| Course Name | Literary Spaces |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| FFD 571 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Lecturer(s) | - | |||||
| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to propose alternative research methods that will contribute to spatial epistemology through recoursing to the spatial clues in literary spaces. The course will also emphasize the affluence of the socio-spatial knowledge within literary spaces by relating the social and cultural data with spatial formations. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | Literature as a source of inspiration for exploring other ways of understanding space. Within the scope of the course, new information will be searched by reading and reinterpreting space in a critical way using the tools of literature. |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Discourse and the discourse analysis in spatial studies | Basa, İ., “Linguistic Discourse in Architecture”, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (2000). Tanyeli, U., “Söylem ve Kuram: Mimari Bilgi Alanının Sınırlarını Çizmek”, Mimarlık, 289: 38-41 (1999). Werth, P., “Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse”, Longman, Singapore (1999). |
| 3 | The potential of literary texts to expose spatial experience as well as memory | Livesey, G., “Fictional Cities”, Chora, ed. A. Perez-Gomez, S. Parcell, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal ve Kingston, 109-122 (1994). Shonfield, K., “The Use of Fiction To Reinterpret Architectural and Urban Space”, Intersections, ed. I. Borden, J. Rendell, Routledge, London (2000). Tümer, G., “Mimarlıkta Edebiyattan Neden ve Nasıl Yararlanmalı? (Aragon’un Paris Köylüsü Üzerine Bir Örnekleme)”, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ege University, İzmir (1981). |
| 4 | Understanding tools of narration | Emmot, C., “Narrative Comprehension”, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1999). |
| 5 | Spatial discourse on the 20th century modernity | Berman, M., “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Verso, 1983. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World, Transaction Publishers, 1984. |
| 6 | Analysis of the translation of spatial experience into their narrative form | |
| 7 | Literary representations of urban space I: İstanbul | Ayşegül Uğurlu, Orhan Pamuk Romanında Atmosfer, Unpublished Master Thesis, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, 2003. |
| 8 | Literary representations of urban space II: London (by Woolf and Dickens) | |
| 9 | Literary representations of urban space III: Prag and Paris ( by Kafka and Zola) | Harvey, D. Paris; City of Modernity, London: Routledge, (2006). Bely, A. Petersburg, London: Penguin (1983). |
| 10 | Midterm | |
| 11 | Literary representations of space in utopian literature | Halaç, H., “Hayal/Et Ülke/Li/Ler ve Mimarlık”, Unpublished Master Thesis, Gazi University, Ankara (2001). Rona, F., “Utopia and Predictions: An Aspect of Architectural Conceptualization”, Unpublished Master Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1973). |
| 12 | Literary representations of space in dystopian novels | Ellul, J., “Search for an Image”, Images of the Future: The Twenty-first Century and Beyond, ed. R. Bundy, Prometheus Books, New York (1976). James, E., “Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century”, Oxford University Press, New York (1994). Saatçioğlu, E., “Alternate Realities in Ursula K. Le Guin’s City of Illusions, Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, and The Left Hand of the Darkness”, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, (2002). Toran, Ö., “Looking Backward 2000-1887, Men Like Gods ve Brave New World: Ütopya, Karşı Ütopya ve Marksist Eleştiri”, Unpublished Master Thesis, Ankara University, Ankara, (1998). |
| 13 | Literary representations of interior space I | Karaosmanoğlu, Y.K., Kiralık Konak, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, (2008). Aynsley, J., and Grant, C, eds., Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance, London: V&A Publications, 2006. |
| 14 | Literary representations of interior space II | Woolf, Virginia, Jacob’s Room, Penguin Books, London (1968). |
| 15 | Final Review | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Books listed above, power point presentations and tutorials on the website |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Benjamin, W., “Paris the Capitol of the Nineteenth Century”, in Tiedeman R., ed. The Arcades Project, Harvard: Harvard Press (2002). Butor, M., "The Space of the Novel," ln Inventory: Essays by Michel Butor, New York (1968). Cook, G., “Discourse and Literature: The Interplay of Form and Mind”, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1994). Crysler, G., Writing Spaces, Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism, and the Built Environment, 1960‐2000, Routledge (2003). Fairclough, N., “Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language”, Longman, London, 2, 10 (1999). Frisby, D., Cityscapes of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, (2007). Guédon, J.R., “Disiplinaşırı Bilgi Olarak Mimarlık”, Any Seçmeler, der. H. Pamir, Mimarlar Derneği Yayınları, Ankara, 3: 100-107 (1998). Harmanşah, Ö., Mekansal Hikayeler, Mimarlık, 274, 1998, p. 23. Howarth, D., “Discourse”, Open University Press, Buckingham, Philedelphia, 134 (2000). Johnstone, B., “Discourse Analysis and Narrative”, The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen, H.E. Hamilton, Blackwell Publishers, Massachussets, 635-49 (2001). Mills, S., “Discourse”, Routledge, London ve New York, 52 (1997). Nora, P., Hafıza Mekanları, trans. M. E. Özcan, Dost Yayınları (2006). Paschalidis, G., “Modernity as a Project and Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia”, Science Fiction-Critical Frontiers, ed. K. Sayer, J. Moore, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 35-47 (2000). Süveydan, Ş., “Mimarlık Teorisi Üzerine Tezler”, Mimarlık, 289: 24-37 (1999). Thomas A. Markus and Deborah Cameron , The Words Between theSpaces, Buildins and Language , Routledge, (2002). |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 15 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 15 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 60 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 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 | 15 | 4 | 60 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 30 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 20 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 82 | |
| Total | 240 |
| # | 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. | |||||
| 2 | To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies. | |||||
| 3 | To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work. | |||||
| 4 | To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice. | |||||
| 6 | To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
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