COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR INCI UZUN

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

To gain the ability of analyzing, evaluating and criticizing the architectural design products in the context of aesthetic subject, object and value, by applying the theories of aesthetics to the field of architecture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Adorno, Theodor W., Aesthetic Theory, London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2012 (1970).
Theodor W. Adorno, Functionalism Today , trans. Jane O. Newman, John H. Smith, Oppositions, No: 17, 1979 (1965), ss. 31-41.
Benjamin, Andrew, Architectural Philosophy, London, New Brunswick: The Athlone Press, 2000.
Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt, New York: Schocken, 1968 (1935), pp. 217-251.
Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, London: Penguin, 1977.
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Relational Aesthetics, trans. Simon Pleasance, Fronza Woods, Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2002 (1998).
Bozkurt, Nejat, Sanat ve Estetik Kuramları, Istanbul: Sarmal, 1995.
Carroll, Noël, Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction, London, New York: Routledge, 1999.
Cazeaux, Clive (ed.), The Continental Aesthetics Reader, London, New York: Routledge, 2000.
Crysler, C. Greig et al. (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, Los Angeles, London: Sage, 2012.
Dewey, John, Art as Experience, New York: Penguin, 2005 (1934).
Eco, Umberto, The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989 (1962).
Gaut, Berys, Dominic McIver Lopes (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, London, New York: Routledge, 2001.
Greenberg, Clement, Avantgarde and Kitsch in Art and Culture, Boston: Beacon, 1965 (1939), pp. 3-21.
Hegel, Georg W. F., Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art I-II, trans. T. M. Knox, Oxford: Clarendon, 1975 (1835).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner Pluhnar, Hackett, 1987 (1790).
Marcuse, Herbert, The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, Boston: Beacon, 1979 (1978).
Masiero, Roberto, Mimaride Estetik, trans. Fırat Genç, Ankara: Dost, 2006 (1999).
Rancière, Jacques, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, trans., ed. Gabriel Rockhill, London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
Scruton, Roger, The Aesthetics of Architecture, Princeton University Press, 2013 (1979).
Timuçin, Afşar, Estetik I-II, Istanbul: Bulut, 2013.
Tunalı, Ismail, Estetik, Istanbul: Remzi, 1998.
Tunalı, Ismail, Tasarım Felsefesine Giriş, Istanbul: YEM, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Certain texts will ve given to students each week and students will be asked to summerize those texts. Each week one student should prepare a presentation crictisizing an architect and their selected works through the concept that would be studied with that week's text. The texts and the presentations will be discussed in the class in the context aesthetics concepts and theories. Thr students will be asked to write articles at the end of the semester.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, LO2: Active participation to the lecture (% 10)
LO3, LO4, LO5: Homework Assignments/Presentation (% 40)
LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5: Final Paper (% 50)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students are responsible to read the texts which are given before the lecture.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

inci.uzun@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes