ECTS - Architectural Principles and Concepts

Architectural Principles and Concepts (MMR111) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
Architectural Principles and Concepts	MMR111		3	0	0	3	4

Pre-requisite Course(s)
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Course Language	Turkish
Course Type	N/A
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Prof. Dr. Selahattin Önür
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	To get architectural students acquainted with the scope, language, concepts, and major aspects of architecture; and to have them acquire knowledge about the spatial organization practices and ideas during the historical periods of architecture, from Antiquity until today.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Can define the practices and approaches in architecture since the past in broad terms and outlines. Can define the concept of style and the cultural specificity of architecture. Can apprehend and write précis of written sources related to the course topics. Can make research on a given subject by interpreting its aim and expose in written and verbal form his/her findings and thoughts with fidelity to the knowledge acquired.
Course Content	Scope, experience, and concepts related to the discipline of architecture and architectural design; phenomena of form; behavioral characteristics of form, a.) perceptual values related with corporeal, spatial, and surface characteristics and use of the principles of visual order, b.) structural principles and systems, c.) performances achieved.

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	“Orientation” “Types of Design” and “Aims of Design”
2	“Architectural Form and Its Analysis” “Perceptual Principles of Visual Organization: Gestalt”
3	“Scale and Proportion” “Daylight”
4	“Color” “Structural Principles and Sysytems I”
5	“Structural Principles and Sysytems II” “Functional Program I”
6	“Functional Program II” 1st. Mid-Term Exam
7	“Vernacular Tradition” “Antiquity / Egypt; Greek; Roman”
8	“Early Christian; Byzantine; Romanesque; Gothic” “Renascence; Baroque; Roccoco”
9	“Seljuk Architecture” “Ottoman Architecture”
10	“Arts and Crafts”; “Art Nouveau”; “Chicago School”; “Deutscher Werkbund” “De Stijl”; “Constructivism; “Walter Gropius and Bauhaus”
11	“F.L.Wright; W.Gropius; M.van der Rohe” “Le Corbusier; A.Aalto; L.Kahn”
12	“Team X; Techno-Utopianism” 2nd. Mid-Term Exam
13	"Post-Modern approaches”; “Deconstructivism” “Cybernetic Architecture / Parametric Design”
14	Theory in Architectural Design

Course Book	1. Muschenheim, W. “Major Periods of Western Architecture” Elements of the Art of Architecture. Thames and Hudson, 1964
	2. Roth, L.M. Mimarlığın Öyküsü. (çev.Ergün Akça) Kabalcı Yayınları, 2006
	3. Rasmussen (1958) S.E. Yaşanan Mimari. Remzi Kitabevi 2009
	4. Vitruvius (M.Ö.25) Mimarlık Üzerine On Kitap.(Çev. SunaGüven) Şevki Vanlı Mimarlık Vakfı 2005
	5. Tunalı, İsmail (2002) Tasarım Felsefesi. Yem Yayınları 2009
	6. Arnheim, Rudolf (1969) Görsel Düşünme. (Çev.Rahmi Ogdül) Metis Yayınları 2007
	7. Özol, Ahmet. Sanat Eğitimi ve Tasarımda Temel Değerler. Pastel Yayıncılık 2012
	8. Antman, Ahu 20.Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar. Sel Yayıncılık 2013
	9. Rapoport, A. “Introduction” House Form and Culture. Foundations of Cultural Geography Series, Prentice Hall, 1969, s.150
	10. Trachtenberg, M. and Hyman, I. Architecture: From Pre-History to Postmodernism, Prentice Hall, 2003, s.648
	11. Lynch, K. “The City Image and Its Elements” The Image of the City. The MIT Press, 1960
	12. Lampugnani, V.M. (ed.)Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Architecture. Harry N. Abrams, N.Y.,1986
	13. Goodwin, G. A History of Ottoman Architecture. Thames and Hudson, 2003, s.512
	14. Gierlichs, J. “Anatolian Seljuk Architecture” Islam Art and Architecture (ed. M.Hattstein ve P.Delius) Konemann, 2001

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	15	1
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	2	15
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	2	20
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	30
Toplam	20	66

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

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Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	14	3	42
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	14	2	28
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments	2	10	20
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	2	3	6
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	4	4
Total Workload			100