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Program of Architecture (English 30%)

MİM415

ARCHITECTURE AND CONTEXT

Course Code
MİM415
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
2 + 0
ECTS
4
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS4
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Make a historical reading on context debates in architecture and discuss them in the focus of architectural design.
  2. Develop a perspective to evaluate architectural discourse and practice by examining the methods and approaches developed on the physical and social context in architecture.
  3. Develop the ability to read and evaluate architectural projects in relation to their physical and social context.
  4. Learn the architect's methods of transferring contextual knowledge to research and design and use them in architectural design processes.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components-
Course DescriptionThe aim of this course is to convey and discuss the notion of context, which has taken place in architectural discourse and practice throughout history, in the focus of architectural design; to examine the methods and approaches developed on the physical and social context in architecture and to investigate the role of architect in interpreting the contextual knowledge and transferring it to the design.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Architecture and context: introduction and definitions
2nd Week Architecture and context: Pre-modern period
3rd Week Architecture and context: Pre-modern period
4th Week The relationship between city and architecture in the modern and post-modern periods
5th Week The relationship between city and architecture in the modern and post-modern periods
6th Week Classwork on readings
7th Week Context debates in architecture
8th Week Context debates in architecture
9th Week Current context of architecture: Sustainability
10th Week Current context of architecture: Digital Technologies
11th Week Current context of architecture: Adaptive Reuse
12th Week Current context of architecture: Industry 4.0
13th Week Current context of architecture: Circularity
14th Week Current context of architecture: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
15th Week End-of-Term Session & General Evaluation
Recommended or Required ReadingAldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.
Brent Brolin, ?Architecture in Context: Fitting New Buildings with Old?, The Harvard Architecture Review, 2, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981. ?
Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn, ?Why Site Matters?, in Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn (eds), Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, New York: Routledge, 2005.
Christian Norberg- ?Schulz, Genius Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, New York: Rizzoli, 1980. ?
Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter, Collage City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.
George Dodds, ?Architecture as Instauration?, Architectural Research Quarterly, 5, no. 2 (2001). ?
K. Michael Hays, ?Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form?, Perspecta, 21, (1984).
Keith Ray, Contextual Architecture: Responding to Existing Style, New York: McGraw Hill, 1980. ?
Kenneth Frampton, ?Towards A Critical Regionalism: Six Points For An Architecture Of Resistance?, 1983.
Linda Groat, ?Measuring the Fit of New to Old?, Architecture: The AIA Journal, 72, no. 11 (1983). ?
Mark Wigley and Philip Johnson, Deconstructivist Architecture: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
Robert Venturi, ?Context in Architectural Composition?, in Robert Venturi (ed.), Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture. A View from the Drafting Room, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Sandy Isenstadt, ?Contested Contexts?, in Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn (eds), Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, New York: Routledge, 2005.
Stan Allen, ?From Object to Field?, AD Profile 127, Architectural Design, 67, no. 5/6 (1997).
William S. Saunders (ed.), The New Architectural Pragmatism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
  • Case Study
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Quiz 2 10
Presentation of Case Study 1 30
Other 2 20
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 0 0 0
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 6 2 12
Preparation for Final exam 1 25 25
Course hours 14 2 28
Preparation for Midterm exam 0 0 0
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 3 3
Homework
Presentation (including preperation) 1 4 4
Workshop 1 2 2
Term Project Research
Research
Case Study Presentation
Article 4 4 16
Weekly Articles and Resource Research 1 18 18
Total Work Load108
Total Work Load / 30 (h)3.6
ECTS Credit of the Course4
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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