Within the scope of Human, Environment and Spatial Studies, research on human environment and the spatial perception are examined in order to assist architectural design
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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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.)
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The course will be supported with the help of slides and papers. Students are asked to research a subject and expected to present on, according to their determinations.
Principle Sources
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Lang, J., 1987, Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Lynch, K., 1960. The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Lynch, K., 1977. Growing Up in Cities: Studies of the Spatial Environment of Adolescence in Crakow, Melbourne, Mexico City, Salta, Toluca, and Warszawa, The MIT Press, Cambridge, massachusetts, and London, Englend, UNESCO, Paris,
Rapoport, A., 1969, House Form and Culture, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall.
Rapoport, A., 2004, Kültür, Mimarlık Tasarım, Yapı Yayınları, ISBN:9758599526
Norberg-Schulz, C. (1979) Genıus Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture,Rizzoli, Newyork.
Le Corbusier. (1987). The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, The Architecture Press, London.
Tschumi,B. (1994). The Manhattan Transcripts, Academy Editions,NY.
Ünügür,M.,Hacıhasanoğlu,O.,Turgut,H.,(1997).Culture and Space in Home Environment, Globus-Dünya Basınevi, İstanbul.
Norberg-Schulz, C. (1985) The Concept of Dwelling, On the Way to Figurative Architecture, Electa/Rizzoli, Newyork.
Pallasmaa, J. (2011). Tenin Gözleri, YEM Yayın-177, İstanbul.
Baudrillard, J., Nouvel,J., (2011). Tekil Nesneler: Mimarlık ve Felsefe, YEM Yayın-178, İstanbul.
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to course terms and issues
Lecture
2. Week
Researchs on human-environment and space
Lecture
3. Week
Theories on environmental perception 1
Lecture
4. Week
Theories on environmental perception 2
Lecture
5. Week
Changes in public spaces and daily life: Concepts on new housing-business life and transformation of spaces
Lecture
6. Week
Changes of representation in public and physical space: New information transfer, virtual reality, technology, and intelegent spaces
Lecture
7. Week
Mid-term exam
Exam
8. Week
Living in a new metropolitian and spatial organization
Lecture
9. Week
presentation 1
10. Week
presentation 2
11. Week
presentation 3
12. Week
presentation 4
13. Week
presentation 5
14. Week
presentation 6
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
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Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
30
Final Exam
1
40
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
Competence for conducting an original academic/scientific study. (COMPETENCE)
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Learn the theories of environmental perception
LO-2
Investigate the relationship between perception, body and space in new physical media
LO-3
Design the new physical spaces in the context of transformed external factors
LO-4
Investigate the relationship between home-office-space with the context of changes on dailylife order.
LO-5
Becoming an architect who can research and examine architectural design outputs in every situation.
