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
HTC6303 Architecture, Space and Gender 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 : Assoc. Prof. NİLAY ÜNSAL GÜLMEZ
Course Objectives: This course provides the background knowledge for students to orient themselves in contemporary theoretical feminist approaches to architecture. For this aim, the course includes a critical overview of feminist history in relation to both domestic space and built environment in a broder sense. The gendered analysis of the built environment in different scales and developing conceptual and innovative proposals for the gendered problem areas are the main focus of interest.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Bu dersi tamamlayan öğrenci

1. Mimarlık ve mekanın tarihini eleştirel/feminist bir bakış açısısı ile yeniden değerlendirir.

2. Tasarım yoluyla ayrımcılığın tarihsel gelişimine yönelik bağlamsal farkındalık geliştirir

3. Yapılı-çevrenin cinsiyetlendirilmiş (toplumsal cinsiyet kavramları üzerinden) analizini yapar

4. Mimarlığa dair teorik bilgisini zenginleştirecek eleştirel içgörü geliştirir ve bağlı olarak yapılı çevreyi farklı ölçeklerde bu çerçevede değerlendirir.

Course Content

Within the scope of the course the concept of "gender"; the relations of body, space and gender; feminist movements from past to present and their impacts on domestic space and built environment and contemporary feminst theories will be examined.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) İntroduction to Gender Jane Rendell, 2000. “Introduction: “Gender, Space” in Gender, Space, Architecture, Routledge.
2) A historical overview of feminist movements/theories Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski, 2009. Excerpts from Feminist Theory: A reader, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Press
3) Body and Gender Diane Agrest, 1991. Architecture from Without: Body, Logic and Sex, Architecture from Without, MIT Pres. Mark Wigley, 1992. Untitled: The Housing of Gender in Sexuality and Space. Princeton Architectural Press. Beverly Gordon, 2008. Women’s Domestic Body in Intimus, Wiley.
3) A historical overview of feminist movements/theories Wendy Kolmar and Frances Bartkowski, 2009. Excerpts from Feminist Theory: A reader, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Press
5) Body and Gender Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore, 2010. Excerpts from Gendered Bodies, Feminist Perspectives, Oxford University Press
6) Negotiations on domestic space and dichotomies Hilda Heynen, 2005. Modernity and Domesticity: tensions and contardictions in Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge. Gülsüm Baydar, 2005. Figures of Woman in Comtemporaray Architectural Discourse in Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge.
7) Negotiations on domestic space and dichotomies Beatriz Colomina, 1992. The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism in Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press. Zeynep Çelik, 1992. Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers in The Sex of Architecture, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Doreen Massey, 2000. Space, Place and Gender in Gender Space Architecture, Routledge
8) Presentations
9) Gendered space and built environment Spain, Daphne, 1992. Excerpts from Gendered Spaces, The University of North Carolina Press
10) Contemporary (poststructuralist) feminist theories Luce Irigaray, 2000. The Sex which is Not One in Gender Space Architecture, Routledge. Helene Cixous, Keith Cohen, Paula Cohen, 1976. “The laugh of Medusa”, Signs, Chicago University Press
11) contemporary (poststructuralist) feminist theories Monique Wittig, 1992. Excerpts from the Straight Mind and Other Essays, Beacon Press Judith Butler, 2000. Excerpts from “Subversive Bodily Acts” in Gender Space Architecture, Routledge.
12) Feminism and Cinema: transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities Film secreening Hillary Radner and Rebecca Stringer (ed),2011. Excerpts from Feminism in the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema, Routledge.
13) Queer Theory Katarina Bonnevier, 2005. A Queer Analysis of Eileen Gray’s E.1027 in Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge. Judith Butler, 2004. Excerpts from Undoing Gender, Routledge.
14) Evaluation of the Semester and Discussion

Sources

Course Notes: gerektiğinde verilir given when it is necessary
References: 1.Rendell, Jane. Ed., 2000. Gender Space Architecture, London and New York:Routledge. 2.Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, Leslie Kanes Weisman (ed.), The Sex of Architecture, 1996, New York : Harry N. Abrams 3.Weisman, L. K., Discrimination by design: a feminist critique of the man-made environment, Leslie Kanes Weisman, 1992, Urbana : University of Illinois Press. 4.Fausch, D. (ed.) , 1994. Architecture, in fashion, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 5.Salvaggio, R. (1983), Theory and Space, Space and Woman, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol 7, No. 2 pp 261-282 6.Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson (ed.), 1996. Architecture and Feminism. Princeton Architectural Press,NY, Pp. 1-38 esp.6-7. 7.Sophie Watson&Catherine Gibson (ed.) Postmodern Cities and Spaces, Blackwell: Oxford UK. & Cambridge US, Cambridge. 8. Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (ed.), 2001, Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 9.Colomina, B., (1996) Privacy and Publicity, MIT Press, Massachusetts. 10.Colomina, B., (1992) The Split Wall:Domestic Voyeurism, Sexuality and Space, Princeton. 11. Grozs, E. (2001). Architecture from the Outside. Essays on Virtual and Real Space, MIT Press. 12. Rendell J., Penner B., Borden, I. (ed.) , 2005, Gender Space Architecture, Routledge. 13. Heynen, H. and Baydar G. (ed.) 2005 . Negotiating Domesticity. Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, Routledge. 14. Rosner, V., 2005. Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life, Columbia University Press.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 30
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments % 0
Presentation 1 % 30
Project % 0
Seminar % 0
Midterms % 0
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 40
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 42
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship (Work Placement)
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 80
Presentations / Seminar 7 32
Project
Homework Assignments
Quizzes
Preliminary Jury
Midterms
Paper Submission
Jury
Final 9 84
Total Workload 238

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution