COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSPARENCY IN 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE, CONCEPTS AND WORKS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5128 TRANSPARENCY IN 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE, CONCEPTS AND WORKS 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 ILKNUR TÜRKSEVEN DOĞRUSOY

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

This course aims to make students to have critical point of view, ability of interpretation and research in terms of transparency concept which is an important charachteristics of 20th century architecture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To differentiate both physical and perceptual dimensions of transparency in architecture.
2   To count the factors that create transparency in architectural work.
3   To describe the 20'th century developments in architecture and to establish their relations with current developments.
4   To establish relations among the concepts of transparency, modernism, modernisation, representation, identity and symbolism.
5   To research current developments in transparency in architecture and to present it in a critical point of view.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 To introduce aims and targets of of the course, Introduction to transparency in architecture.
2 The concepts of literal and phenomenal transparency. Literal transparency in architecture, volumetric and spatial transparency, relations between window design and transparency.
3 Transparency in painting and architecture. Readings through Cubist painting and early Modernist works.
4 An overview of Enlightenment philosophy. Scientific and technological developments of 19th century and their effects on architecture. Readings through 19th century engineering buildings which established a base for 20th century developments.
5 Avangard movement and avangard architects that facilitate development of transparency in 20th century architecture
6 The evaluation of the values of transparency in architecture from 20th century to our age the value of such as, identity, representation and symbolical meaning.
7 Student presentations
8 Student presentations
9 Student presentations
10 Student presentations
11 Student presentations
12 Student presentations
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Rowe C. & Slutzky, R. (1997). Transparency, Birkhauser Verlag: Berlin.
Scully, V. (1980). Modern Mimarlık, Istanbul: Çevre Yayınları.
Türkseven, Ilknur (1996). The Effects of Glass on Building and Space Design, Yayımlanmamış Master Tezi, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Izmir.
Wiggington, M. (2002). Glass in Arhitecture, Phaidon Press: USA.
Yapı dergisi, sayı 291/2006 Saydamlık ve Rafael Vinoly, Şengül Öymen Gür, sf. 42-47
Arredamento mimarlık, sayı 2005/12 , Mimarlıkta saydamlık, sanat-teknoloji arakesitinde James Carpenter, Ilknur Türkseven Doğrusoy, sf. 107-113

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Theoretical lectures and powerpoint presentations are made during the courses
Assignments
Students determine their own research subjects and prepare a resarch portfoy and a presentation

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 * 0.30 +PAR * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 +PAR * 0.20 +RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Homework assignments/Presentations: 30 %
Active participation to discussions: 20 %
Final examination (submission of essays): 50 %

Assessment Criteria

Homework assignments/Presentations: 30 %, LO1, LO3, LO5
Active participation to discussions: 20 %, LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
Final examination (submission of essays) 50 %, LO1, LO2, LO5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to the course is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilknur.turkseven@deu.edu.tr 0090 232 301 8453

Office Hours

to be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 6 2 12
Case study 8 2 16
Preparation for final exam 1 60 60
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 8 2 16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.111
LO.21
LO.311
LO.41
LO.511

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