INT3022 Theory of DesignBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
INT3022 Theory of Design Spring 2 0 2 4

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Must Course
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Assoc. Prof. SEZİN HATİCE TANRIÖVER
Course Lecturer(s): Assoc. Prof. SEZİN HATİCE TANRIÖVER
Recommended Optional Program Components: Museum and site visits
Course Objectives: The course focuses on the theoretical background of knowledge and design issues throughout the history. The main lines of development and influential factors, designers, art and design schools, exhibitions which are the turning points in the history of design will be discussed.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- recognize various definitions of design, designer and design culture
- relate the concepts of “art” and “science”; “aesthetics” and “functionality”
- define processes of design
- recognize different approaches and different ways of seeing design.
- explain theories of form; theories of knowledge and theories of creation
- relate theories of knowledge and theories of creation generated by subject-object problem.
- recall different theories of design education and their applications such as Ecole des-Beaux Arts and Bauhaus
- interpret the history of design/form in relation to subject-object dichotomy
- discuss contemporary theories of design and the concepts of real and virtual.

Course Content

Introduction to design concept, human activity
Definitions of "design" and different ways of seeing design
Theories of form / subject-object problem
Transformation of theories of knowledge and theories of form from antiquity to 20th century.
Contemporary approaches to design theory

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to design concept, human activity
2) The Process of Designing Lawson, Bryan. “Design tactics” (chapter 12) in How Designers Think. The Design Process Demystified. (fourth edition). Oxford: Elsevier, 2006, p. 202-219. (3 person) Tunalı, İsmail. “Bir Tasarım Modeli Olarak Müzik” Tasarım Felsefesi içinde. İstanbul:Yem Yayınları, 2009. s. 49-57.
3) Theories of form / subject-object problem Pallasmaa, Juhani. “Embodied Thinking ” in The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture, UK: Wiley, 2009, p. 106-121 Pallasmaa, Juhani. “Emotion and Imagination” in The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture, UK: Wiley, 2009, p. 131-140 Pallasmaa, Juhani. “Theory and Life” in The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture, UK: Wiley, 2009, p. 141-150
4) Transformation of form The Ancient World + The Middle Ages Vitruvius. “The Education of the Architect” in The Ten Books on Architecture, NY: Dover Publications, p. 5-13 Panofsky Erwin. “The history of the theory of human proportions as a reflection of the history of style” in Meaning of the Visual Arts, US: Chicago University Press, p. 55-107
5) Transformation of form in The Renaissance + Baroque Williamson, J. H. “The Grid: History, Use and Meaning” in Design Discourse. History,Theory and Criticism (ed. Victor Margolin), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 171-186. Tükel, Uşun. “17. yüzyıl Hollanda Resminde Konut: Mekansal Gösterimin Doğası”, Arredomento Mimarlık, 2003/3 s.77-81 “17. yüzyıl Hollandasında Yetişkinler için Bebek Evleri” Arredomento Mimarlık, 2003/3 s.82-84
6) Transformation of Form In the Enlightenment Era Burke, Edmund. “Elements of the Sublime, From Sublime and Beautiful” An Excerpt from Volume I of Outline of Great Books Tunalı, İsmail. “Bir Tasarım Modeli Olarak Edebiyat” Tasarım Felsefesi İçinde, İstanbul:Yem Yayınları, 2009. s. 57- 63. Ehses H. J. Hanno. “Representing Macbeth: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric” in Design Discourse. History,Theory and Criticism (ed. Victor Margolin) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 187-198.
7) Transformation of Form in the 19th Century Carlhian, J. P., The Ecole des Beaux-Arts: Modes and Manners, JAE, Vol. 33 No 2, Beginnings (Nov., 1979), p. 7-17. Rice, Charles. “Rethinking histories of the interior” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston John Wiley and Sons, 2011, p.284-291 Keyser, B. W. Ornament as Idea: Indirect Imitation of Nature in the Design Reform Movement, Journal of Design History, Vol. 11 No:2 (1998), p. 127-144
8) Midterm
9) Transformation of Form in the First Half of the 20th Century Yaman, Zeynep Yasa. “Bauhaus ve Söylemleştirilen İç Mekan Anlayışı: Yeni Yaşam, Yeni Dekorasyon, Yeni Mobilya”, Bauhaus: Modernleşmenin Tasarımı içinde, (der. Ali Artun ve Esra Aliçavuşoğlu). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, s. 201-240 Köksal, Duygu. “Cumhuriyet Ideolojisi ve Estetik Modernizm: Baltacıoğlu, Yeni Zamanlar ve Bauhaus”, Bauhaus: Modernleşmenin Tasarımı içinde, (der. Ali Artun ve Esra Aliçavuşoğlu). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, s. 241-260
10) Transformation of Form In the Second Half of The 20th Century Benjamin, Walter. “Teknik Olarak Kopyalanabildiği Çağda Sanat Yapıtı” Sanat ve Siyaset. Kültür Çağında Sanat ve Kültürel Politika içinde , ed. Ali Artun, İtanbul:İletişim Yayınları, s. 91-129. Kingwell, Mark, “Tables, Chairs and Other Machines for Thinking” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston John Wiley and Sons, 2011 p.173-179. Baudrillard, Jean .”Structures of Atmosphere” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston John Wiley and Sons, 2011, p.37-42. Olalquiaga, Celeste. “Dust” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston, John Wiley and Sons, 2011, p. 233-238.
11) Contemporaray Approaches to Design Theory Kolarevic, Branko. (ed.) . “Introduction” in Architecture in the Digital Age. Design and Manufacturing, New York, London: Taylor and Francis, 2009. p. 1-10 Dubbeldam, Winka. “Thing Shapes” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna PrestonJohn Wiley and Sons, p. 96-100 Goulthorpe, Mark. “Notes on Digital Nesting: a Poetics of Evolutionary Form” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston John Wiley and Sons, p. 133-137. Groothuizen, Christian. “Faith and Virtality” in Intimus. Interior Design Theory Reader (ed. By) Mark Taylor and Julianna Preston John Wiley and Sons, p.138-143.
12) Presentations
13) Presentations
14) Evaluation and Discussion

