| Course Name | Contemporary Design Discourse |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| IAED 206 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | Developing the means of evaluating, discussing and understanding the contemporary issues in art, design and architecture.Exploring the continuity and interrelation between the various aesthetic and artistic approaches of the 19th and 20th centuries.Understanding the cultural, social and political context of the post Industrial Revolution period and evaluating the contemporary movements of art and design as an integral component of this context |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course focuses on the cultural, social and political context of the postIndustrial Revolution period. Approaches of art, design and architecture that have been influential since the 19th century are discussed and evaluated as an extension of this context |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction & General Outline | |
| 2 | Concepts of Modernity | • Hilde Heynen, “Concepts of Modernity,” in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique (MIT Press, 1999), p.8-14 Additional Reading: • Marshall Berman, “Introduction: Modernity-Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow” in All That is Solid Melts into Air: The experience of Modernity (Penguin Books, 1982) p. 15-36. |
| 3 | Modern Architecture in 19th Century: The Emergence of the Domestic Interior and Arts &Crafts Movement | • Kenneth Frampton, “News from Nowhere: England 1836- 1924,” in Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson: London, 1992), p. 42-56 Additional Reading: • Charles Rice, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity, London, Routledge, 2007 |
| 4 | Constructing the Modern Movement: Art Nouveau, Loos, Vienna Secession, Deutscher Werkbund | • Alan Colquhoun, “Art Nouveau: 1890-1910,” in Modern Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2002), 13-34. Additional Reading: • Hilde Heynen, “Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition,” in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique (MIT Press, 1999), p.8-14 |
| 5 | Early 20th Century In America: Chicago School and Frank Lloyd Wright | • Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson: London, 1992), p. 51-64. |
| 6 | The Avant-gardes: Futurism / Expressionism / New Objectivity / de Stijl / Bauhaus | • Alan Colquhoun, “The Avant-gardes in Holland and Russia,” in Modern Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2002), 109-136. Additional reading: • Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson: London, 1992), p. 123-149. |
| 7 | International Modernism: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto | • Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson: London, 1992), p. 149-161. Additional reading: • Alan Colquhoun, “Return to Order: Le Corbusier and Modern Architecture in France 1920-35” in Modern Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2002), 137-158. |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |
| 9 | Modernist Discourse in Turkey | • Sibel Bozdoğan, Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (University of Washington Press, 2002). |
| 10 | The Ascendancy of Modernism: Critiques in the 1960s | • Habermas, Jurgen; 1998. "Modernity-an incomplete project" in The Anti-Aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture. The New Press: New York; 1-15. |
| 11 | Postmodern Discourse | • Robert Ventury, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (MOMA, 1966). |
| 12 | Critical Debates/ Regionalism | • Colquhoun, Alan, “The Concept of Regionalism,” originally published in Postcolonial Space(s), Gulsum Baydar Nalbantoglu and Wong Chong Thai, ed., (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), 13-23. • Kenneth Frampton, “Critical Regionalism” in Kate Nesbitt, ed., Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), pp. 470-482. (1983) |
| 13 | New Means of Representation | • William Mitchell, “Imagining E-Topia” in Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 297-303. |
| 14 | Environmental Discourse in Architecture | • Simon Guy, Graham Farmer, “Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place of Technology,” Journal of Architectural Education, v. 54, n. 3, 2001, pp. 140-148. |
| 15 | FINAL | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Books listed above, power point presentations and tutorials on the website |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 2 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 65 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 35 | |
| 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 | 16 | 1 | 16 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 2 | 5 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 9 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 12 | |
| Total | 105 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to perform, execute and manage the various responsibilities and duties of an interior architecture and environmental design professional | |||||
| 2 | To be able to recognize, analyze and integrate within their practice the particular local and regional needs and developments of their profession | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups on a national and international level within their profession | |||||
| 4 | To be able to develop, integrate and promote independent critical approaches for their professional practice | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to understand the social and environmental issues and responsibilities of their profession | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able identify, assess and utilize the most up to date research, innovations, trends and technologies | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to consider the national and international standards and regulations of their field | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop the abilities to communicate and present design ideas within visual, oral and textual formats | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to design on a national and international level | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to recognize their own strengths, and develop them within an environment | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of interior architecture and environmental design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise | X | ||||
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