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YAŞAR UNIVERSITY Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture
ARCH 221: HISTORY AND THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM II FALL 2016
Instructors: Assist. Prof. Dr. Kıvanç Kılınç & Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahenk Yılmaz e-mail: [email protected] & [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION As a sequel to History and Theories of Architecture and Urbanism I, this survey course addresses the early modern period from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. By providing a wealth of visual material both from the Western and non-Western worlds, it deals with architectural and urban forms in their historical contexts. Students are introduced to historical architectural texts from Vitruvius’ treatise to Renaissance theorists’ works as well as early texts on non-Western architectures. In addition to providing students with a chronological sense of buildings and architects, special emphasis is placed on such contemporary historiographical themes as modernity, nationalism, identity, Orientalism, colonialism and gender in relation to their impact on the conceptualization of the built environment. Students’ critical thinking skills are mobilized by comparative analyses of various architectural discourses.
CONDUCT The course consists of 2-hour lectures and 1-hour discussion sessions. The lectures provide the basic “canonical” information of architectural history that students need to know as future architects. There is no required textbook for this course. For additional suggested readings, please see the second page of this syllabus. The discussions, held at a separate time from the lectures, aim to develop students’ critical abilities through readings and dialogue. Students are expected to read the short texts prior to the discussion sessions and be prepared to actively participate in discussion.
REQUIREMENTS 1. Attendance: Attendance to lectures and discussion sessions is mandatory. Below 70 percent attendance to classes will automatically result in the failing grade (R: repeat). Active participation in discussion is strongly encouraged.
2. Worksheet You are required to print out a copy of the worksheet template and bring it to each discussion session. Questions about the assigned reading of the week will be shown in the beginning of the class to give you enough time to answer them.
3. Term Project and its Presentation This semester you are expected to survey Izmir through the eyes of an architecture student. You will analyze a particular building that is historically significant from a canonical perspective. During this group study, you will take notes, make sketches and prepare a presentation about your findings. Student number in each group and the list of historical buildings will be announced later. Course documents can be accessed from the course’s lectures page: lectures.yasar.edu.tr > ARCH 221 History and Theories of Architecture and Urbanism II
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STUDENT EVALUATION
Midterm Exam 30% Term Project (Submission) 8% Term Project (Presentation)* 8% Participation/Discussion Worksheets 14%
Term Grade 60 %
Final Exam 40 % TOTAL 100% *Students who do not submit their projects on time will not be able to make a presentation and will receive an F grade from the term project.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Andrew Leach, What is Architectural History? (Cambridge, Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011). Ian Sutton, Western Architecture from Ancient Greece to the Present, London, New York:
Thames & Hudson, 1999. Hanno Walter Kruft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, New
York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, Oxford: Oxford Universıty
Press, 1995. Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, New York,
London: W.W. Norton&Company, 1994.
Classroom Decorum: No use of cell-phones or texting in classroom during the lecture or in discussion sections. You can use your laptops/tablets to check for the course related materials, course website or online dictionaries. If you are late to the class more than 15 minutes, attend the second half of the class. Attendance will be taken both before and after the break.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF THE SEMESTER
WEEK
LECTURE
(MONDAY)
DISCUSSION
(WEDNESDAY)
#1
19 SEPTEMBER Introduction of course material
21 SEPTEMBER Vitruvius, The Ten Books on
Architecture, 13-17.
#2
26 SEPTEMBER Glorious Re-Birth: The Renaissance
28 SEPTEMBER Antonio di Tuccio Manetti, The Life of
Brunelleschi, 28-30.
#3
3 OCTOBER Perceptual Deviations:
Baroque/Rococo
5 OCTOBER “Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's
- Episode 01,” BBC, 2009.
#4
10 OCTOBER Architecture of the
Enlightenment
12 OCTOBER Marc Antoine Laugier, An Essay on
Architecture (1753), 7-14.
#5
17 OCTOBER The 19th Century:
Nostalgic Regressions
19 OCTOBER John Ruskin, excerpts from The Stones of Venice (1851), 1-12.
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WE WISH YOU A SUCCESSFUL SEMESTER!
#6
24 OCTOBER The 19th Century:
Technological Delights
26 OCTOBER Eugène E. Viollett-le-Duc, selected
pages from The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc (M.F. Hearn, 1990), 115-
116, 187, 192-3.
#7
31 OCTOBER The Ottoman Renaissance: Sinan
2 NOVEMBER Jale Erzen, “Sinan as Anti-Classicist,”
Muqarnas 5 (1988), 70-73.
3 NOVEMBER TERM PROJECT SUBMISSION
#8 7 NOVEMBER
PRESENTATIONS 9 NOVEMBER
PRESENTATIONS
#9 14 NOVEMBER PRESENTATIONS
16 NOVEMBER PRESENTATIONS
#10 21 NOVEMBER
MID-TERM EXAM
23 NOVEMBER NO DISCUSSION / CLASS
#11
28 NOVEMBER Architecture of the Far East:
India, China, Indonesia
30 NOVEMBER Jyoti Hosagrahar, “Mansions to
Margins: Modernity and the Domestic Landscapes of Historic Delhi, 1847
1910,” 26-30.
#12
5 DECEMBER Colonial City Planning: North Africa and the Middle-East
7 DECEMBER Hugh Pouliot, “Between the Medina
and the Metropole: Race & Urban Planning from Algiers to Paris (1930-
75),” 15-20.
#13
12 DECEMBER Colonial Architecture in the
Americas
14 DECEMBER Frank P. Allen, Jr., “San Diego
Exposition: Development of Spanish Colonial Architecture,” 116-126.
#14
19 DECEMBER Istanbul at the Turn of the
Century
21 DECEMBER Nancy Micklewright, “Public and
Private for Ottoman Women of the Nineteenth Century,” 169-171.
#15
FINAL EXAM PERIOD