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: yok
References: Gelernter, M., Sources of Architectural Form, New York: Manchester University Press, 1995
Massey, A., Interior Design since 1900, London: Thames and Hudson, 2008.
Eck van C. and Winters E. (ed.) Dealing with the Visual: Art History, aesthetics and visual culture, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Honour, H. and Fleming, J. , The Visual Arts: A History, Englewood Cliffs:Prentice Hall Inc, 1982
Hauffe, T., Design as an Illustrated Historical Overview, Barron’s Germany, 1996.
Hollis, E., Milligan, A., Milton, A., Plunkett, D. and Gigli, J. and Hay, F., Thinking Inside the Box: A Reader in Interiors for the 21st Century. Middlesex University, 2007.
Margolin, V., Design Discourse. History. Theory . Criticism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Conrads, U., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture, ,The MIT Press , 1975.
Beyazıt, N., Tasarımı Anlamak İstanbul:İdeal Kültür & Yayıncılık, 2008.
Artun, A. ve Beyazıtoğlu, E., Bauhaus: Modernleşmenin Tasarımı. Türkiye’de Mimarlık, Sanat, Tasarım Eğitimi ve Bauhaus, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2009.
Panofsky, E., Gotik Mimarlık ve Skolastik Felsefe, çev. Engin Akyürek, Kabalcı Yayınevi, 1995
Aksoy, Özgönül., Biçimlendirme, YEM Yayın , 2010.
Tunalı, İsmail. Tasarım Felsefesi. Tasarım Modelleri ve Endüstri Tasarımı. YEM Yayın, 2009.
Pallasmaa, Juhan. The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and Senses, John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
Lowson, Bryan. How Designers Think. The Design Process De Mystified (Fourth Edition). Elsevier, 2006.
A Hale Jonathan. Building Ideas. An Introduction to Architectural Theory, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 1 % 10
Presentation 2 % 20
Midterms 1 % 20
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 13 39
Study Hours Out of Class 14 46
Presentations / Seminar 12 16
Homework Assignments 1 3
Midterms 1 3
Total Workload 107

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) Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture, 2
2) Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions, 3
3) Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts, 3
4) Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires, 3
5) Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately, 4
6) Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture, 1
7) Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature, 1
8) Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art, 5
9) Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture, 2