal time&space, modern time&space, architecture, İstanbul. | 2.1 metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture 2.2 Becoming İstanbul 2.3 Webster Online Dictionary, temporal, http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/temporal 2.4 The Oxford Dictionary of English, (2005). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1816. 2.5 Cambridge İnternational Dictionary of English, (1995). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1499. 2.6 The New Webster’s Dictionary of The English Language, (1986). Delair Publishing, New York, 1011. 2.7 Temporal, http://www.etymonline.com/temporal 2.8 TDK, (2005). Türkçe Sözlük, Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, 10. baskı, Ankara. 2.9 Devellioğlu, F., (2008). Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat, 25. baskı, Aydın Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara. |
3) | In the focus on the "selected topics" Architecture and Realities. | reading 3.1: Giddens, A., (1996). The Consequences of Modernity, 6. baskı, Polity Press, Cambridge. reading 3.2: Mumford, L., (1934).Technics and Civilization, Brace and Company, Newyork. |
4) | In the focus of the "selected topics" architecture andrealities. lecture: Time&space conception and architecture. | reading 4.1: Tanju, B., (2005). “Mekân-Zaman ve Mimarlıklar”, Zaman-Mekân, 168-185; Derleyen: Ural, Ş., Şentürer, A., Uz Sönmez, F. ve Berber, Ö., (2008) Zaman-Mekân, birinci baskı, YEM, İstanbul. reading 4.2: Davidson, C., C., (1999). Anytime, MIT Press, Cambridge. |
5) | In the focus of the "selected topics" architecture and realities. lecture: time&space and architecture in premodern world. | reading 5.1: Landes, D., S., (1983). Revolution of Time: Clocks and The Making of The Modern World, Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London. reading 5.2: Rossum, G., D., (1996). History of The Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders, Çeviren: Dunlap Thomas, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. |
6) | in the focus of the "selected topics" architecture and realities. lecture: Ottoman time&space and architecture in premodern world | reading 6.1: Tanyeli, U., (1998). “The Emergence of Modern Time Consciousness in the Islamic World and the Problematics of Spatial Perception”, 159-167; Derleyen: Davidson, C., C., (1999). Anytime, MIT Press, Cambridge. reading 6.2: Akın, N., (2002). 19. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısında Galata ve Pera, ikinci baskı, Literatür Yayınları, İstanbul. quiz 1. |
7) | in the focus of the "selected realities" architecture and realities. lecture: Nignt in Ottoman time&space conception and architecture | reading 7.1: Çelik, Z., (1993). Remaking of İstanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, California.; Çeviren: Deringil, S., (1996). 19. Yüzyılda Değişen İstanbul, birinci baskı, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul. reading 7.2: Işın, E., (2006). Everyday Life in İstanbul, Tarih, Kültür ve Mekan İlişkileri Üzerine Tarih Denemeleri, birinci baskı, YKY, İstanbul. |
8) | in the focus of the "selected topics" and architecture. discussion: premodern realities and architecture | submission of term paper topic |
9) | in the focus of the "selected topics", "realities", "change" and "architecture". lecture: change in time&space conception and architecture | reading 9.1: Mumford, L., (1934).Technics and Civilization, Brace and Company, Newyork. reading 9.2: Bartky, I.R. (1989). “The Adoption of Standart Time”, Technology and Culture(30): 25-56. reading 9.3: Simpson, L.C., (1995). Technology, Time and The Conversations of Modernity, Routledge, New York. reading 9.4: Giddens, A., (1996). The Consequences of Modernity, 6. baskı, Polity Press, Cambridge. |
10) | in the focus of the "selected topics", "realities", "change" and "architecture". lecture: time&space and architecture in modern world | reading 10.1: Sigfried Giedion,Space,Time and Architecture |
11) | in the focus of the "selected topics", "realities", "change" and "architecture". lecture: change in the ottoman time&space conception and architecture | reading 11.1: Atay, F., R. (1933). Eski Saat, Akşam Matbaası, İstanbul. reading 11.2: Haşim, A. (1921). “Müslüman Saati”, Dergâh, cilt 1, (3): 1-1. quiz 2 |
12) | in the focus of the "selected topics", "realities", "change" and "architecture". lecture: new time&space organization of ottoman istanbul and architecture | reading 12.1: Tanyeli, U., (1997). “Osmanlı Kentsel Ulaştırma Düzeni ve Batılılaşması: Tekno-Kültürel Bir Değerlendirme”, 350-360; Derleyen: III. Symposium of History of Sciences, Modern Transportation and Communication Techniques in the Ottoman State, first draft issue, İstanbul. reading 12.2: Ahmet Rasim, (2005). Şehir Mektupları; Derleyen: Akbayar, N., Oğlak Klasikleri, İstanbul. reading 12.3: Wishnitzer, A. (2009). The Transformation Of Ottoman Temporal Culture During The Long Nineteenth Century, Doktora Tezi, Tel Aviv University The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv. |
