COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
INT2943 | Sketching Istanbul | Fall | 0 | 4 | 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 : | Assoc. Prof. SEZİN HATİCE TANRIÖVER |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor OSMAN ÜMİT SİREL Instructor SİNAN POLVAN Assoc. Prof. SEZİN HATİCE TANRIÖVER |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | documentary movie |
Course Objectives: | Drawing should be designated as a modality of thinking other than being encompassed by given talent which is technical or artistic or both. In other words, visual thinking is a specific language that is constituted by mostly lines that can attain different qualities. Hence, the course aims to equip students commencing their architectural education with skills to develop and use freehand drawing as means to interior architectural perception and representation. For this purpose, studio sessions will be held for primary information exchange and outdoor exercises will be performed on specific urban sites. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Record the physical environment that is visually perceived and mentally distinguished in two dimensional media. II. Record the mentally processed idea in two dimensional media. III. Develop scale and proportion skills. IV. Manipulate lines as communicative tools. |
Developing skills in freehand visualizations of architectural ideas expressed as drawing for mental and manual coordination. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction. Concept of line as thought and sketching activity as a perfomance of visual communication. | none |
2) | Line qualities, hatching. Line weights as line expression. Hatching as surface expression. | none |
3) | Approximating dimensional relations within objects. Notions of dimension, scale and proportion. | none |
4) | Traces of Byzance, historical peninsula | |
5) | City walls of Istanbul | |
6) | Galata | |
7) | Beyoğlu I - From Tünel to Galatasaray | |
8) | Beyoğlu II - From Galatasaray to Taksim | |
9) | Zeyrek ve Cibali | |
10) | Süleymaniye | |
11) | Fener and Balat | |
12) | Topkapı Palace and Archaeological Museum | |
13) | Sirkeci and Eminönü | |
14) | Bosphorus Mansions |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Ders notları stüdyo saatleri sonrasında sisteme yüklenmektedir. Ayrıca, eskiz teknikleri üzerine yardımcı kitaplara üniversite kütüphanesinden erişilebilir. Course notes are uploaded into the system after studio hours. Moreover, some supplementary materials on sketching are accessible at the university library. |
References: | Kendra Schank Smith, Architects' Drawings, Architectural Press, 2005. Kendra Schank Smith, Architects' Sketches, Architectural Press, 2008. Sue Ferguson Gussow, Architects Draw, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008. Brian Edwards, Understanding Architecture Through Drawing, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008. George Hlavács, The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching, BIS Publishers, Amsterdam, 2014. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 10 | % 10 |
Field Work | 10 | % 50 |
Paper Submission | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Application | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Field Work | 11 | 4 | 44 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 106 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. | |
2) | Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. | |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | |
6) | Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. | |
7) | Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. | |
8) | Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. | |
9) | Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. | |
10) | Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. | |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | |
13) | Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. | |
14) | Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. | 3 |