| MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD) | |||||
| PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| ARC5416 | Non-Standard Modernism | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
| Language of instruction: | En |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYŞEM ELA KAÇEL |
| Course Objectives: | The intention of the course is twofold: first, to problematize the standard stories of modernism that cannot explain the complexities and contradictions of the relation between architecture and culture. Second, to develop a substantial understanding of the interactions between architecture, cultural politics and ideology. Understanding architecture as a means of communication between institutions, societies or cultures, the course does not interpret modern architecture as a top-down, one-way indoctrination of ideas, either imported or exported, but rather as an exchange between two agents that is continually practiced in everyday life. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. comprehend modern architecture as a means of communication between institutions, societies or cultures II. develop a critique of the standard histories of modernism III. understand the contention between modernism and culture by the way of in-depth analysis of critical debates throughout the 20th century modern architecture IV. develop a substantial understanding of the interactions between architecture, cultural politics and ideology and their impacts on architectural knowledge and production |
| This course investigates the contention between modernism and culture that is not problematized in the canonic historiography of modern architecture. Looking at the exchange among various modernisms throughout the 20th century, the intention of the course is twofold: first, to initiate a critique of the standard histories of modernism; and second, to develop a substantial understanding of the interactions between architecture, culture, arts and politics by drawing on specific case studies. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
| 1) | Introduction | ||
| 2) | MODERNISM W/(O) CULTURE Part I The contention between modernism and culture / its reflection or erasure in ‘standard stories’ of modernism / a critique of the canonic historiography of modern architecture: Sigfried Giedion’s Space, Time and Architecture (1941) / Reyner Banham’s Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960): “discarding cultural load” → technology versus tradition / Kenneth Frampton’s Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995) → tectonics within tradition | Students are required to read all texts assigned for a specific week with a critical eye and write a short response paper on a specific theme. | |
| 3) | MODERNISM W/(O) CULTURE Part II The indigenous house versus the bourgeoisie dwelling / the opposite visions of early modernists towards culture: Gottfried Semper’s anthropologic approach to architecture; Adolf Loos’s underestimation of indigenous cultures and their living habits / uncultured living against Wohnkultur / cultural tours to modern dwellings organized by Loos—Wohnungswanderungen. | ||
| 4) | MODERNISM W/(O) CULTURE Part III The Orientalism in Modernism / cultural contradictions of modern architecture: the Oriental carpet in modernist interiors designed by Loos / a critique of the distinction between the West and the East within modernism: Le Corbusier’s Journey to the East / Bruno Taut’s travel to Japan and Turkey | ||
| 5) | MODERNISM W/(O) CULTURE Part IV The Vernacular, the Anonymous and the Indigenous in Modernism / Bernard Rudofsky’s exhibitions at MOMA: Are Clothes Modern? (1944); Architecture without Architects (1964) / Sibly Moholy-Nagy’s Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture (1957) / Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building (1979) → his argument about the “most beautiful” interior space located in Topkapi Palace | ||
| 6) | PRESENTATIONS and END-OF-UNIT DISCUSSIONS | By the end of three course units, students are required to make a twenty-minute visual presentation on a case-study by analyzing a specific site, a work, a project or an architect’s attitude to modernism and culture and by relating it to the questions and issues raised in lectures and class discussions. | |
| 7) | THE ORDINARY IN ARCHITECTURE Part I The popularization of high modernism in everyday life / Everyday life as a critique of standard modernism(s) in architecture / Theories of everyday life | ||
| 8) | THE ORDINARY IN ARCHITECTURE Part II The distinction between the ordinary, the everyday, and the normative in architecture / representations of these in various scales: from the urban to the domestic. | ||
| 9) | THE ORDINARY IN ARCHITECTURE Part III Critical representations of the ordinary particularly in literature, cinema and visual arts. | ||
| 10) | PRESENTATIONS and END-OF-UNIT DISCUSSIONS | ||
| 11) | MODERNISM AGAINST MODERNISM Part I (Inter)nationalizing Modernism / The forms of architecture which resisted the canonic modernism / Alvar Aalto: the comparison of his work in Finland and abroad | ||
| 12) | MODERNISM AGAINST MODERNISM Part II Critical regionalism / First-World versus Third-World geographies / CIAM (1949): Discussion on “East/West: Architects and Politics” / Vernacular modernism in postwar Turkey / Sedad Hakki Eldem and the nationalization of architectural discourse | ||
| 13) | MODERNISM AGAINST MODERNISM Part III Architecture as a means of communication and exchange: exhibitions, competitions, world fairs / the city or the region as a thematic: IBA-Internationale Bauausstellung versus Aga Khan Awards → architectural versus non-architectural | ||
| 14) | PRESENTATIONS and FINAL DISCUSSIONS | ||
| Course Notes: | Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: a critical history ( Oxford University Press, 1980); Michael K. Hays, “Critical Architecture: between culture and form,” Perspecta, 1984, no.21, p.14-29; Gülsüm Baydar and Wong Chong Thai (eds.) Postcolonial Space(s) (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997); Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture (Horizon Press, 1957). |
| References: | Chapters from other relevant books and selected articles will be compiled in a Course Reader that will be available to students at the beginning of the course. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | % 0 | |
| Laboratory | % 0 | |
| Application | % 0 | |
| Field Work | % 0 | |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
| Quizzes | % 0 | |
| Homework Assignments | 13 | % 20 |
| Presentation | 3 | % 30 |
| Project | 1 | % 30 |
| Seminar | % 0 | |
| Midterms | % 0 | |
| Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
| Final | 1 | % 20 |
| Paper Submission | % 0 | |
| Jury | % 0 | |
| Bütünleme | % 0 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 11 | 3 | 33 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 12 | 156 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework Assignments | 13 | 8 | 104 |
| Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Preliminary Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Paper Submission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Total Workload | 299 | ||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |