Urban space materializes in to a place interacted with visual culture. We give spaces meaning by how we represent them, the words we use about them, the stories, texts and the images of them we produce, the values we place on them. Different types of mediums and techniques of modern visual production, from visual and printed media to photography and cinema, come into view as interactive fields in the production of urban space. The course aims at examining these interactions mentioned above and evaluating today’s spatial productions in relation to the modernization process in the 20th century. In general, giving a criticism to the representations of space, it seeks to develop a new understanding on cityscapes and to visualize and depict the urban invisibles through the readings and mappings of urban space that the students work on.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
DOÇ. DR. YASEMİN ERKAN YAZICI
Course Assistant(s)
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Schedule
Tuesday, 10:00:13:00, Ataköy Campus, 1C-04
Office Hour(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. İlke Tekin, Wednesday, 15:00-17:00, Atakoy Campus, 2G-01
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Reading the given texts, urban/spatial analysis and the research on urban space in visual cullture which are prepared by the students are presented, discussed and developed in the course.
Principle Sources
Amoroso, Nadia, 2010. The Exposed City: Mapping The Urban Invisibles. Routledge.
Corner, James; MacLean, Alex, 1996. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. Yale Uni. Press.
Ferriss, Hugh, 2005. The Metropolis of Tomorrow. Dover Publications.
Lynch, Kevin, 1960 (1st edition). The Image of The City. The MIT Press.
Tufte, Edward R., 1990. Envisioning Information. Graphics PR.
Wurman, Richard Saul, 1999. Understanding USA. Rswinch.
Certeau, Michel de, 2008. Gündelik Hayatın Keşfi, Dost Yayınları, İstanbul.
Nora, Pierre, 2006. Hafıza Mekanları, (çev.) Mehmet Emin Özcan, Dost Yayınları, İstanbul.
Crysler, Greig, 2003. Writing Spaces, Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment 1960-2000, Routledge, London.
Markus, Thomas A. And Cameron, Deborah, 2002. The Words Between the Spaces, Buildings and Language. Routledge, London.
Other Sources
Tschumi, Bernard, 1994. The Manhattan Transcripts. Wiley.
Barbara A. and Perliss A., 2006. Invisible Architecture: Experiencing Places through the Sense of Smell. Milano: Skira.
Berger, J., 1972. Ways of Seeing. New York: Penguin Books.
Bloomer, K. C. and Moore, C. W., 1977. Body, Memory and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Cresswell, T., 2006. On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World. London: Routledge, pp.1-25.
Colomina B. ed., 1992. Sexuality and Space. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Gibson, J.J., 1966. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Grosz, E., 1994. Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Henry Dreyfuss Associates, 1974. Body Measurements. Boston: MIT Press.
Hill J. ed., 1998. Introduction in Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User, London: Routledge.
Imrie, R., 2003. Architects’ Conceptions of the Human Body. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 21, pp.47-65.
Merleau-Ponty M., 1964. The Primacy of Perception And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics. J. Edie, ed. USA: Northwestern University Press.
Pallasmaa, J., 2005. The eyes of the skin: Architecture and the senses. London: Wiley‐Academy.
Tschumi, B., 1981. The Manhattan Transcripts. London: Academy Editions.
Tschumi, B., 1996. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge and Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Tschumi, B., 2012. Architecture Concepts: Red Is Not A Color. New York: Rizzoli.
Zumthor, P., 1998. Thinking Architecture. Basel and Boston: Birkhauser.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction
Lecture
2. Week
Modernity, visual culture and representation of urban space
Lecture
3. Week
Visual culture and representation of urban space 1
Presentation and discussion
4. Week
Visual culture and representation of urban space 2
Presentation and discussion
5. Week
Visual culture and representation of urban space 3
Presentation and discussion
6. Week
General discussion and the assignments and explanations
Presentation and discussion
7. Week
Architectural representation in printed media 1
Presentation and discussion
8. Week
Architectural representation in printed media 2
Presentation and discussion
9. Week
General discussion and mid-term evaluation
Presentation and discussion
10. Week
Movie screening 1
Movie screening and discussion
11. Week
Movie screening 2
Movie screening and discussion
12. Week
Movie screening 3
Movie screening and discussion
13. Week
Movie screening 4
Movie screening and discussion
14. Week
Student presentations
Presentation and discussion
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Attendance
14
20
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the fields of architectural theory, design methods and design philosophy. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-2
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the fields of social and cultural geography and on the concepts of space and time. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-3
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the field of built environment and human/society relationship within the framework of human-environment-behaviour. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-4
Ability to direct the experience gained from architectural design and other knowledge areas to new fields and generate strategies. (ABILITY)
PO-5
Ability to conduct research, examination, interpretation; to use adequate techniques and produce original results in the field of academic knowledge and design process. (ABILITY)
PO-6
Ability to use the theoretical and practical knowledge of architectural design referring to undergraduate competence. (ABILITY)
PO-7
Competence for analyzing and interpreting architectural products within the framework of architectural concepts. (COMPETENCE)
PO-8
Competence for relating architectural design, architectural theory and building construction with social sciences and humanities such as psychology, philosophy and political economy. (COMPETENCE)
PO-9
Competence for presenting a work - made individually or in a group- systematically, in a foreign language, using the required computer programs, verbal, written and visual. (COMPETENCE)
PO-10
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-11
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-12
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-13
Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-14
To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-15
To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-16
To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-17
To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
PO-18
Understanding time management and control, cost planning and control, risk management, approaches, models and techniques to improve organizational / management effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-19
Understanding classic and contemporary management theories and human relationship in management to improve management effectiveness in beginning, design and construction processes of a project.
PO-20
Ability to direct the experience gained from construction management and technology to new fields and ability to generate strategies.
PO-21
Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to construction management and technology to the beginning of project, design and construction processes.
PO-22
Competence for analyzing, interpreting and establish relations within the framework of construction management and technology with the project and construction process.
PO-23
Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of construction management and technology, and generating original solutions.
PO-24
Understanding the basic principles of structural systems, development and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-25
Understanding managerial tasks of architect and approaches, models and techniques to improve effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-26
Understanding the relationship between sub systems which forms entire building and building technology, to ensure effective and correct use of a complex building from the beginning of design process to the usage, and ability to be able to criticize them.
PO-27
Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to architectural engineering, to the beginning of design and construction processes of a project.
PO-28
Competence for producing a comprehensive architectural project from the beginning of schematic design to detailed system development phase (structural and environmental systems, safety and fire protection, partition systems, building envelop, building service systems).
PO-29
Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of architectural engineering, and generating original solutions.
PO-30
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about two different scale monument and site conservation.
PO-31
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-32
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-33
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-34
To gain cognitive and practice knowledge for proficiency in practice about monument and site conservation.
PO-35
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-36
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-37
To have ability for performing research, survey and critical evaluation on academic knowledge and design process, using approprate technics and producing unique outcomes.
PO-38
To have ability for carrying out individual study on monument and site conservation.
PO-39
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-40
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
I. Evaluate urban space in its socio-cultural context.
LO-2
II. Examine the representations of urban space with reference to the formation of visual cultural layers.
LO-3
III. Have knowledge about modern city culture in 20th century.
LO-4
IV. Discuss deeply on the representations of urban space and develop their critical reading skills.
LO-5
V. Comprehend interdisciplinary interactions in architectural production process and develop creative and critical thinking, and different point of views in architecture.
LO-6
VI. Prepare an urban research / mapping / visualization through the readings presented in the lectures and their own cultural/historical researches.
