ISTINYE UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| Architecture (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code: | ARCH058 | ||||
| Course Name: | Architectural Criticism | ||||
| Semester: |
Spring Fall |
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| Course Credits: |
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
| Course Condition: | |||||
| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. ZEHRA TONBUL | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Zehra Tonbul | ||||
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Course Objective and Content
| Course Objectives: | The course aims to provide students with critical and linguistic tools to evaluate architecture. |
| Course Content: | The course will introduce the students to critical thinking in architecture. The first part of the course will provide the students with a language to discuss and evaluate architecture. The second part of the course will cover readings on different approaches to role and function of architecture. A third part will present students with critical thinking in architecture, both through projects and texts. The students are then expected to develop critical approaches to their chosen architectural project, on which they will produce presentations and a final paper. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Developing critical thinking in architecture 2) Ability to read, discuss and interpret architecture. |
Course Flow Plan
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction What are the criteria that we criticize architecture ? Can architecture be critical ? | |
| 2) | Lecture: Vocabulary of Architecture | |
| 3) | Lecture: The Gray Zone of Modernity | Reading: Hays, K. Michael. 1984. "Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form". Perspecta. 21: 14. |
| 4) | Aisthesis- Image Making- | Reading: Pallasmaa. 1996. The eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses. London: Academy. 71-77 Rasmussen, S. E. (1959). Experiencing architecture. London: Chapman & Hall. (pp.9-34) |
| 5) | Aisthesis -The architecture of writing in bodies | Reading: Lynn, Greg. 1998. “Probable Geometries, The Architecture of Writing in Bodies”, in Folds, bodies & blobs: collected essays. [Bruxelles]: La Lettre volée.79-94. “The Folded, The Pliant, and the Supple”, 109-133. “Body matters”, 135-156. “Blobs”, 157-168. “Forms of Expression,” 223-134. CORBO, STEFANO. 2020. FROM FORMALISM TO WEAK FORM: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman. [S.l.]: ROUTLEDGE. 87-99. |
| 6) | Semantics | Reading: Barthes, Roland. 1990. The Eiffel tower and other mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang. |
| 7) | Poetics of Architecture | Reading: Bachelard, Gaston. 1994. The poetics of space: the classic look at how we experience intimate places. Trans. Maria Jolas, Boston: Beacon Press. 211-231. |
| 8) | Phenomenology/Place | Reading: Toyo Ito (1992), Vortex and Current: On Architecture as Phenomenalism", Mallgrave 2008, 539-541. Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias. |
| 9) | Architectural Criticism Text 1: The Museum of XXIst Century Arts | Reading: Gabriele Mastrigli and Gabrielle Mastrigli, “The Theater of the City: The Museum of XXIst Century Arts”, Log , Winter / Spring 2012, No. 24, pp. 103-109 |
| 10) | Architectural Criticism Text 2 and Alvaro Siza | Reading: Otávio Leonídio , “Álvaro Siza Vieira: Another Void”, Log, No. 16 (Spring/Summer 2009), pp. 27-38. |
| 11) | Ethics of Architecture Critical Issues Venice Architecture Biennale | Reading: Elisa Iturbe, Architecture and the Death of Carbon Modernity, Log, Fall, 2019, 10-24. Lai, J. (2012). Citizens of no place: An architectural graphic novel. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Dehaene, M., & Cauter, L. . (2015). Heterotopia and the city: Public space in a postcivil society. London: Routledge. 3-6. |
| 12) | Student Presentations | |
| 13) | Student Presentations | |
| 14) | Student Presentations |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Hays, K. Michael. 1984. "Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form". Perspecta. 21: 14. Barthes, Roland. 1990. The Eiffel tower and other mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang. Elisa Iturbe, Architecture and the Death of Carbon Modernity, Log, Fall, 2019, 10-24. Lynn, Greg. 1998. “Probable Geometries, The Architecture of Writing in Bodies”, in Folds, bodies & blobs: collected essays. [Bruxelles]: La Lettre volée.79-94. “The Folded, The Pliant, and the Supple”, 109-133. “Body matters”, 135-156. “Blobs”, 157-168. “Forms of Expression,” 223-134. Jacques Ranciere, “The future of the Image”, Sergei M. Eisenstein: Montage And Archıtecture (Ca. 1938) Boym, Svetlana. 2008. Architecture of the off-modern. New York: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the study of American architecture. Bachelard, Gaston. 1994. The poetics of space: the classic look at how we experience intimate places. Trans. Maria Jolas, Boston: Beacon Press. Pallasmaa. 1996. The eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses. London: Academy. 71-77 |
| References: | Hanno Rauterberg and Lara Mehling, “Waves of Optimism: First Impressions of The Elbphilharmonie”, Log , Winter 2017, No. 39 (Winter 2017), pp. 20-30 Gabriele Mastrigli and Gabrielle Mastrigli, “The Theater of the City: The Museum of XXIst Century Arts”, Log , Winter / Spring 2012, No. 24, pp. 103-109 Otávio Leonídio , “Álvaro Siza Vieira: Another Void”, Log, No. 16 (Spring/Summer 2009), pp. 27-38. CORBO, STEFANO. 2020. FROM FORMALISM TO WEAK FORM: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman. [S.l.]: ROUTLEDGE. 87-99. |
Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship
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| 1) She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 2) She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 3) She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 4) Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 5) She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 6) She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |||||||||||||||
| 7) In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |||||||||||||||
| 8) To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |||||||||||||||
| 9) She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |||||||||||||||
| 10) Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |||||||||||||||
| 11) Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 12) She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |||||||||||||||
| 13) She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 14) She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 15) Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Course - Learning Outcome Relationship
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | 3 |
| 2) | She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | 3 |
| 3) | She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | 3 |
| 4) | Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | 3 |
| 5) | She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | 3 |
| 6) | She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |
| 7) | In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |
| 8) | To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |
| 9) | She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |
| 10) | Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |
| 11) | Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | 3 |
| 12) | She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |
| 13) | She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | 3 |
| 14) | She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | 3 |
| 15) | Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. | 3 |
Assessment & Grading
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 1 | % 20 |
| Homework Assignments | 9 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
| total | % 100 | |
Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 28 |
| Midterms | 2 | 5 |
| Total Workload | 75 | |