13) | in the focus of the "selected topics", the relations of "realities", "change" and architecture | term paper presentations. |
14) | in the focus of the "selected topics", the relations of "realities", "change" and "architecture" conclusion | term paper presentations |
15) | getting ready for final | |
16) | final | final exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Wishnitzer, A. (2009). The Transformation Of Ottoman Temporal Culture During The Long Nineteenth Century, Doktora Tezi, Tel Aviv University The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv. Mumford, L., (1934).Technics and Civilization, Brace and Company, Newyork. Bartky, I.R. (1989). “The Adoption of Standart Time”, Technology and Culture(30): 25-56. Simpson, L.C., (1995). Technology, Time and The Conversations of Modernity, Routledge, New York. Kern, S., (1983). The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1913, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Işın, E., (2006). İstanbul’da Gündelik Hayat, Tarih, Kültür ve Mekan İlişkileri Üzerine Tarih Denemeleri, birinci baskı, YKY, İstanbul. Derviş, P., Tanju, B. ve Tanyeli, U., (2009). İstanbullaşmak: Olgular, Sorunsallar, Metaforlar, birinci baskı, Garanti Galeri, İstanbul. Akın, N., (2002). 19. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısında Galata ve Pera, ikinci baskı, Literatür Yayınları, İstanbul. Çelik, Z., (1993). Remaking of İstanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, California.; Çeviren: Deringil, S., (1996). 19. Yüzyılda Değişen İstanbul, birinci baskı, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul. Giddens, A., (1996). The Consequences of Modernity, 6. baskı, Polity Press, Cambridge. Atay, F., R. (1933). Eski Saat, Akşam Matbaası, İstanbul. Haşim, A. (1921). “Müslüman Saati”, Dergâh, cilt 1, (3): 1-1. Tanpınar, A.H., (1961). Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul. Ahmet Rasim, (2005). Şehir Mektupları; Derleyen: Akbayar, N., Oğlak Klasikleri, İstanbul. |
References: | Ders sürecinde konu ile ilişkilendirilebilecek metinler eklenebilecektir. Supplementary material can be added during the course. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 20 |
Presentation | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 16 | 32 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 1 | 2 |
Presentations / Seminar | 10 | 20 |
Homework Assignments | 12 | 24 |
Quizzes | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 82 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | To be able to examine, interpret data and assess ideas with the scientific methods in the area of EU studies. | 2 |
2) | To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of EU studies, to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems. | 2 |
3) | To be introduced to and to get involved in other disciplines that EU studies are strongly related with (political science, international relations, law, economics, sociology, etc.) and to be able to conduct multi-disciplinary research and analysis on European politics. | 3 |
4) | To be able to evaluate current news on European Union and Turkey-EU relations and identify, analyze current issues relating to the EU’s politics and policies. | 2 |
5) | To be able to use English in written and oral communication in general and in the field of EU studies in particular. | 1 |
6) | To have ethical, social and scientific values throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to EU studies. | 1 |
7) | To be able to assess the historical development, functioning of the institutions and decision-making system and common policies of the European Union throughout its economic and political integration in a supranational framework. | 2 |
8) | To be able to evaluate the current legal, financial and institutional changes that the EU is going through. | 2 |
9) | To explain the dynamics of enlargement processes of the EU by identifying the main actors and institutions involved and compare previous enlargement processes and accession process of Turkey. | 2 |
10) | To be able to analyze the influence of the EU on political, social and economic system of Turkey. | 2 |
11) | To acquire insight in EU project culture and to build up project preparation skills in line with EU format and develop the ability to work in groups and cooperate with peers. | 2 |
12) | To be able to recognize theories and concepts used by the discipline of international relations and relate them to the historical development of the EU as a unique post-War political project. | 3 |