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
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DENIZ GÜNER

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

This is an introductory course presenting the fundamental theories and related concepts of space. Its objective is to present the overlaps and differences among different theoretical approaches to space within the field of philosophy, geography, sociology, art history, psychology, as well as history and theory of architecture, and facilitate discussions and a comprehensive understanding of the relationships among different layers and dimensions that construct space.

In particular, the course aims to go beyond the conceptualizations of architectural space as a perceived enclosure and seeks ways for opening our understanding of space not as a dead matter but as a living, lived, and actual world of events and thoughts constantly re-produced.

The content of the course consists of: main theories and historical categorizations of space; the relationship between time and space; phenomenology of space; the relationship between life of space and the spatial practices; space and motion, architectural space, physical space, abstract space, power and space, body, gender, race and spatial productions; and art of space, spaces of art.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the multi-layered structure of the space conception
2   To be familiar with the multiple meanings of the phenomenon of Space in the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and science
3   To distinguish the periodical differances between the varying receptions of space
4   To describe the social, economic, political, cultural factors and parameters which transform the space phenomenon
5   To formulate the current theoretical approaches on architectural space by visually, verbally and in writing

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction LECTURE: 'Sociological Origins of Critical Historiyography'
2 Spatial Turn Barney Warf, Santa Arias (Eds). The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, 2008
3 Re-Materialising Cultural Geography 1 Edward S. Casey. `Giving a Face to Place in the Present: Bachelard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Irigaray' in The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History, University of California Press, 1997, ss.285-330.
4 Re-Materialising Cultural Geography 2 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Blackwell Pub, 1989; David Harvey, `Mekan ve Zaman Deneyimi' içinde Postmodernliğin Durumu; Kültürel Değişimin Kökenleri, Çev. Sungur Savran, Metis Yay., 1997, ss 227-360.
5 Symbolic Space & Habitus Pierre Bourdieu. `The Kabyle House or the World Reversed' Algeria 1960, Cambridge University Press (1963), 1979, ss. 133-153
6 Social Space & Lived Space & Experience 1 Setha M. Low, Denise Lawrence-Zunigais. `Locating Culture' in Setha M. Low, Denise Lawrence-Zunigais (Eds), The Anthropology of Space and Place; Locating Culture, Blackwell, 2003, ss. 1-47
7 Social Space & Lived Space & Experience 2 Henri Lefebvre. The Production of Space, Çev; Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1991; Henri Lefebvre. Mekanın Üretimi, Sel Yayıncılık, 2014.
8 Social Space & Lived Space & Experience 3 Michel de Certeau. The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, 1984
9 Mid-Term Exam DISCUSSION: Social Cartography: Mapping the Spatial Logic of Society & Power LECTURE: `Mekâna Içkin Iktidar Ilişkilerini Deşifre Etme Yöntemi Olarak Aktör Ağ Teorisi'ne Bir Katkı: Kronolojik Ilişki Diyagramı'
10 Space as the Execution and Manifestation of Power Michel Foucault, `Space, Knowledge, and Power' in Paul Rabinow, The Foucault Reader, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, ss. 239-256
11 Heterogeneous Space Michael U. Hensel, Christopher Hight, Achim Menges. `Heterogeneous Space of Morpho-Ecologies' in M. U. Hensel, C. Hight, A. Menges (Eds), Space Reader; Heterogeneous Space in Architecture, AD Reader, Wiley & Sons, 2009, ss. 195-215.
12 Performative Space Ayman Kassem. 'A Performative Understanding of Spatial Design, Learning from Exhibitions', EAEA142019, SHS Web of Conferences 64, 03006, 2019, ss. 1-14 Jan Smitheram. `Spatial Performativity; Spatial Performance , Architectural Theory Review 16-1, (2011), ss. 55-69. Bo Stjerne Thomsen. `Performative Environments; Architecture Acting with Flows , Architectural Theory Review, 13-3, 2008, ss. 320-336
13 Consuming Spaces John Urry. Consuming Places, Routledge, 1995; John Urry, Mekânları Tüketmek, Çev.:R. G. Öğdül, Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1999 John Urry, Jonas Larsen. The Tourist Gaze 3.0, Sage Publications, 2011; John Urry, Turist Bakışı, Çev. Enis Tataroğlu, Ibrahim Yıldız, Bilge Su Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2009

Recomended or Required Reading

Benett, T., Grossberg, L., Morris, M. (Eds.), New Keywords A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Blackwell, 2005.

Bottomore, T. (Ed.), A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Blackwell, 2001 (1983)

Copleston, F., A History of Philosophy (9 volumes). Image Books 1993-1994 (1946 - 1974)

Gieseking, J J.; Mangold, W.; Katz, C.; Low, S.; Saegert, S. (Eds), People, Place and Space; A Reader, Routledge, 2012.

Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. (Eds.), Key Thinkers on Space and Place. SAGE Pub. 2010

Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. (Eds.), Mekan ve Yer Üzerine Büyük Düşünürler, Litera Yayıncılık. 2018

Lacey, A. R., Dictionary of Philosophy. Routledge, 1996 (1976)

Williams, R., Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford Uni. Press, 1985 (1976)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be proceed with the theoretical lectures, as well as with the discussions on the students' individual researches and presentations. Students will prepare a final report and presentation on their research topics.

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Attendance and Participation in Discussions: % 10
Presentation of a Week s readings: % 40
Final Work: Paper or an Exam: % 50

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

This is a graduate seminar, in which you will read minimum 50 pages of texts each week that you may be unfamiliar and find challenging. It is important that you put the necessary effort in reading and understanding the texts, which means that you may have to re-read, take notes and summarize before coming to class. Re-reading may also include looking up for both terms and concepts in dictionaries and encyclopedias and for the biography of the writers for situating them in a historical and philosophical context.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof Dr Deniz Güner
deniz.guner@deu.edu.tr
0232 301 84 96

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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