COURSE UNIT TITLE

: READINGS ON SPACE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5108 READINGS ON SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DENIZ GÜNER

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

Concentration on the changing meanings and receptions of the space phenomenon in the history and begin to take a dominant role in the architectural theory, this course aims to present the transformation of the 'Architectural Space' phenomenon over time through theoretical approaches.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the multi-layered structure of the space conception
2   To be familiar with the multiple meanings of the phenomenon of Space in the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and science
3   To distinguish the periodical differances between the varying receptions of space
4   To describe the social, economic, political, cultural factors and parameters which transform the space phenomenon
5   To formulate the current theoretical approaches on architectural space by visually, verbally and in writing

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information on the scope, method, process and references of the course will be given. Evaluation criteria will be explained. Narrator, Moderator and Recorder will be determined.
2 Questions of Space
3 Architectural Space 1
4 Architectural Space 2
5 Architectural Space 3
6 From Architectural Space to Experience, Space and Time
7 Embodied Space
8 Midterm Exam
9 Space as the Dwelling of the Being 1
10 Space as the Dwelling of the Being 2
11 Space as the Execution and Manifestation of Power
12 Gendered Spaces
13 Heterogeneous Space 1
14 Heterogeneous Space 2

Recomended or Required Reading

Adam Sharr. Heidegger for Architects. London: Routledge, 2007.
Adrian Forty, `Space, içinde Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000, ss.256-275.
Andrew Ballantyne. Deleuze & Guattari for Architects (Thinkers for Architects), Routledge, 2007
Bernard Tschumi, `Questions of Space, içinde Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press. Bernard Tschumi, `Mekâna Ilişkin Sorular, içinde Mimarlık ve Kopma, Janus Yayıncılık, ss. 79-89.
Bruno Zevi. `Space: Protagonist of Architecture, içinde Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture. Revised ed. New York, NY: Horizon Press, 1974, ss.22-43.
Bülent Tanju. `Mekan Zaman ve Mimarlıklar içinde Zaman-Mekan A. Sentürer vd. (Eds.) Ist: YEM Yay. ss. 168-185
Christian Norberg-Schulz. The Concept of Dwelling, On the Way to Figurative Architecture. NY: Rizzoli, 1984
David Leatherbarrow. `Space in and out of Architecture, Architecture Oriented Otherwise. NY: Princeton Uni. Press, 2009, ss 239-268.
Gaston Bachelard. `Introduction & `Chp 1: The House . in The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, ss. xv-37
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari. `Chp 14: The Smooth and the Striated içinde A Thousand Plateaus ss.551-581.
H. F. Mallgrave, Ikonomou. `Introduction, içinde I. Eleftherios, H. F. Mallgrave, (Eds.) Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893. Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994, ss. 1-88.
Hasan Ünal Nalbantoğlu. `Nedir Mekân Dedikleri içinde Zaman-Mekân A. Sentürer vd. (Eds.) Ist: Yem Yay., ss. 88-105
Jonathan Hale. Merleau-Ponty for Architects. London: NY: Routledge, 2017.
Juhani Pallasmaa. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
Kenneth Frampton. `On Reading Heidegger, Opposition 4, 1974, ss.1-4
László Moholy-Nagy. `Space (Architecture) içinde The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, 1947 (1928), ss. 56-64.
Martin Heidegger. `Building, Dwelling and Thinking in Poetry Language, Thought. NY: Harper Collins, 1971, ss. 141-160
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. `Part1: Body & `Part 2: The World as Perceived içinde Phenomenology of Perception Translated by C. Smith. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.
Michel Foucault. `Docile Bodies içinde Discipline and Punish, the Birth of the Prison. NY: Vintage Books, 1979, ss. 135-169
Michel Foucault. `Space, Knowledge, and Power içinde The Foucault Reader. Rabinow, Paul, (Ed.) New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, ss. 239-256
Peggy Raw. Iregaray for Architects (Thinkers for Architects). London: Routledge, 2007
Sigfried Giedion. Space-Time in Art, Architecture, and Construction, Space, Time and Architecture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954, ss.. 425-472.
Stan Allen. From objects to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture icinde Hensel, M., Hight, C., Menges, A. (Eds.) Space Reader; Heterogeneous Space in Architecture. UK: Wiley, 2009, ss. 118-144

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

It is compulsory to attend classes where reading and discussions will be held every week.
It is necessary to be prepared for the lessons by reading the weekly texts.
Discussions will be held in the course under the direction of the predetermined Narrator, Recorder and Moderator.
The responsible are expected to write 2-page Short Assessment Texts in A4 size and send them via e-mail within the week following the lesson and upload them to the common sharing platform.
At the end of the semester, it is expected that the responsible will prepare a Research Homework, which will be determined by themselves and will agree with the Instructor, to examine the contemporary architectural example / figure / theme.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The Short Assessment Texts and presentations will be evaluated based on the depth and sufficiency of the researches and the originality of the issues and problems argued by the student.
Active Participation to the lecture grade will depend on the student's attendance and active participation in the class discussions and their performances in the analysis studies.
In-Class Practices (Reading, Participation and Short Assessment Texts): 25%
Midterm Exam (Research Paper - Draft): 25%
Final Exam (Short Assessment Texts and Research Paper - Final): 50%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is not considered as a valid excuse to be absent in class for late submissions of assignments.
2. Late submissions will be subject to a different evaluation.
3. The principles of Academic Honesty must be strictly followed, and any plagiarism attempt, such as cheating and resorting to academic dishonesty, is subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the instructions of the Higher Education Institution

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

deniz.guner@deu.edu.tr // 232 301 84 96

Office Hours

Thursday 1.00 pm to 2.40 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 9 2 18
Tutorials 5 2 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing assignments 1 16 16
Preparing presentations 1 16 16
Final 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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