COURSE UNIT TITLE

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

This seminar posits a new methodical approach to the study of contemporary architecture, one that uses the textile, as it was understood by Semper, as a structure and/or a theoretical framework. This seminar course begins with a general overview of the Semper s theory of dressing (Bekleidung), and its influence on architects at the turn of the twentieth century Europe. Since his theories were particularly resonant in Vienna, we will examine how characteristics of textile are expressed in the buildings of Otto Wagner, Joseph Hoffman, Adolf Loos in Vienna. Working from the growing body of recent literature in architectural theory addressing cladding, enclosure themes, we will discuss critical and methodological approaches to the autonomy of surface in architecture.

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

- Gottfried Semper, 'The Textile Art Considered in Itself and in Relation to Architecture', in The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings, Cambridge, 1989.
- Harry Francis Mallgrave, Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 180-81, 185-88, 293-302.
- Gevork Hartoonian, 'The Fabric of Fabrication', Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 2006, pp. 270-291.
- Adrian Forty, 'Of Cars, Clothes and Carpets: Design Metaphors in Architectural Thought', Journal of Design History, vol. 2, no. 1. (1989), pp. 1-14.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The seminar format will serve as a means of preparing students to conceive and write their own extended research paper on a topic of their choice developed in consultation with the instructor. Presentations and discussion of students papers will be the subject of the three final sessions.

Assessment Methods

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes