COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5154 ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS 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

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

1   1. Getting knowledge on the concept and the theories of aesthetics,
2   2. Comprehending the creation and perception processes in relation with aesthetic subject,
3   3. Analyzing the characteristics of architectural design products as an aesthetic object through the architectural design principles,
4   4. Associating the architectural design product with the aesthetic values of the era that has been created.
5   5. Evaluating and criticizing the architectural design product in the context of aesthetics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Week: Conceptual frame of aesthetic in architecture
2 2. Week: Aesthetic and related concepts. Reading and discussing text: Ismail Tunalı, Estetik, Istanbul: Remzi, 1998, ss. 13-46.
3 3. Week: Where do design and architecture stand in terms of aesthetic approaches Reading and discussing text: Ismail Tunalı, Tasarım Felsefesine Giriş, Istanbul: YEM, 2002, ss. 12-54.
4 4. Week: Breaking in aesthetic problems: Autonomy, necessity and the sublime Reading and discussing text: Immanuel Kant, Yargı Yetisinin Eleştirisi, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Istanbul: Idea, 2011, ss. 55-61, 72-91,101-127. Case study: Frank Gehry
5 5. Week: Romantic aesthetic ideal and inner subjectivity Reading and discussing text: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Estetik II, çev. Taylan Altuğ, Hakkı Hünler, Istanbul: Payel, 2015, ss. 284-298. Case study: Frank Lloyd Wright
6 6. Week: Kitsch and eclectic Reading and discussing text: Clement Greenberg, Avangart ve Kitsch, çev. Merve Yalçın, Melamet, Cilt: 1, Sayı: 1, 2015, ss. 44-49. Case study: Coop Himmelb(l)au
7 7. Week: Aesthetic experience Reading and discussing text: John Dewey, Deneyim Olarak Sanat, çev. Nur Küçük, Istanbul: Vakıfbank, 2021, ss. 59-85. Case study: Peter Zumthor
8 8. Week: Fenomenologic - Ontologik aesthetic approaches Reading and discussing text: Martin Heidegger, Sanat Eserinin Kökeni, çev. Fatih Tepebaşılı, Ankara: De Ki, 2007, ss. 7-48. Case study: Han Tümertekin
9 9. Week: Critics on aura and uniqueness Reading and discussing text: Walter Benjamin, Tekniğin Olanaklarıyla Yeniden Üretilebildiği Çağda Sanat Yapıtı, Pasajlar içinde, çev. Ahmet Cemal, Istanbul: Yky, 2007, ss. 50-86. Case study: Herzog & de Meuron
10 10. Week: Critics on functionality and usefulness Reading and discussing text: Theodor W. Adorno, Functionalism Today, çev. Jane O. Newman, John H. Smith, Oppositions, No: 17, 1979, ss. 31-41. Case study: Adolf Loos
11 11. Week: Aesthetic, folk and society Reading and discussing text: Herbert Marcuse, Estetik Boyut: Sanatın Sürekliliği: Marxist Estetiğin Bir Eleştirisine Doğru, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Istanbul: Idea, 1997. Case study: Superpool
12 12. Week: Infinite meaning and interpretation Reading and discussing text: Umberto Eco, Açık Yapıt Poetikası, Açık Yapıt içinde, çev. Yakup Şahan, Istanbul: Kabalcı, 1992, ss. 11-37. Case study: Bernard Tschumi
13 13. Week: Social context and relationality Reading and discussing text: Nicolas Bourriaud, Ilişkisel Form, Birarada Bulunmak ve Buluşmalar, Ilişkisel Estetik içinde, Istanbul: Bağlam, 2005, ss. 22-37, 48-56. Case study: Diller + Scofidio
14 14. Week: Debates on body and person Reading and discussing text: Roberto, Masiero, Atopya ve Nooteknik: Lüzumsuzluk Estetikleri, Postmodernden Bu Yana , Mimaride Estetik içinde, trans. Fırat Genç, Ankara: Dost, 2006, ss. 201-214. Case study: Zaha Hadid

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

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.40 +PAR * 0.10 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 +PAR * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 6 3 18
Lectures 8 2 16
Student Presentations 8 1 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparing assignments 3 15 45
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

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.411
LO.511