Architectural Design (Master) (with Thesis)
Master TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 QF-EHEA: Second Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 7

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code: ICM5028
Course Name: Speculative Space Research
Semester: Fall
Spring
Course Credits:
ECTS
6
Language of instruction: Turkish
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Master TR-NQF-HE:7. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:Second Cycle EQF-LLL:7. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üy. MUSTAFA MORTAŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Mustafa Mortaş
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: The aim of this course is to explore and decipher the unpredictable visionary spatialities of personalized imagination, deviating from the linearity of historicism within the context of criticality and creativity. In this framework, the emergence and formation processes of speculative spatial design practices will be examined to understand, interpret, and critically discuss the causality of their design and conceptualization states. Furthermore, the course aims to uncover the theoretical and reflective traces embedded within the unbuilt representations of speculative spatial designs, facilitating their interpretation and opening them up for critical discourse.
Course Content: This course focuses on analyzing and deconstructing cultural, artistic, design, and architectural contexts that speculate on spatial possibilities without an intent to build, starting from the 20th century. The course begins with the spatial investigations of creative architectural representation in the post-World War I period, including axonometric avant-garde, montage, and surreal imagery of speculative spaces. Moving to the post-World War II era, it examines anti-city utopias, metabolist spatialities, body-space speculations, machinic and heterarchical spaces, as well as prosthetic and biotechnological spatial speculations. These topics are critically discussed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the historical and intellectual foundations of speculative spatial design, both theoretically and conceptually.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Generating Ideas at the Intersection of Criticism, Creativity, and Space
2) Understanding the Causality of Theoretical Speculations
3) Analyzing Spatial Architectonics and the Dynamics of Speculations
4) Critically Interpreting Spatial Speculation Beyond Historical Linearity
5) Acquiring Knowledge of Visionary Spatial Design History

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Program Presentation
2) Space . Classical Subject . Perspective . Single Focality . Governability . Consciousness
3) Phenomenology . Intentionality . Image as a Mode of Consciousness . Subject-Object Reversal
4) Axonometric Avant-Garde in Spatial Representation . Montage . Multi-Focality . Endless Flânerie
5) Surreal Space . Spaces of Desire . Subject-Object Dissolution . Spatiality of the Irrational
6) Speculative Spatialities of Anti-City Utopian Architecture . Metabolist Spatiality
7) Speculative Body-Spatialities . Visionary Body-Space Investigations
8) Midterm Presentation Submission
9) Machinic and Heterarchical Spaces . Anti-Gravity Spatiality
10) Prosthetic and Biotechnological Spatial Speculations
11) Final Paper Diagrammatic Presentation and Discussions – Session 1
12) Final Paper Diagrammatic Presentation and Discussions – Session 2
13) Final Paper Diagrammatic Presentation and Discussions – Session 3
14) Final Paper Diagrammatic Presentation and Discussions – Session 4

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Ackerman, J. S. (2012). Introduction. In M. Scolari (Aut.), Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti Perspective (pp. vii-xiii). Cambridge: The MIT Press. Agrest, D. I. (2000). Representation as Articulation Between Theory and Practice. In S. Allen (Aut.), Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation (pp. 163-178). Amsterdam: The Gordon and Breach Publishers. Allen, S. (2000). Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation. Amsterdam: The Gordon and Breach Publishers. Artun, N. A. (2014). Mimarlığı Baştan Çıkarmak. İçinde N. A. Artun (Der.), Sürrealizm-Mimarlık: Mekân Sanatı (s. 11-57). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları Aydınlı, S., Kürtüncü, B. (2014). Paralaks oda. İstanbul: Cenkler Matbaacılık. Avanoğlu, B. (Der.) (2021). Şiir Mimarlık: Binanın İhlali. