MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ARC5426 Turkish Architecture I Fall 3 0 3 12
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖKSUN AKYÜREK ALTÜRK
Course Objectives: This course aims to provide a general historical perspective of the architectural field in Turkey starting with the transitional period from late Ottoman Empire to the Republican era. Accordingly, the evaluation, comparison and discussion of not specific buildings and architects but a wider view of the context-bound processes of architectural production in a chronological order, will be the main target of this course.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1.Identify main course of the architectural production in Turkey in the last century and its evolution as a professional discipline.
2.Grasp the multiplicity of its actors, problems and processes.
3.Recognize the processes of urbanization in Turkey throughout the twentieth century.
4.Compare and relate different conditions of architectural productions in different periods of time.
5.Get familiar with the related literature of architecture and urbanization in Turkey.

Course Content

This course basically aims to bring forth the key issues related with the theoretical and the actual productions in the architectural field of Turkey, with a critical perspective. Accordingly, in this course a wide range of problems will be interrogated and discussed in a chronological yet thematic order, most of which also intersect and interact with the actual dynamics of society, politics, economy and culture both in national and global level.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction; How to define the content of a "Turkish Architecture"? How to liberate its content from its cultural limitations?
2) The national identity of any architecture in question. Baydar, Gülsüm. (2004), "The Cultural Burden of Architecture," Journal of Architectural Education, 57: 19–27.
3) Architectural Context of the Late Ottoman Period: Last century of the empire and its architecture(s).
4) Shifting paradigms-Transition to the Turkish Republic and the birth of a new architectural era Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 1, Architecture of Revolution, 17-48. -Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 2, Building for the Modern Nation State, 49-80.
5) Architecture of the house - Living in a modern house/family/city Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 3, The Modern House, 81-104.
6) Post-war architecture in Turkey Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 4, Populist Democracy and Post-war Modernism, 105-138.
7) Architecture and the city Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 5, Housing in the Metropolis, 140-170.
8) Architecture and the State Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 6, Architecture under Coups d'État, 171-202.
9) Student presentations
10) Architecture and the question of postmodernity Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 7, Postmodern Landscapes in Post-Kemalist Turkey, 203-234.
11) City/Housing/Spontaneity Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 8, The Illegal City and New Residential Segregation, 235-263.
12) Turkish "Starchitects" Bozdoğan & Akcan, Turkey, Chapter 9, The 'Young Turk Architects' of Globalisation, 264-297.
13) The Istanbul case Çağlar Keyder, Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local, Boston: Rowman&Littlefield, 1999, pp.1-31.
14) Student presentations
15) Preparation of the term paper
16) Submission of the final paper

Sources

Course Notes: Will be announced weekly.
References: Sibel Bozdogan, Esra Akcan, Turkey: Modern Architectures in History, Reaktion Books, 2012

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments 5 % 20
Presentation 1 % 30
Project % 0
Seminar % 0
Midterms % 0
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final % 0
Paper Submission 1 % 40
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 100
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 0
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 39
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship (Work Placement)
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 13 78
Presentations / Seminar 1 8
Project
Homework Assignments 2 8
Quizzes
Preliminary Jury
Midterms
Paper Submission 1 18
Jury
Final
Total Workload 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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