Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

ARCH058

Course Name:

Architectural Criticism

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator:

Dr. Öğr. Üy. ZEHRA TONBUL

Course Lecturer(s):

Zehra Tonbul

Course Assistants:

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

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

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2
Program Outcomes

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

Program Outcomes

Level of Contribution

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