COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSERVATION OF HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5167 CONSERVATION OF HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ESTER ETI AKYÜZ LEVI

Offered to

Restoration
Restoration

Course Objective

The course aims to give basic knowledge about conservation, evaluation and restoration of historical environment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to explain the basic concepts about historical environment, conservation and restoration.
2   Ability to comment upon the conservation issues regarding historical environment.
3   Ability to criticize the conservation history of the country and to envision the approaches towards the solutions of the problems of protecting the historical values.
4   Ability to interrelate and compare sites and monuments as elements of historical environment.
5   Ability to interpret conservation laws and principle decisions.
6   Ability to evaluate the work of art within the frame of system of values regarding the detection of the work of art to be protected.
7   Making research about historical environment and ability to present this in visual, written and oral form.
8   Ability to make diductions from findings about historical environment.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course, aim, method and contents of the course.
2 Historical Environment and Concept of Conservation. 2.1. Environment and Concept of Historical environment. 2.2. Concept of conservation. 2.2.1. Historical development of the phenomenon of Conservation. 2.2.2.Current concepts related to historical environment. (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion) (Practice 1- Brain storming)
3 Reasons for conservation of historical environment and aim of conservation. 3.1. Basic approaches in conservation. 3.2. Elements of Historical Environment. 3.2.1. Monuments 3.2.2. Sites Assignment of take-home subjects. (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion) (Practice 2- Game-based learning)
4 Striking problems in the preservation of historic environments. (Problems related to climate change, historical buildings at risk etc.)
5 Technical visit concerning historical urban fabric in Izmir. (May be held in the form of virtual trips in the fall semester of the 2021-2022 Academic Year, depending on the conditions).
6 System of values of specifying the works to be conserved. (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion) (Practice 3- Case-based method)
7 Concept of Restoration 7.1. Restoration methods (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
8 International rules and regulations as recommendations about Conservation-Restoration. (Lecture-showing, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
9 The discussion of certain issues in terms of the restoration approach in the light of international regulations (environment, unity of style, assumption, technical equipment, annexes and etc.) (Lecture-showing, discussion method) (Publication discussion) (Practice 4- Developing idea)
10 Mid-term exam International organizations about Conservation Restoration. (Lecture-showing, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
11 View of the Phenomena of Conservation and Restoration in Türkiye Conservation laws and regulations in the Ottoman Empire. (Asar-ı Atika nizamnameleri (regulations)) (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
12 Conservation laws and resolutions in Türkiye 12.1. The conservation laws No. 1710, 2863 and 3386 12.1.1. Amendments by the resolutions enacted in 1995 and 1996. 12.1.2. The law No. 5226 and the following resolutions; studying the regulations and the amendments made. (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
13 The innovations brought by the developments on the agenda of conservation and their reflections on the restoration practices. Collection of take-homes. Samples for the Restoration Practices. Discussion of problems about conservation in Türkiye and recommendation of solutions. (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication discussion)
14 Student presentations General Evaluation (Lecture-showing, question and answer teaching method, discussion method) (Publication presentation and discussion)

Recomended or Required Reading

* AHUNBAY, Zeynep, Tarihi Çevre Koruma ve Restorasyon, Istanbul, 1996.
* AHUNBAY, Zeynep, Kültür Mirasını Koruma Ilke ve Teknikleri, Istanbul, YEM Yayınevi, 2019.
* AKYÜZ LEVI, Eti, "Tarihi Çevre Korumacılığı ve Turizm", Mimarlık, 286(4/1999), pp.55-56.
* AKYÜZ, Eti, "Ikinci Grup Uygulamalar", Art Dekor, 34 (January 1996), pp. 76-78.
* AKYÜZ LEVI, Eti, "Izmir'in Tarihi Çevre Dokusu ve Koruma Sorunları", Mimarlık Batı Akdeniz, 9 (October 1998), pp. 8-13.
* AKYÜZ LEVI Eti, GENÇ Umut, "Izmir'de Tarihi Banka Yapıları", YAPI Dergisi, sayı (Ocak 2016), s. 54-61.
* AKYÜZ LEVI Eti, "Conservation Courses in Undergraduate Architecture Education in Türkiye", Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Türkiye, Ege Yayınları, Istanbul, 2016, s. 241-253.
* ALTINOLUK, Ülkü, Binaların Yeniden Kullanımı, Istanbul, 1998.
* BOITO, Camillo, Korumak mı, Restore Etmek mi , Istanbul, Janus Yayıncılık, 2018.
* ERDER, Cevat, Tarihi Çevre Bilinci, Ankara, 1975.
* ERDER, Cevat, Tarihi Çevre Kaygısı, Ankara, 1971.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format.
Visual materials will be used intensively and technical excursions will be made during the course.
Students' active participation in the course is expected.
* Literature research and archive research
* Fieldwork (on-the-spot observations and examinations)

- Conveying through oral and visual presentations.
- On-site observation, examination, discussion within the scope of technical trip
- Development of the ideas which have been suggested through the discussion medium in the classroom & interpretations
- Discussion of publications.

Additionally, question and answer teaching method, game-based learning, an individual teaching method, brain storming, group work will be used.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE 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

Midterm %25 (LO1, LO3, LO4, LO5)
Assignment and class participation % 25 (LO2, LO3, LO5)
Final % 50 (LO3, LO6, LO7, LO8)

The knowledge dimension (LO1) of the learning outcomes, their comprehension dimension (LO2), their practice dimension (LO3), their analysis dimension (LO4), their evaluation dimension (LO5, LO6), their synthesis dimension (LO7, LO8) is measured. The evaluation of participation in the course, will be determined with attendance by the student, his/her active participation in the discussion medium during the course and his/her qualitative contribution in this context.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Eti Akyüz Levi
e-mail: eti.akyuz@gmail.com; eti.levi@deu.edu.tr ;
tel.: 0090232-3018460

Office Hours

Monday 13.00-13.45

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Technical trip 1 3 3
Student Presentations 1 2 2
Preparation for midterm exam 1 11 11
Other(please indicate) - Reading 12 2 24
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Preparing individual assignments 1 16 16
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparing final individual assignments 1 25 25
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61
LO.71
LO.81