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

This course is an in-depth examination of theoretical and critical interdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of architecture from 1960 until today, focusing on seminal texts on poststructuralist theory and its intersection with architectural theory. The course tackles poststructuralism as a reflection on the condition of postmodernity, challenging the notions of essential causes of determinacy and arguing for relativism, binary opposition, or conditional knowledge. The course provides a framework for critical inquiry into poststructuralism with excursions into postmodernity, continental philosophy, and structuralist theory. For each topic, the course will start with the close reading of essential philosophical debates and then move through architecture s engagement with it.

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.
Barthes, R. (1999). Elements of Semiology, trans. A. Lavers & C. Smith. New York: Hill and Wang.
Broadbent, G. et al. (1980). Signs, Symbols, and Architecture. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Buchanan, I. & Lambert, G, eds. (2005). Deleuze and Space. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Cousins, M. & Hussain, A. (1984). Michel Foucault. London: MacMillan.
Culler, J. (1975). Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. R. Hurkey et al. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. B. Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Eagleton, T. (1996). Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. A. Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.
Foucault, M. (1982). This is Not a Pipe, trans. J. Harkness. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Foucault, M. (2002). Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. S. Smith. London: Routledge.
Frichot, H. & Loo, S., eds. (2013). Deleuze and Architecture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Frichot, H. et al., eds. (2016). Deleuze and the City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Grosz, E. (2001). Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Hays, M., ed. (2000). Architecture Theory Since 1968. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Hays, M. (2010). Architecture s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Koolhaas, R. (1994). Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: The Monacelli Press.
Leach, N., ed. (1997). Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge.
Nesbitt, K., ed. (1996). Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Norris, C. (1982). Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London and New York: Methuen.
Ockman, J. (1985). Architecture, Criticism, Ideology. New Jersey: Princeton Architectural Press.
Preziosi, D. (1979). Architecture, Language, and Meaning. The Hague: Mouton.
Rorty, R. (1978). Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida. New Literary History 10(1), pp. 141-160.
Tschumi, B. (1996). Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Wigley, M. (1993). The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Williams, J. (2005). Understanding Poststructuralism. Bucks: Acumen.

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 comprises of lectures by the tutor and discussion sessions by students. It requires intense involvement 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. They are advised to keep notes of thoughts, comments, and questions that occur while reading, and to come to class prepared to share these notes. As homework, they are expected to prepare questions that derive from weekly readings in advance for open debates in class. In addition, they will choose a topic from the weekly program and present it in class by using the given references (including problem statement / research question and a preliminary / tentative bibliography). As exam, they are expected to submit a visual abstract (in the form of collage or photomontage) of their research proposal for which they are given feedback by the tutor as to how to proceed in the research. They are expected to develop the 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

HOMEWORK-PRESENTATION %20
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION TO THE LECTURE %20
MID-TERM EXAM %20
FINAL EXAM %40
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MAKE-UP %40


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: deniz.balik@deu.edu.tr
tel: 0 232 301 84 98

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes