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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 |
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) | To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
2) | To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level. | |
3) | To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them. | |
4) | To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends. | |
5) | To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner. | |
6) | To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents. | |
7) | To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. | |
8) | To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit. | |
9) | To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
10) | To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels. |