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 DENIZ BALIK

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

Architectural aesthetics has been significant from cultural, social, and economic perspectives. This course aims to analyse, evaluate, and criticise architectural products within the framework of aesthetics object, subject, vale, and judgment by applying aesthetic theories to the field of architecture. The course engages in both theoretical and practical discussions by delving into foundational texts. It questions how architectural aesthetics has been produced, shaped, and consumed particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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

The following are essential background references. Additional weekly readings are listed in the course schedule.
Adorno, Theodor W. (2012/1970). Aesthetic Theory, London, New York: Bloomsbury.
Adorno, Theodor W. (1979/1965), Functionalism Today , trans. Jane O. Newman, John H. Smith, Oppositions, No: 17, pp. 31-41.
Benjamin, Andrew. (2000). Architectural Philosophy, London, New Brunswick: The Athlone Press.
Benjamin, Walter. (1968/1935), The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt, New York: Schocken, pp. 217-251.
Berger, John. (1977). Ways of Seeing, London: Penguin.
Bourriaud, Nicolas. (2002/1998). Relational Aesthetics, trans. Simon Pleasance, Fronza Woods, Dijon: Les Presses du Réel.
Bozkurt, Nejat. (1995). Sanat ve Estetik Kuramları, Istanbul: Sarmal.
Carroll, Noël. (1999). Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction, London, New York: Routledge.
Cazeaux, Clive, ed. (2000). The Continental Aesthetics Reader, London, New York: Routledge.
Crysler, C. Greig et al., eds. (2012).The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, Los Angeles, London: Sage.
Dewey, John. (2005/1934). Art as Experience, New York: Penguin.
Eco, Umberto. (1989/1962). The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Gaut, Berys & Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. (2001). The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, London, New York: Routledge.
Greenberg, Clement. (1965/1939). Avantgarde and Kitsch in Art and Culture, Boston: Beacon, pp. 3-21.
Hartmann, Nicolai. (2024) Estetik. Ankara: Doğu Batı.
Hegel, Georg W. F. (1975/1835). Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art I-II, trans. T. M. Knox, Oxford: Clarendon.
Kant, Immanuel. (1987/1790). Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner Pluhnar, Hackett.
Marcuse, Herbert. (1979). The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, trans. Herbert Marcuse & Erica Sherover, Boston: Beacon.
Masiero, Roberto. (2006/1999). Mimaride Estetik, trans. Fırat Genç, Ankara: Dost.
Rancière, Jacques. (2004). The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, trans., ed. Gabriel Rockhill, London, New York: Bloomsbury.
Scruton, Roger. (2013/1979). The Aesthetics of Architecture, Princeton University Press.
Timuçin, Afşar. (2013). Estetik I-II, Istanbul: Bulut.
Tunalı, Ismail. (1998). Estetik, Istanbul: Remzi.
Tunalı, Ismail. (2002). Tasarım Felsefesine Giriş, Istanbul: YEM.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, discussion, close analysis of texts, individual research, written assignment.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

This course consists of lectures by the tutor and discussion sessions primarily carried out by students. It requires active participation on the part of students. It is primarily structured around close readings. Students are expected to engage in all assigned readings critically before the appropriate class. On a weekly basis, they are expected to produce 200-word summaries of texts and to come to class prepared to share these notes for open debates. For the mid-term exam, they will select a topic from the weekly program and present it in class within the framework of the given text and case study (including problem statement / research question and a preliminary / tentative bibliography). The instructors will give feedback to guide students on how to proceed in the research. The students are expected to develop their proposal as a final research paper, delving deeply into the issues raised directly by the readings and class discussions, yet bringing in new material.

Assessment Criteria

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION TO THE LECTURE %10
MID-TERM EXAM-PRESENTATION %40
FINAL EXAM %50
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MAKE-UP %50


Course Policies and Rules:
Weekly topics cover different themes and questions, yet they interrelate and accumulate over one another. Therefore, a day of absence may result in losing track of topics and discussions.
Students are expected to come to every class with annotated copies of the readings, remain engaged, and participate actively in class discussions, presentations, and readings.
Being absent in class is not considered as a valid excuse for late submissions of assignments. Late submissions will be subject to a different evaluation.
All kinds of plagiarism will result in a disciplinary action.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: inci.uzun@deu.edu.tr , deniz.balik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes