Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
MIMY0111		CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS IN ARCHITECTURE	3/0/0	DE		12

Course Goals	To provide/canalize the students to think and discuss different concepts in his/her research field and the other fields critically and deeply.
Prerequisite(s)	none
Corequisite(s)	none
Special Requisite(s)	The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Instructor(s)	Professor Neslihan DOSTOĞLU, Professor Emel Birer, Assoc. Prof. Evren ENGİNÖZ, Assoc. Prof. Yasemin ERKAN YAZICI, Professor Ayhan USTA, Professor Evrim TÖRE, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Gökşin
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule	Day, hours, XXX Campus, classroom number.
Office Hour(s)	Instructor name, day, hours, XXX Campus, office number.
Teaching Methods and Techniques	Lecture and discussion
Principle Sources	Anderson, B. (1983), Imagined Communities / Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Verso   Auge, M. (1992), Non-lieux, Seuil [Yer Olmayanlar, çev.: Turhan Ilgaz, Kesit, 1997].   Banham, R. (1960), Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, The Architectural Press.   Barthes, R. (1983), Semiotics and the City, Arnhem.   Baudrillard, J. (1988), Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster, Polity.   Berman, M. (1982), All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Verso [Katı Olan Her Şey Buharlaşıyor, çev.: Ümit Altuğ ve Bülent Peker, İletişim, 1994].   Debord, G. (1977), Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red/Detroit   Giddens, A. (1990), The Consequences of Modernity, Polity   Harvey, D. (1990), The Condition of Postmodernism, Blackwell   Jencks, C. (1977), The Language of Postmodern Architecture, Academy Editions.   Koolhaas, R. (1994), Delirious New York, Monacelli.   Le Corbusier (1927), The City of To-morrow and Its Planning, Payson & Clarke.   Lefebvre, H. (1991), The Production of Space, Blackwell.   Sennet, R. (1992), The Fall of Public Man, W.W. Norton & Company   Soja, E. (1989), Postmodern Geographies, Verso.   Urry, J. (1995), Consuming Places, Routledge
Other Sources	-

Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	General information and discussion
2. Week	The behavioural process in design
3. Week	Space and globalization
4. Week	Architecture and everyday life
5. Week	Architecture and sustainability
6. Week	The changing perception of the city and space
7. Week	After un-industrialization, the life buoy of the city geography: 'transformation'
8. Week	'Gated-communities' in the socio-spacial context
9. Week	Inclusive approach in design: the principles of universal design
10. Week	Public/social memory, language and architecture
11. Week	Ecology and design
12. Week	Collaboration in architectural design process
13. Week	The shelter needs of disaster victims
14. Week	Parametric design
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	30
Final Exam	1	70

Program Outcomes PO-1 To gain knowledge and understand the socio-economical and spatial components and processes which are both the subjects and the outcomes of an urban design project. PO-2 To gain knowledge and critical awareness about the relations in between urban design and the other disciplines like architecture, urban planning, economy and sociology; and the opportunuties and threats that will arise by these relations. PO-3 Ability to realize an urban design project or a research on urban design in a multidisciplinary process, using both the theoretical and practical knowledge infrastructure, developing new methods and techniques. PO-4 Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process. PO-5 Ability to make research, to analyse and to criticise in the area of academical knowledge and design processes, using the appropriate techniques, producing original results. PO-6 To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design. PO-7 To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design. PO-8 To gain competency to transfer the knowledge gained using a foreign language, both in verbal and visual way, via contemporary computer programmes and techniques. PO-9 To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework. PO-10 To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.

Learning Outcomes LO-1 Knowledge acquisition about the current/recent concepts in architecture LO-2 To comprehend the relations between humanbeing and the cities and spaces LO-3 To comprehend the relations between sustainability, ecology facts and architecture. LO-4 To understand the cognitive process of design. LO-5 The ability to think dialectically and critically

Course Assessment Matrix:

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10