| Course Name | Visuality and Architecture |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARCH 350 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The students will be introduced to visual methods and tools as a means to tackle spatial information and visual communication in architecture. The class will facilitate working across diverse visual media and scales; introduce visualization means to read and represent architectural space; form and interpret geographical, architectural and textual information for spatial analysis. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course is organized as two sessions. Each week the 2-hour session is “lecture-based” and will cover tips on model photography techniques, basic instruction in page formatting and graphic design methods with a visual presentation plus discussions on examples; and other 1-hour session is “laboratory-based” and consists of assignments to be completed in-class. |
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| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | X | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to Course | |
| 2 | Visualizing Architecture: Working Across Diverse Media & Scales | Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination. Branko Mitrovic, University of Virginia Press, 2013. |
| 3 | Visualizing Information: Forming Content & Sketching with Data | Assignment # I “Data Humanism, the Revolution will be Visualized”, Giorgia Lupi, 2017. Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal. Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec, Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. |
| 4 | An Architecture of Bricolage: Visualizing Content with Mixed Media | Assignment # II Collage City. Colin Rowe, The MIT Press, 1984. |
| 5 | Architectural Diagramming | Assignment # III The Manhattan Transcripts. Bernard Tschumi, Wiley, 1994. |
| 6 | Architectural Photography: Reading Space through Images | Assignment # IV Learning From Las Vegas. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, The MIT Press, 1977. |
| 7 | What Maps Tell Us?: Maps as Spatial Visualizations | Assignment # V Mapping Istanbul, Pelin Derviş, & Meriç Öner (Eds.), Garanti Galeri, 2009. |
| 8 | Project I - Submission | |
| 9 | Forming Visual Dossier | Tutorials for digital representation techniques |
| 10 | Curating Visual Content: Publication as the Visual Medium | Tutorials for digital representation techniques |
| 11 | Exhibiting Architecture: Displaying Visual Content | Tutorials for digital representation techniques |
| 12 | Project Work Session | Project Overview |
| 13 | Project Work Session | Project Overview |
| 14 | Project Work Session | Project overview |
| 15 | Review od the semester | |
| 16 | Project II - Submission |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Collage City. Colin Rowe, The MIT Press, 1984, ISBN: 9780262180863. Design Studies: A Reader. Hazel Clark & David Brody (Eds.), Berg Publishers, 2003, ISBN: 9781847882363. Learning From Las Vegas. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, The MIT Press, 1977, ISBN: 9780262220200. Mapping Istanbul, Pelin Derviş, & Meriç Öner (Eds.), Garanti Galeri, 2009, ISBN: 9789944731164. Notations: Diagram & Sequences. Bernard Tschumi, Artifice Books on Architecture, 2014, ISBN: 9781908967572. Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal. Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec, Princeton Architectural Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781616897147. S, M, L, XL. Rem Koolhass, Bruce Mau and Hans Werlemann, Monacelli Press, 1997, ISBN: 9781885254863. The Manhattan Transcripts. Bernard Tschumi, Wiley, 1994, ISBN: 9781854903815. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 5 | 25 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 65 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 7 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 0 | ||
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 5 | 4 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 21 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 89 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to offer a professional level of architectural services. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to take on responsibility as an individual and as a team member to solve complex problems in the practice of design and construction. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to understand methods to collaborate and coordinate with other disciplines in providing project delivery services.
| X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to understand, interpret, and evaluate methods, concepts, and theories in architecture emerging from both research and practice. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to develop environmentally and socially responsible architectural strategies at multiple scales. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to develop a critical understanding of historical traditions, global culture and diversity in the production of the built environment. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply theoretical and technical knowledge in construction materials, products, components, and assemblies based on their performance within building systems. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to present architectural ideas and proposals in visual, written, and oral form through using contemporary computer-based information and communication technologies and media. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to demonstrate a critical evaluation of acquired knowledge and skills to diagnose individual educational needs and direct self-education skills for developing solutions to architectural problems and design execution. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to take the initiative for continuous knowledge update and education as well as demonstrate a lifelong learning approach in the field of Architecture. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Architecture and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1) | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X | ||||
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