It is aimed to examine, to investigate, to define and to study the conservation problems of traditional methods and techniques of architectural and structural elements of various civilizations in Anatolia. Apart from the size, material and elaborate workmanship of monumental architecture, the modest examples of vernacular architecture will be studied, focusing on the analysis of construction techniques and the design parameters.
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Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, Observation and investigation on-site
Principle Sources
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Seçkin, N., Topkapı Sarayının Biçimlenmesine Egemen Olan Tasarım Gelenekleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma, (1453-1755), A.K.D.T.Y.K. Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı Yayınları: 163, Ankara, 1998.
Seçkin, N., Çırağan Sarayı: Tarihçesi, Mimarisi ve Yenilenmesi, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, yayınlanmamış Doçentlik çalışması, İstanbul, 1998.
Seçkin, N., “Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında Geç Dönem bir Osmanlı Sarayı: Çırağan Sarayı”, İstanbul Dergisi, Tarih Vakfı Yayını, İstanbul, Sayı: 36, Ocak 2001, s.12-19.
Seçkin, N., “Topkapı Sarayı Birinci Avlu Onarımları”, Mimarist, Mimarlık Kültürü Dergisi, sayı:26 (Kış 2007), TMMOB, Mimarlar Odası İstanbul Büyükkent Şubesi, 2007, İstanbul, s.75-78.
Ahunbay, Z., “Mimar Sinan Yapılarında Kullanılan Yapım Teknikleri ve Malzeme”, Mimarbaşı Koca Sinan Yaşadığı Çağ ve Eserleri, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü Yayını, İstanbul, 1988, s. 531-538.
Aktuğ, İ, “16. Yüzyılda Kullanılan Bazı İnşaat Malzemeleri ve Kullanım Yerleri”, II. Uluslararası Türk-İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Kongresi, İ.T.Ü., 28 Nisan-2 Mayıs 1986, 16. Yüzyılda Türk ve İslam Bilim ve Teknolojisi, Bildiriler, C.1, İ.T.Ü. Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Araştırma Merkezi Yayını, 1986, s. 71-76.
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Yavuz, A.T., "Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisinin Yapı Özellikleri", "Selçuklu Çağında Anadolu Sanatı", (2002), s.271-290.
Günay, R., Türk Ev Geleneği ve Safranbolu Evleri, YEM Yayın, İstanbul, 1998.
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Tayla, Hüsrev. Geleneksel Türk Mimarisinde Yapı Sistem ve Elemanları, TAÇ Vakfı Yayını, C.1, İstanbul, 2007.
Batur, A., “Osmanlı Camilerinde Almaşık Duvar Üzerine”, Anadolu Sanatı Araştırmaları, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Mimarlık Tarihi ve Rölöve Kürsüsü, C.2, S.2, İstanbul, 1970, s. 135-208.
Barkan, Ö. L., (1972, 1979), Süleymaniye Cami ve İmareti İnşaatı (1550-1557), cilt I ve II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları.
Kuban, D., (1981), "Notes on Building Technology of the 18th Century: The Building of the Mosque of Nuruosmaniye at Istanbul, According to 'Tarih-i Camii Şerif-i Nur-u Osmani", I. Uluslararası Türk - İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Kongresi, cilt V, İstanbul, s. 271-293.
Other Sources
Tanyeli, G., (2000), ”18. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Mimarlığında Yapım Süreci: Laleli Külliyesi Örneği”, Celâl Esad Arseven Anısına Sanat Tarihi Semineri Bildirileri, 7-10 Mart 1994, İstanbul, s. 317-326.
Aksoy, Pınar. “Taş İşleme Sanatı”, Kargir Yapılarda Koruma ve Onarım, 28-29 Eylül 2009, KUDEB Yayını, İstanbul, 2009.
Dal, Murat; Angı, Serkan; Eyüboğlu, Rahmi. “İstanbul’daki Bazı Tarihi Yapılarda Kullanılan Yapı Taşlarının Kökenleri ve Getirildikleri Yerler”, Mimarlıkta Malzeme, Sayı: 6, İstanbul, 2007, s.72-76.
