COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5118 ADVANCED STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION 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

PROFESSOR AÇALYA ALLMER

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

Building upon recent scholarship, this course aims to explore the influence of different modes of representation on architectural production - from the initial idea to the built object of architecture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize the growing body of recent literature in architectural representation.
2   To integrate this knowledge into contemporary architectural theory.
3   To interpret architectural texts critically.
4   To analyse the different modes of representation.
5   To employ academic writing skills in English.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Perspective - Samuel Y. Edgerton, 'The Western Window', 'The Discovery of the Vanishing Point', in The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective, Harper & Row Publishers, 1975, pp. 3-15; 124-152. - Daniel Libeskind, Perspective Emblem of Sacrifice , Daidalos, 11, 1984, pp. 106-19.
3 ANAMORPHOSIS - Daniel L. Collins, 'Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer: Inverted Perspective and Construction of the Gaze', Leonardo, vol. 25, no. 1, 1992, pp. 73-82. - Alberto Perez-Gomez and Louise Pelltier, Relocating Anamorphosis , in Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, The MIT Press, 2000, pp. 138-149.
4 SKIAGRAPHIA - Victor Stoichita, 'The Shadow Stage', in A Short History of the Shadow, Reaktion Books, 1997, pp. 11-41. - Alberto Perez-Gomez and Louise Pelltier, 'Sciographia and Projected Shadows', in Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, The MIT Press, 2000, pp. 111-125.
5 SECTION - Jacques Guillerme, and Hélène Vérin, 'The Archaeology of Section', Perspecta, 25, 1989, pp. 226-56. - Alper Semih Alkan, Framing the 'Invisible': 'Section' as a Spatial Frame for a Reconsideration of Architectural Representation, unpublished master thesis, Middle East Technical University, 2004.
6 AXONOMETRY - Alberto Perez-Gomez and Louise Pelltier, 'From Measurement to Abstraction: Isometry and Axonometry', in Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, The MIT Press, 2000, pp. 307-329. - Bernhard Schneider, Perspective Refers to the Viewer, Axonometry Refers to the Object , Daidalos, 1, 1981, pp. 81-95. - Yve-Alain Bois, Metamorphosis of Axonometry , Daidalos, 1, 1981, pp. 41-59.
7 TROMPE-l OEIL - Daniela Bertol, 'Achitecture of Images': An Investigation of Architectural Representations and the Visual Perception of Three-Dimensional Space', Leonardo, vol. 29, no. 2, 1996, pp. 87-94.
8 STEREOSCOPY Penelope Haralambidou, 'The Stereoscopic Veil', ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, vol 11, no. 1, 2007, pp. 37-51.
9 PHOTOGRAMMETRY - Mathan Ratinam, 'Falling into the Image', ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, vol 9, no. ¾,, 2005, pp. 237-244.
10 GOOGLE EARTH - Mark Dorrian, 'The Aerial View: Notes for a Cultural History', in Strates, ed. by Frédéric Pousin and Hélène Jannière (Paris: CNRS, 2007), pp.1-17.
11 MAPPING - Naomi Stead, 'Citing Sydney: Architectural Representation, Mapping, and the Tourist Gaze', in Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory, The 24th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, September 21-24, 2007.
12 INDIVIDUAL CRITICS

Recomended or Required Reading

- Feray Maden, Deniz Şengel, Kırılan Temsiliyet: Libeskind de Bellek, Tarih ve Mimarlık , JFA, 2009.
- Uğur Tanyeli, Mimarisiz Temsiliyetten Temsiliyetin Mimarisine , Arredamento Mimarlık, 100+8, 1998, pp. 43-45.
- Robin Evans, In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind , AA Files, 6, 1984, pp. 89-96.
- Robert Rosenblum, The Origin of Painting: A Problem in the Iconography of Romantic Classicism , Art Bulletin, 39, 1957, pp. 279-90.
- Uğur Tanyeli, Mimarlıkta Temsiliyet , Arredamento Mimarlık, 146, 2002, 76.
- Uğur Tanyeli, Simülasyon Çağında Mimarlık ve Woods , Çağdaş Dünya Mimarları 4 Lebbeus Woods, s 7-15, Boyut Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2000.
- Yücel, A., Mimarlık ve Temsil , Tol Mimarlık Kültürü Dergisi, 4, 2004, pp. 77-82.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In the first half of the course there will be a series of lectures on different modes of representation of approximately one hour long, delivered by the instructor, followed by the general discussion. The second half of the course consists of papers presented by the students.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

50% Oral Research Presentation
50% Final Research Paper

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

All students are required to read each of the main texts as outlined in the syllabus each week and to come prepared to engage in a critical discussion of the issues being addressed.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

acalya.allmer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

to be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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