Course Code: | ARCH082 | ||||
Course Name: | Vocabulary of Modern Architecture | ||||
Semester: | Fall | ||||
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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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 | ||||
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Course Objectives: | The course aims to provide students with conceptual, historical and linguistic tools, with which they can read modern architecture. |
Course Content: | The course will cover theoretical background to the emergence of modern architectural notions within 19th and 20th century discourses. The course will undertake discussion of these notions through examples of modern architecture and trace the history of their uses through the course of 20th and 21st centuries. The course covers readings of texts on modern architecture. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Ability to read, discuss and interpret modern architecture. 2) Literary and metaphorical thinking of architecture 3) Knowledge of texts on modern architecture 4) Knowledge of modern architects and buildings |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Modern in Architecture How does architecture communicate? Art of Literary Thinking | |
2) | An Architectural Dictionary | Zevi, Bruno. 1994. The modern language of architecture. New York: Da Capo Press. Pp. 3-6 (Introduction) |
3) | Form, Gestalt, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright | Le Corbusier. (1923). Vers une architecture. Paris: Les Editions G. Cres et cie. Trans. 1927. Towards a new architecture. Chicago: Harcourt. pp. 1-8 (Argument) pp. 21- 64 (Mass, Surface, Plan) |
4) | Space, Perception and Mies van der Rohe | Zevi, Bruno. 1957. Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture. New York: Horizon Press. Pp. 22-44. |
5) | Context: Genius Loci, Place, Situation | Norberg-Schulz, Christian. 1979. Genius loci: towards a phenomenology of architecture. New York: Rizzoli. |
6) | User, Function, Functionalism, Flexibility | De Zurko, Edward Robert. 1957. Origins of functionalist theory. N.Y: Columbia Univ. Press. pp.3-14 |
7) | Expression, Daniel Liebeskind, Frank Gehry | Mitias, Michael H. 1994. Philosophy and architecture. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Olms. Pp. 85-106 (Expression in Architecture) |
8) | Midterm | |
9) | Presentation proposals Exemplary readings | Atmospheres Zumthor, Peter. 2006. Atmospheres : architectural environments, surrounding objects. Basel: Birkhäuser. Read pp. 19-63 |
10) | Movement, Sequence, Scenography, Bernard Tschumi | Tschumi, Bernard. 1996. Architecture and Disjunction. Boston: MIT Press. Read pages 154-168 (Sequences). |
11) | Façade, Pastiche, Sign-- Robert Venturi | Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Perspecta, Vol. 9. (1965), pp. 17-56. Please read pp. 18-21. |
12) | Student Presentations and Discussion I | |
13) | Student Presentations and Discussion II | |
14) | Student Presentations and Discussion III |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Forty, Adrian. 2004. Words and buildings: a vocabulary of modern architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson. |
References: | Required Course Materials De Zurko, Edward Robert. 1957. Origins of functionalist theory. N.Y: Columbia Univ. Press. pp.3-14 Le Corbusier. (1923). Vers une architecture. Paris: Les Editions G. Cres et cie. Trans. 1927. Towards a new architecture. Chicago: Harcourt. pp. 1-8 (Argument) pp. 21- 64 (Mass, Surface, Plan) Mitias, Michael H. 1994. Philosophy and architecture. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Olms. Pp. 85-106 (Expression in Architecture) Norberg-Schulz, Christian. 1979. Genius loci: towards a phenomenology of architecture. New York: Rizzoli. Please read the 2nd topic "2. The Structure of Place", pp. 11-18 and produce a critical text/interpretation of 300-500 words in length. (Times New Roman, 11, spacing 1.5) Tschumi, Bernard. 1996. Architecture and Disjunction. Boston: MIT Press. Read pages 154-168 (Sequences). Venturi, Robert, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Perspecta, Vol. 9. (1965), pp. 17-56. Zevi, Bruno. 1957. Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture. New York: Horizon Press. Pp. 22-44. Zevi, Bruno. 1994. The modern language of architecture. New York: Da Capo Press. Pp. 3-6 (Introduction) Zumthor, Peter. 2006. Atmospheres : architectural environments, surrounding objects. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 19-63 |
Course Learning Outcomes | 1 |
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Program Outcomes |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 20 |
Homework Assignments | 9 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 28 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 75 |