| 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 |
| HTC6304 | Space Politics and Culture | 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 |
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| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SUNA ÇAĞAPTAY |
| Course Objectives: | Primarily focusing on the architectural examples of the modern Middle East, the course raises concerns related to the political (mis/re)use of spaces, structures, and signs. By contextualzing each architectural case in its specific sociopolitical history, this course asks the following questions: How is architecture used as a site of power and resistance in politically charged societies? Why is architecture-as-representation so central to the making of coercive narratives about modern identities and civil order? How do these shifting uses of the landmark leave their imprint on architectural form, function, and meaning? Our aim will be to analyze how architecture both endorses political discourse and, by contrast, sustains social resistance. Above all, what can modern Muslim states and societies inform us about the politics of space and identity? |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who are taking this course: will analyze a selected examples of public spaces from Islamic history of different periods. will examine how the built environment and public spaces are used as an ideological tool by the leaders of modern nation-states starting from the 192s and 1930s, as well as the rise modernity in the 1950s and 1960s, and the urban revolution of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkey. Students will also analyze the following concepts: destruction of monuments or public spaces as political acts, the gendered space, and today’s architectural implication on politics and vise versa. |
| Week 1 Reading ‘Islamic Space’ Grube, E. ‘What is Islamic Architecture?’, Architecture of the Islamic World, ed. Michell (NY, 1978) 11-14 Week 2 Elsewhere Invented: The West, Orientalism, and the Muslim world Said, E. ‘Introduction’, Orientalism (New York, 1978) 1-23 Colonizing Space: French North Africa Week 3 Imperializing Space: British South Asia Chakravarty, S. ‘Architecture and Politics in the Construction of New Delhi’, Architecture + Design 2/2 (January/February 1986) 76-92. Week 4 High Modernism Imposed: Reza Shah’s Iran & Kemalist Turkey Scott, J. ‘Authoritarian High Modernism’, Seeing like a State (New Haven, 1998) 87-132 Anderson, B. ‘Census, Map, Museum’, Imagined Communities (London, 1991) 163-185 Bozdogan, S. ‘The Predicament of Modernism in Turkish Architectural Culture’, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (Seattle, 1997) 133-154 Week 5 Modernity ‘Gone Native’: Theorizing ‘Vernacular’ & ‘Spiritual’ Architecture Al-Sayyad, N. ‘From Vernacularism to Globalism: the Temporal Reality of Traditional Settlements’, Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review 7/1 (1995) 13-25 Fathy, Hassan. Architecture for the Poor (Chicago, 1973) Ardalan, Nader. The Sense of Unity (Chicago, 1973) Week 6 Space of Modernity: Nehru’s Chandigarh & Dhaka’s National Assembly Ksiazek, S. ‘Architectural Culture in the Fifties: Louis Kahn and the National Assembly Complex in Dhaka’, JSAH (December 1993) 416-435 Week 7 Revolution in/of Space: “Live from Tehran” (ABC documentary, 1999) Dabashi, H. & P. Chelkowski. ‘From the Myth of Revolution to the Art of Persuasion’, Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran (London, 2000) Week 8 Space Revolts: The Urban Revolution of Iran, 1978-79 Grigor, T. ‘Monument Performed, Space Claimed: from Shahyad to Azadi’, (Cambridge, 2000) Week 9 Space Claimed: Khomeini’s Iran and Resistance to an ‘Islamic’ Revolution and The Gezi Rally Adelkhah, F. ‘A New Public Space for Islam?’ Being Modern in Iran (New York, 2000) 18-29, 105-113 Week 10: Cluttering Space: Asad’s Syria Wedeen, L. ‘Killing Politics: Official Rhetoric and Permissible Speech’, Ambiguities of Domination (Chicago, 1999) 32-49 Week 11 Battling the Same Space: Israeli/Palestinian struggle over al-Aqsa Monk, D. ‘Introduction’, An Aesthetic Occupation: the Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Durham, 2002) 1-13 Osman, M. ‘An Interview with Daniel Bertrand Monk’, Thresholds 25 (Cambridge, Fall 2002) 20-23 Week 13 Spatial Megalomania: Saddam’s Iraq Michalski, S. ‘Iraq in the 1980s’, Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage (UK, 1998) 195-200 Al-Khalil, S. The Monument: Art, Vulgarity & Responsibility in Iraq (London, 1991) 68-77, 116-134 Week 14 Movie ‘Orient’ Talking: “The Children of Heaven” (director Majid Majidi, Tehran, 1997) Salman Rushdie. ‘Imaginary Homelands’, Imaginary Homelands (NY, 1982) 9-21 |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| Course Notes: | Bianca, S. ‘Basic Principles of Islam and their Social, Spatial and Artistic Implications’, Urban Form in the Arab World (London, 2000) 23-47 Dickie, J. ‘Allah and Eternity: Mosques, Madrasas and Tombs’, Architecture of the Islamic World, ed. Michell (NY, 1978) chapter 1 Grabar, O. ‘The Architecture of Power: Palaces, Citadels, and Fortifications’, Architecture of the Islamic World, ed. Michell (NY, 1978) chapter 2 |
| References: | Bianca, S. ‘Basic Principles of Islam and their Social, Spatial and Artistic Implications’, Urban Form in the Arab World (London, 2000) 23-47 Dickie, J. ‘Allah and Eternity: Mosques, Madrasas and Tombs’, Architecture of the Islamic World, ed. Michell (NY, 1978) chapter 1 Grabar, O. ‘The Architecture of Power: Palaces, Citadels, and Fortifications’, Architecture of the Islamic World, ed. Michell (NY, 1978) chapter 2 |
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| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 20 | 40 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Midterms | 5 | 25 | 125 |
| Paper Submission | 1 | 20 | 20 |
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| Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Total Workload | 253 | ||
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