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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Spring
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Required
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Group Work
Q&A
Excursion / Observation
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Student will be able to discuss the social and historical processes that shape urban spaces.
  • Student will be able to evaluate architecture in the broader context of its relationship with the urban environment.
  • Student will be able to discuss the various themes and issues that pertain to urban environments.
  • Student will be able to analyze the mutual relationship between architecture and urban space.
  • Student will be able to develop an understanding of the various approaches to urban design from an architectural viewpoint.
Course Description

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction to the course Documentary: Ekümenopolis
2 What is a city? Documentary: Urbanized, part 1
3 Urban form Documentary: Urbanized, part 2
4 Typology and morphology of urban space Documentary: Human Scale
5 Urban Facades, streets, squares Documentary: Contested Streets
6 Image of the urban environment Documentary: Strolling around a City
7 Experiencing/Understanding urban space Documentary: My Playground
8 MIDTERM I Workshop
9 Identity of cities Documentary: Architecture, Trace of the City
10 Life in Urban spaces Documentary: Social Life of Small Urban Places
11 Presentations of the workshop and term project
12 Definitions & Dimensions of Urban Design
13 Sustainability and Urban Futures Documentary: Manufactured Landscapes & Feedback on term projects
14 Urban utopias Reading: Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century, pp. 320.
15 Review of the Semester  
16 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks
Suggested Readings/Materials Cullen, Gordon. The Concise Townscape London: Butterworth Architecture, 1971. Eisner et. al. The Urban Pattern. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold,1993. Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped London: Thames & Hudson, 1992. Lynch, Kevin The Image of The City, Cambridge: The Technology Press, 1960. Trancik, Roger. Finding Lost Space, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986. Bell, Daniel A. and de-Shalit, Avner. The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011. Whyte, Willam, The Public Face of Architecture, New York: The Free Press, 1987. Kostof, Spiro. The City Assembled, London: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century, London: MIT Press, 1991.

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
16
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
1
20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
30
Final Exam
1
30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
20
70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

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
15
2
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
1
8
Project
1
10
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
2
12
Final Exams
1
    Total
120

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

Ability to apply theoretical and technical knowledge in architecture.

 X
2

Ability to understand, interpret and evaluate architectural concepts and theories.

 X
3

Ability to take on responsibility as an individual and as a team member to solve complex problems in the practice of architecture.

 

 X
4

Critical evaluation of acquired knowledge and skills to diagnose individual educational needs and to direct self-education.

 X
5

Ability to communicate architectural ideas and proposals for solutions to architectural problems in visual, written and oral form.

 X
6

Ability to support architectural thoughts and proposals for solutions to architectural problems with qualitative and quantitative data and to communicate these with specialists and non-specialists.

 X
7

Ability to use a foreign language to follow developments in architecture and to communicate with colleagues.

 X
8

Ability to use digital information and communication technologies at a level that is adequate to the discipline of architecture.

 X
9

Being equipped with social, scientific and ethical values in the accumulation, interpretation and/or application of architectural data.

 X
10

Ability to collaborate with other disciplines that are directly or indirectly related to architecture with basic knowledge in these disciplines.

 X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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