COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUTKU DIDEM ALTUN

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

The studio will explore architectural design as both a form of active analysis and a form of developing new architectural ideas responsive to the analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Analyse already existing institutional and social dynamics.
2   Construct a set of common themes.
3   Evaluate architectural concepts and design intent.
4   Develop ideas with respect to the given situation.
5   Demonstrate the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Information about the subject and the operation of the course
2 Presentation
3 Case Studies - Strategic Plan & Ecological Urbanism & Tactical Urbanism
4 Case Studies - Student Presentations
5 Case Studies - Student Presentations
6 Excursion to Meles River Basin
7 Strategic Plan - Re-Reading of Meles River Basin
8 Strategic Plan - Re-Reading of Meles River Basin
9 Mid-term Exam (Poster Presentations on Meles River Basin)
10 From Vision to Master Plan
11 From Vision to Master Plan
12 From Vision to Master Plan
13 Revision
14 Presentation Techniques
15 Final Jury

Recomended or Required Reading

James Corner, Alison Bick Hirsch. The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010, Princeton Architectural Press, 2014
William S Saunders (Ed). Designed Ecologies; The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu, Birkhauser, 2012
Yu Kongjian, Gary Austin. Sustainable Development and Constructed Wetlands, Routledge, 2016
Kelly Shannon. Eco-engineering for Water; From Soft to Hard and Back in S.T.A. Pickett et al. (Eds), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design; Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities, Future City 3, Spirnger, 163-182.
Jil Desimini, Charles Waldheim, Mohsen Mostafavi. Cartographic Grounds; Projecting the Landscape Imaginary, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016
Martin Prominski, Antje Stokman, Daniel Stimberg, Hinnerk Voermanek, Susanne Zeller (Eds). River.Space.Design; Planning Strategies, Methods and Projects for Urban Streams, Birkhauser, 2013
Charles Waldheim, Ying-Yu Hung, Gerdo Aquino, Julia Czerniak, Adriaan Geuze, Alexander Robinson, Matthew Skjonsberg, Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA, Birkhäuser Architecture, 2010
Pierre Belanger. Landscape as Infrastructure; A Base Primer, Routledge, 2016
Cannon B Ivers. Staging Urban Landscapes: The Activation and Curation of Flexible Public Spaces, Birkhauser, 2018
Justina Ragai yte. Urban Spaces Converted to Public Places, PhD Thesis, TU Delft, 2014
William Andrew Weigand. Technocarpet; Supporting a Culture of Congestion, Master Thesis, Syracuse University, 2012
Hanna Assargård. Landscape Urbanism; From a Methodological Perspective and a Conceptual Framework, Master Thesis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2011
Ebru Bingöl. Site as a Generative Force to Architectural Theory, PhD Thesis, IYTE, 2017
Chris Reed, Nina-Marie Lister, Ecology and Design Parallel Genealogies, Places Journal, April 2014
Alex Wall_ Programming Urban Surface; Recovering Landscape in James Corner (Ed), Recovering Landscape, Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, ss 233-249
James Corner_ The Agency of Mapping; Speculation, Critique and Invention, in D Cosgrove (Ed), Mappings, Reaktion Books, 1999, ss 214-25
James Corner_ Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes in James Corner (Ed), Recovering Landscape, Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, ss 153-169
Michael Flynn. Planting Systems Lecture , GSD 2241; Landscape Representation III, Harvard 2011 Fall https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/7/12542/files/2016/03/111019_GSD-2241_PLANTING-SYSTEMS-LECTURE_MICHAEL-FLYNN-xuevxi.pdf
Christophe Girot, Immanent Landscape Harvard Design Magazine 36 Landscape Architecture s Core , http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/36/immanent-landscape

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 1


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Project 100%
(PO1, PO3, PO5, PO7, PO10)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr Deniz Güner 0 232 301 84 96 deniz.guner@deu.edu.tr
Doç. Dr. Burcu Gülay Taşçı 0 232 301 84 95 burcu.gulay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Tutorials 10 4 40
Field trip 2 6 12
Preparation before/after weekly lectures (field trip) 2 10 20
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 40 40
Preparing Presentations 1 20 20
Final Project 1 90 90
Final jury 1 6 6
Mid-term (Concept Jury) 1 6 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 254

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51