Yergün, U. ve Çiftçi, A. “Imported Construction Materials and Techniques in 19th Century Otoman Architecture”, 6th International Conference, Structural Analysis of Historical Construction, Preserving Safety and Significance, 2-4 July 2008, Bath, England.
Tekinmirza, Ferhan. Dolmabahçe Sarayı’nın İç Süslemelerinde Kullanılan Teknikler ve Mekanlardaki Dağılımı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sanat Tarihi Anabilim Dalı, Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, İstanbul, 2008
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction: The importance of traditional building techniques in restoration.
Lecture
2. Week
Vault: Materials, building techniques, forms, components and decorations.
Lecture
3. Week
Dome: Materials, building techniques, forms, components and decorations.
Lecture
4. Week
Constructive devices: Squinch, pendetive, Turkish triangle; materials, building techniques, forms, components and decorations.
Lecture
5. Week
Structural items: Lentil, window and door frames, and arches; materials, building techniques, forms, components and decorations.
Lecture
6. Week
Arches: Materials, building techniques, forms, components and decorations.
Lecture
7. Week
Site survey
Site visit
8. Week
Use of metal elements in traditional buildings
Lecture
9. Week
Lead covering, and its quantity survey
Lecture
10. Week
Use of gypsum in traditional buildings.
Lecture
11. Week
Site survey
Site visit
12. Week
Materials and building techniques in the 19th century Ottoman architecture.
Lecture
13. Week
Traditional decoration techniques.
Lecture
14. Week
Unit price analysis and description of the General Directorate of the Pious Foundations.
Presentation of homeworks.
Lecture, presentations
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
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Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
50
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about two different scale monument and site conservation.
PO-2
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about basic issues of conservation which are restoration theories, international modern conservation principles, national and international legal and organizational regulations and recording cultural heritage.
PO-3
To have advenced level of knowledge and realization about design principles of new addition to the historic building and infill building in historic settlement, measured drawing, restitution and restoration projects of historic building.
PO-4
To be informed and own critical awareness for utilizing from national and international examples of conservation of historical sites that are rapidly disappearing, preparing analytical surveys, preparing morphology and typology study and evaluating the data reunited from these studies.
PO-5
To gain cognitive and practice knowledge for proficiency in practice about monument and site conservation.
PO-6
To apply and integrate the knowledge, conception and problem solving ability about monument and site conservation with the knowledges from architectural history, city planning, urban design, archeology, civil engineering and such discipline areas and to apply within interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and upper-disciplinary contexts.
PO-7
To develop new data and methods on monument and site conservation and to have ability for merging the gained knowledge with the knowledge from the other discipline areas.
PO-8
To have ability for performing research, survey and critical evaluation on academic knowledge and design process, using approprate technics and producing unique outcomes.
PO-9
To have ability for carrying out individual study on monument and site conservation.
PO-10
To have ability for making a decision in analysis stage about monument and site conservation area, to lead projects/academic studies, to produce a work in a group by taking individual responsibility and to have ability for leading and changing complex processes.
PO-11
To have ability for transfering the gained knowledge by oral, written and visual techics in a foreign language, by using modern computer aided programs and techniques.
PO-12
To have ability for preparing a unique academic/scientific study, presenting and discussing in a dialectical frame.
PO-13
To have ability for taking strategic decisions about monument and site conservation projects and concerning ethic values while producing unique solutions.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To have information on traditional materials and building techniques referred to different civilizations in Anatolia.
LO-2
Recognition of the traditional building systems used in Anatolia and to be able to do the analogy of the traditional buildings dated to same or different periods.
LO-3
To understand the importance of the craftmanship at the traditional building systems.
LO-4
To have the ability of the recognition, comprehension and assessment of conservation problems in traditional building systems.
LO-5
To have the information on proper restoration techniques for solving the conservation problems observed on the traditional building systems.