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Bachelard, G. (2012). Düşlemenin poetikası (A. Tümertekin, Çev.). İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları. Bachelard, G. (2018). Mekânın poetikası. İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları. Becker, J. (2014). Drawn In: The Rendered Visions of Lebbeus Woods. In J. Becker, J.D. Fletcher (Eds.), Lebbeus Woods: Architect, Drawing Papers 114 (pp. 10-15). New York: The Drawing Center. Betsky, A. (2011). In A Galaxy Closer Than We Think: Bryan Cantley's Marginal Architecture. In B. Cantley (Aut.), Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture (pp. 40-45). Wien: Springer-Verlag. Bleeckere, D. S. & Gerards, S. (2017). Narrative Architecture: A Designer's Story. London: Routledge. Burden, E. (2000). Visionary Architecture: Unbuilt Works of the Imagination. New York: McGraw-Hill. Cantley, B. (2011). Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture. Wien: SpringerVerlag. Cantley, B. (2016a). Deconstructive text(s), Journal of Architectural Education, 70 (1), 60-61. Coates, N. (2012). Narrative Architecture. West Sussex: Wiley. Colquhoun, A. (2009). Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern. In K. Frampton (Ed.), Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism (pp. 292-301). London: Black Dog Publishing. Dinçer, D. (2017). Düşleri Biriktirmek. XXI Mimarlık Tasarım ve Mekân Dergisi. Erişim: 29 Aralık 2019, https://xxi.com.tr/i/dusleri-biriktirmek Dolin, B. (2005). Matta’s Lucid Landscape. In T. Mical (Ed.), Surrealism and Architecture (pp. 53-59). New York: Routledge. Fletcher, J. D. (2014). Lebbeus Woods: An Architecture of Dialogue and Resistance. In J. Becker and J.D. Fletcher (Eds.), Lebbeus Woods: Architect, Drawing Papers 114 (pp. 16-21). New York: The Drawing Center. Frascari, M. (2007). Introduction: Models and Drawings - The Invisible Nature of Architecture. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 1- 7). New York: Routledge. Graafland, A. (2017). Eleştirellik Üzerine. İçinde A.K. Sykes (Ed.), Yeni Bir Gündem İnşa Etmek: Mimarlık Kuramı 1993-2009 (s. 369-390), (G. Akyürek, Çev.). İstanbul: Küre Yayınları. Grillner, K. (2007). In the Corner of Perception: Spatial Experience in Distraction. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 270-284). New York: Routledge. Heynen, H. (2011). Mimarlık ve modernite: Bir eleştiri (N. Bahçekapılı ve R. Öğdül, Çev.). İstanbul: Versus Kitap. Hopkins, D. (2004). Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mari, B. (1999). Preface. In M. Wigley (Aut.), Constant’s New Babylon: The HyperArchitecture of Desire (pp. 5-6). Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. Martin, R. (2017). Neye Karşı Eleştirel? Ütopyacı Bir Gerçekçiliğe Doğru. İçinde A.K. Sykes (Ed.), Yeni Bir Gündem İnşa Etmek: Mimarlık Kuramı 1993-2009 (s. 323-336), (G. Akyürek, Çev.). İstanbul: Küre Yayınları. Matsumoto, R. (2016). Speculative Morphology of Recurring Terrains. In L. Allen, L.C. Pearson (Eds.), Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (pp. 192-195). London: UCL Press. Mortaş, M. (2022). Mimari temsilde eleştiri oluş farklanmalarını sorunsallaştırmak (Doktora tezi). İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, İstanbul. Mucci, M. (2016). The Fall and the Rise: Lebbeus Woods’ Metaphorical and Narrative Drawings. In L. Allen, L.C. Pearson (Eds.), Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (pp. 155-161). London: UCL Press. Nigianni, B. (2007). Architecture as Image-Space-Text. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 253-260). New York: Routledge. Ojalvo, R. (2011). Sürrealizm ve Mimarlık: Mimarlığın Öteki Yüzünü Aramak. Eskop Dergi. Erişim: 26 Aralık 2018, http://www.eskop.com/skopbulten/surrealizm-yasiyor-surrealizm-vemimarlikmimarligin-oteki-yuzunu-aramak/433 Panofsky, E. (2013). Perspektif: Simgesel bir biçim (Y. Tükel, Çev.). İstanbul: Metis Yayınları Pérez-Gómez, A. (2007). Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 11- 22). New York: Routledge. Pérez-Gómez, A. (2018). Surrealism and Architectural Atmosphere. In N. Spiller (Ed.), Celebrating the Marvellous: Surrealism in Architecture, Architectural Design, 88 (2), 25-29. Pollmeier, K. (2014). El Lissitzky’s Multilayer Photographs: A Technical Analysis. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved July 18, 2020, from http://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/essays/Pollmeie r.pdf. Rion, G. (2021). Nigel Coates: Gamma Tokyo, 1985. Frac Centre-Val de Loire. Retrieved June 10, 2021, from https://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-andarchitecture-collection/coates-nigel/gammatokyo317.html?authID=232&ensembleID=674 Scolari, M. (2012). Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti Perspective. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
