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CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS IN ARCHITECTURE

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
MIMY0111 CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS IN ARCHITECTURE 12/0/0 DE 12
Course Goals
To provide/orient 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, PROF. DR. Emel Birer, Assoc. Prof. Evren ENGİNÖZ, DOÇ. DR. Yasemin ERKAN YAZICI, Professor Ayhan USTA, PROF. DR. Evrim TÖRE, DOÇ. DR. Asiye Akgün Gültekin, Assist. Prof. Dr. Emre Arslan, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ömer Saatçioğlu, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Gökşin
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule Friday,11.00, Ataköy Campus
Office Hour(s) Due to the request
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-1Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the fields of architectural theory, design methods and design philosophy. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-2Having 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-3Having 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-4Ability to direct the experience gained from architectural design and other knowledge areas to new fields and generate strategies. (ABILITY)
PO-5Ability to conduct research, examination, interpretation; to use adequate techniques and produce original results in the field of academic knowledge and design process. (ABILITY)
PO-6Ability to use the theoretical and practical knowledge of architectural design referring to undergraduate competence. (ABILITY)
PO-7Competence for analyzing and interpreting architectural products within the framework of architectural concepts. (COMPETENCE)
PO-8Competence for relating architectural design, architectural theory and building construction with social sciences and humanities such as psychology, philosophy and political economy. (COMPETENCE)
PO-9Competence 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-10To 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-11To 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-12Ability 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-13Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-14To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-15To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-16To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-17To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
PO-18Understanding 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-19Understanding classic and contemporary management theories and human relationship in management to improve management effectiveness in beginning, design and construction processes of a project.
PO-20Ability to direct the experience gained from construction management and technology to new fields and ability to generate strategies.
PO-21Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to construction management and technology to the beginning of project, design and construction processes.
PO-22Competence for analyzing, interpreting and establish relations within the framework of construction management and technology with the project and construction process.
PO-23Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of construction management and technology, and generating original solutions.
PO-24Understanding the basic principles of structural systems, development and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-25Understanding managerial tasks of architect and approaches, models and techniques to improve effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-26Understanding 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-27Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to architectural engineering, to the beginning of design and construction processes of a project.
PO-28Competence 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-29Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of architectural engineering, and generating original solutions.
PO-30To have advenced level knowledge and realization about two different scale monument and site conservation.
PO-31To 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-32To 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-33To 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-34To gain cognitive and practice knowledge for proficiency in practice about monument and site conservation.
PO-35To 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-36To 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-37To have ability for performing research, survey and critical evaluation on academic knowledge and design process, using approprate technics and producing unique outcomes.
PO-38To have ability for carrying out individual study on monument and site conservation.
PO-39To 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-40To have ability for taking strategic decisions about monument and site conservation projects and concerning ethic values while producing unique solutions.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1Knowledge acquisition about the current/recent concepts in architecture
LO-2To comprehend the relations between humanbeing and the cities and spaces
LO-3To comprehend the relations between sustainability, ecology facts and architecture.
LO-4To understand the cognitive process of design.
LO-5The ability to think dialectically and critically
Course Assessment Matrix:
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