COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name
Modernity in Spatial Production
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
ARCH 503
Fall/Spring
3
0
3
7.5
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
Second Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives To introduce seminal texts, pivotal debates and fundamental concepts of the relation between modernity and architecture and to provide a common ground of discussion for the students on chosen topics of that relation.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • The student will be able to become familiar with the pivotal texts of the relation between modernity and architecture.
  • The student will be able to know how fundamental concepts of modernity emerged and advanced.
  • The student will be able to read the significance of major upheavals in the social and political life starting from 18th and 19th Centuries reaching into the contemporary society in terms of architecture.
  • The student will be able to perceive the field of modern architecture within a broader cultural field, understood as the product of political, economic, social and artistic forces.
  • The student will be able to analyze the effects of architectural practices per se on modernity in culture and social life critically.
Course Description This course focuses on the transformative consequences of modernity in architectural spaces and how the latter per se shaped modernity in culture and social life. It critically explores this complex relation by means of interdisciplinary concepts. Rather than a chronological structure, the course is based on the thematic organization of these crucial concepts in order to unravel the broader context of modernity and architecture.
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Course Category

 Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
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
2 Introduction to the Concepts of Modernity, Modernization and Modernism in Architecture Readings: • Heynen, H. (1999). Architecture Facing Modernity: Concepts of Modernity, in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London): 8-14. • Whyte, I. B. (2004). Ch3: Modernity and architecture, in M. Hvattum & C. Hermansen (ed.) Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, (Routledge: London and New York), 42-55. Homework on Readings
3 Space-Time Conception in Modern Architecture Readings: • Heynen, H. (1999). Constructing the Modern Movement: Space, Time and Architecture: The Canon of Modern Architecture, in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London): 38-41. • Giedion, S. (1977). The New Space Conception: Space-Time, in Space Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, 5th edition, (USA: Harvard University Press): 430-433. Homework on Readings
4 Individuality and the Modern City Readings: • Frisby, D. (2004). Ch16: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, A prehistory of modernity, in M. Hvattum & C. Hermansen (ed.) Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, (Routledge: London and New York), 271-291. • Simmel, G. (1969). The Metropolis and Mental Life, in R. Sennett (ed.) Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall): 47-60. Homework on Readings
5 The Idea of Progress and Mechanization of the Modern Society Readings: • Hvattum, M. (2004). Ch8: ‘A complete and universal collection’ Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition, in M. Hvattum & C. Hermansen (ed.) Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, (Routledge: London and New York), 271-291. • Wright, F. L. (1901). The Art and Craft of the Machine, in W. Braham, J. A. Hale and J. S. Sadar (ed.) Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, (USA and Canada: Routledge): 1-14. Homework on Readings
6 Functionalism in Modern Architecture Readings: • Adorno, T. (1997). Functionalism Today, in N. Leach (ed.) Rethinking Architecture: A reader in cultural theory, (London and New York: Routledge): 4-18. • Heynen, H. (1999). Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition, in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London): 75-96. Homework on Readings
7 Mimesis and Representation in Modern Architecture Readings: • Vesely, D. (2004). Ch6: Modernity and the Question of Representation, in M. Hvattum & C. Hermansen (ed.) Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, (Routledge: London and New York), 81-100. • Heynen, H. (1999). Mimesis in Architecture, in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London): 192-218. Homework on Readings
8 Formal Expression in Modern Architecture Readings: • Whyte, I. B. (2004). Ch15: The Expressionist Utopia, in M. Hvattum & C. Hermansen (ed.) Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, (Routledge: London and New York), 256-271. • Bloch, E. (1997). Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament, in N. Leach (ed.) Rethinking Architecture: A reader in cultural theory, (London and New York: Routledge): 41-49. • Heynen, H. (1999). Modernism as a Breaking Point within the Capitalist System, in Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London): 125-128 Homework on Readings
9 Ideology and Style in Modern Architecture Readings: • Eggener, K. L. (2006) Nationalism, Internationalism and the ‘Naturalisation’ of Modern Architecture in the United States, 1925–1940, National Identities, 8:3, 243-258. • Frampton, K. (2000). Ch24: Architecture and the State: Ideology and Representation 1914-43, in Modern Architecture: A Critical History, (London: Thames & Hudson): 210-223. Homework on Readings
10 Third World and Colonial Modernities Readings: • Lu, D. (2011). Ch1: Introduction: architecture, modernity and identity in the Third World, in D. Lu (ed.) Third World Modernism: Architecture, development and identity, (USA and Canada: Routledge): 1-28. • Pyla, P. I. (2007). Hassan Fathy Revisited: Postwar Discourses on Science, Development, and Vernacular Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 60, no. 3: 28-39. Homework on Readings
11 Regional and Vernacular Modernities Readings: • Lejeune, J-F. (2010), The Modern and the Meditterranean in Spain, in J-F. Lejeune and M. Sabatino (ed.) Modern Architecture and the Meditterranean Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities, (London and New York: Routledge): 65-94. • Moreira, F. D. (2006). Lucio Costa: Tradition in the Architecture of Modern Brazil, National Identities, 8:3, 259-275. Homework on Readings
12 Pluralism, Capitalism and Postmodern Architecture Readings: • Harvey, D. (1989). Ch 4: Postmodernism in the city: architecture and urban design, in The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, (Cambridge, Oxford: Blackwell): 66-99. • Jameson, F. (1997). The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism & The Constraints of Postmodernism in N. Leach (ed.) Rethinking Architecture: A reader in cultural theory, (London and New York: Routledge): 225-242.
13 Term Project Student Presentations
14 Term Project Student Presentations
15 Term Project Student Presentations
16 Term Project Student Presentations
Course Notes/Textbooks
Suggested Readings/Materials • Braham, William and Jonathan A. Hale, eds. Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. • Conrads, Ulrich, ed. Programmes and Manifestoes on 20th century Architecture. Trans. Michael Bullock. London: Lund Humphries, 1970. • Curtis. Wılliam J. Modern Architecture sınce 1900s. Third edition. London; New York: Phaidon, 2006. • Frampton, K. Modern Architecture: A Critical History, London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. • Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990. • Heynen, H. (1999). Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London. • Jean-François Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino, ed. Modern Architecture and the Meditterranean Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities, London and New York: Routledge, 2010. • Leach, Neil, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London; New York: Routledge, 1997. • Lu, Duanfang, ed. Third World Modernism: Architecture, development and identity, USA and Canada: Routledge, 2011. • Hvattum, M. & Hermansen, C. ed. Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city, Routledge: London and New York, 2004.

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
16
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
11
55
Presentation / Jury
1
15
Project
1
20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
29
100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
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
16
6
96
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
11
5
Presentation / Jury
1
6
Project
1
20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
Final Exams
    Total
225

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

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

To be able to advance specialized architectural knowledge based on qualifications acquired at the undergraduate level.

 X
2

To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies.

 X
3

To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work.

 X
4

To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines.

 X
5

To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice.

 X
6

To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently. 

 X
7

To be able to communicate contemporary developments in architecture and one’s own work in professional and interdisciplinary environments in written, oral or visual forms.

 X
8

To be able to consider, control and communicate social, scientific and ethical values in the accumulation, interpretation, publication and/or application of architectural data.

 X
9

To be able to critically analyze the norms that inform spatial relationships and their social implications and to develop original thesis according to guidelines.

 X
10

To be able to keep up with developing knowledge in Architecture and participate in academic and professional discussions using at least one foreign language.

 X

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