References: Ackerman, J. S. (2012). Introduction. In M. Scolari (Aut.), Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti Perspective (pp. vii-xiii). Cambridge: The MIT Press. Agrest, D. I. (2000). Representation as Articulation Between Theory and Practice. In S. Allen (Aut.), Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation (pp. 163-178). Amsterdam: The Gordon and Breach Publishers. Allen, S. (2000). Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation. Amsterdam: The Gordon and Breach Publishers. Artun, N. A. (2014). Mimarlığı Baştan Çıkarmak. İçinde N. A. Artun (Der.), Sürrealizm-Mimarlık: Mekân Sanatı (s. 11-57). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları Aydınlı, S., Kürtüncü, B. (2014). Paralaks oda. İstanbul: Cenkler Matbaacılık. Avanoğlu, B. (Der.) (2021). Şiir Mimarlık: Binanın İhlali. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Bachelard, G. (2012). Düşlemenin poetikası (A. Tümertekin, Çev.). İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları. Bachelard, G. (2018). Mekânın poetikası. İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları. Becker, J. (2014). Drawn In: The Rendered Visions of Lebbeus Woods. In J. Becker, J.D. Fletcher (Eds.), Lebbeus Woods: Architect, Drawing Papers 114 (pp. 10-15). New York: The Drawing Center. Betsky, A. (2011). In A Galaxy Closer Than We Think: Bryan Cantley's Marginal Architecture. In B. Cantley (Aut.), Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture (pp. 40-45). Wien: Springer-Verlag. Bleeckere, D. S. & Gerards, S. (2017). Narrative Architecture: A Designer's Story. London: Routledge. Burden, E. (2000). Visionary Architecture: Unbuilt Works of the Imagination. New York: McGraw-Hill. Cantley, B. (2011). Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture. Wien: SpringerVerlag. Cantley, B. (2016a). Deconstructive text(s), Journal of Architectural Education, 70 (1), 60-61. Coates, N. (2012). Narrative Architecture. West Sussex: Wiley. Colquhoun, A. (2009). Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern. In K. Frampton (Ed.), Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism (pp. 292-301). London: Black Dog Publishing. Dinçer, D. (2017). Düşleri Biriktirmek. XXI Mimarlık Tasarım ve Mekân Dergisi. Erişim: 29 Aralık 2019, https://xxi.com.tr/i/dusleri-biriktirmek Dolin, B. (2005). Matta’s Lucid Landscape. In T. Mical (Ed.), Surrealism and Architecture (pp. 53-59). New York: Routledge. Fletcher, J. D. (2014). Lebbeus Woods: An Architecture of Dialogue and Resistance. In J. Becker and J.D. Fletcher (Eds.), Lebbeus Woods: Architect, Drawing Papers 114 (pp. 16-21). New York: The Drawing Center. Frascari, M. (2007). Introduction: Models and Drawings - The Invisible Nature of Architecture. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 1- 7). New York: Routledge. Graafland, A. (2017). Eleştirellik Üzerine. İçinde A.K. Sykes (Ed.), Yeni Bir Gündem İnşa Etmek: Mimarlık Kuramı 1993-2009 (s. 369-390), (G. Akyürek, Çev.). İstanbul: Küre Yayınları. Grillner, K. (2007). In the Corner of Perception: Spatial Experience in Distraction. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 270-284). New York: Routledge. Heynen, H. (2011). Mimarlık ve modernite: Bir eleştiri (N. Bahçekapılı ve R. Öğdül, Çev.). İstanbul: Versus Kitap. Hopkins, D. (2004). Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mari, B. (1999). Preface. In M. Wigley (Aut.), Constant’s New Babylon: The HyperArchitecture of Desire (pp. 5-6). Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. Martin, R. (2017). Neye Karşı Eleştirel? Ütopyacı Bir Gerçekçiliğe Doğru. İçinde A.K. Sykes (Ed.), Yeni Bir Gündem İnşa Etmek: Mimarlık Kuramı 1993-2009 (s. 323-336), (G. Akyürek, Çev.). İstanbul: Küre Yayınları. Matsumoto, R. (2016). Speculative Morphology of Recurring Terrains. In L. Allen, L.C. Pearson (Eds.), Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (pp. 192-195). London: UCL Press. Mortaş, M. (2022). Mimari temsilde eleştiri oluş farklanmalarını sorunsallaştırmak (Doktora tezi). İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, İstanbul. Mucci, M. (2016). The Fall and the Rise: Lebbeus Woods’ Metaphorical and Narrative Drawings. In L. Allen, L.C. Pearson (Eds.), Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (pp. 155-161). London: UCL Press. Nigianni, B. (2007). Architecture as Image-Space-Text. