-The course will consist of theoretical presentations. The presentations will be carried out as seminars, providing a discussion environment to enable students to participate in the course.
Principle Sources
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Benevolo, L., The Origins of Modern Town Planning, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
Dostoğlu, N. T., “Ütopya, Kent ve Mimarlık Üzerine Düşünceler”, Arredamento Mimarlık, 5: 73-76, 2001.
Fishman, R., Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1982.
Kostof, S., The City Assembled, The Elements of Urban Form Through History, London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Manuel, F. E. ve Manuel, F. P., Utopian Thought in the Western World, Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979
Rossi, A., The Architecture of The City, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1982.
Rowe, C. ve Koetter, F., Collage City, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1978.
Other Sources
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Alexander, C., Isikawa, S., Silverstein, M., A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, New York: Oxford University Press,1977.
Broadbent, G., Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design, London and New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold International, 1995.
Choay, F., The Modern City: Planning in the 19th Century, New York: George Braziller, 1969.
Evans, R., "Bentham's Panopticon", Architectural Association Quarterly, v.3, n.2, April/July 1971.
Fourier, C., Design for Utopia: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier, New York: Schocken Books, 1971.
Gottschalk, S. S., Communities and Alternatives, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company Inc., 1975.
Hardy, D., Alternative Communities in Nineteenth Century England, Londra ve New York: Longman Group Ltd., 1979.
Henket, H.-J. & Heynen, H., Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002.
Lynch, K., The Image of The City, Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1960.
Mumford, L., "Utopia, the City and the Machine", Daedalus 94, Bahar 1965.
Owen, R., A New View of Society, 3. Makale, Londra: Richard Taylor and Co., 1813.
Vidler, A., "News from the Realm of No-where", Oppositions, n.1, Eylül 1973.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Explanation of the Content and Aims of the Course
Presentation and Discussion in Class
2. Week
Definition and Historical Development of the Concept of Utopia
Presentation and Discussion in Class
3. Week
Architectural And Urban Utopias in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods
Presentation and Discussion in Class
4. Week
Architectural And Urban Utopias in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods
Presentation and Discussion in Class
5. Week
Industrial Revolution and Utopias During the 19th Century
Presentation and Discussion in Class
6. Week
Industrial Revolution and Utopias During the 19th Century
Presentation and Discussion in Class
7. Week
Modern Architecture and 20th Century Utopias
Presentation and Discussion in Class
8. Week
Modern Architecture and 20th Century Utopias
Presentation and Discussion in Class
9. Week
Modern Architecture and 20th Century Utopias
Presentation and Discussion in Class
10. Week
Modern Architecture and 20th Century Utopias
Presentation and Discussion in Class
11. Week
The Effects of Utopias on Contemporary Architecture and Urban Planning
Presentation and Discussion in Class
12. Week
The Effects of Utopias on Contemporary Architecture and Urban Planning
Presentation and Discussion in Class
13. Week
Planning, Programming and Designing for the Future
Presentation and Discussion in Class
14. Week
Planning, Programming and Designing for the Future
Presentation and Discussion in Class
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
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
To gain the ability to read, speak and write effectively.
LO-2
To gain information about urban and architectural processes in history and to be able to make interpretations,
LO-3
To develop explicit and direct questions, to use abstract concepts for expressing thoughts, to be able to evaluate opposite ideas, to be able to reach conclusions which are well inquired and to test these with similar criteria and standarts,
LO-4
To comprehend the concept of culture which comprises all material and spiritual accumulation of society, and its importance in architectural design through various applications of housing spaces in the world,
LO-5
To become aware and comprehend the methods for designing livable and qualified housing areas and units for various income groups,
LO-6
To understand the concept of utopia which constitutes a crucial dimension of architecture and urban planning, since architectural design and urban planning processes are projections for the future,
LO-7
To be able to plan, program and design for the future.