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 253-260). New York: Routledge. Ojalvo, R. (2011). Sürrealizm ve Mimarlık: Mimarlığın Öteki Yüzünü Aramak. Eskop Dergi. Erişim: 26 Aralık 2018, http://www.eskop.com/skopbulten/surrealizm-yasiyor-surrealizm-vemimarlikmimarligin-oteki-yuzunu-aramak/433 Panofsky, E. (2013). Perspektif: Simgesel bir biçim (Y. Tükel, Çev.). İstanbul: Metis Yayınları Pérez-Gómez, A. (2007). Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture. In M. Frascari, J. Hale, B. Starkey (Eds.), From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture (pp. 11- 22). New York: Routledge. Pérez-Gómez, A. (2018). Surrealism and Architectural Atmosphere. In N. Spiller (Ed.), Celebrating the Marvellous: Surrealism in Architecture, Architectural Design, 88 (2), 25-29. Pollmeier, K. (2014). El Lissitzky’s Multilayer Photographs: A Technical Analysis. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved July 18, 2020, from http://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/essays/Pollmeie r.pdf. Rion, G. (2021). Nigel Coates: Gamma Tokyo, 1985. Frac Centre-Val de Loire. Retrieved June 10, 2021, from https://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-andarchitecture-collection/coates-nigel/gammatokyo317.html?authID=232&ensembleID=674 Scolari, M. (2012). Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti Perspective. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) To see architecture as a transdisciplinary intellectual and critical field
2) To develop the ability to express architectural thought with appropriate terminology, verbally and in writing.
3) To learn and use the necessary tools to share the results of their research and current developments in architectural design with different groups in different platforms.
4) To develop the ability to discuss current design problems and propose creative solutions.
5) To follow, understand and apply current research methods in architectural design and to produce new research methods.
6) To evaluate new technical/technological developments in terms of architecture, to recognize hybrid applications and creative practices and to develop a critical perspective.
7) To develop approaches to transform new mathematical thinking into practice in architecture.
8) To be able to independently design and conduct research processes based on data collection, interpretation and announcement in the field of architectural design, within the framework of ethical values and rules
9) To be able to independently carry out a work that requires expertise in architectural design, to be a leader in environments that require solving problems related to architectural design.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) To see architecture as a transdisciplinary intellectual and critical field
2) To develop the ability to express architectural thought with appropriate terminology, verbally and in writing.
3) To learn and use the necessary tools to share the results of their research and current developments in architectural design with different groups in different platforms.
4) To develop the ability to discuss current design problems and propose creative solutions.
5) To follow, understand and apply current research methods in architectural design and to produce new research methods.
6) To evaluate new technical/technological developments in terms of architecture, to recognize hybrid applications and creative practices and to develop a critical perspective.
7) To develop approaches to transform new mathematical thinking into practice in architecture.
8) To be able to independently design and conduct research processes based on data collection, interpretation and announcement in the field of architectural design, within the framework of ethical values and rules
9) To be able to independently carry out a work that requires expertise in architectural design, to be a leader in environments that require solving problems related to architectural design.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 1 % 10
Homework Assignments 1 % 40
Final 1 % 50
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 42
Study Hours Out of Class 15 90
Presentations / Seminar 2 6
Total Workload 138