GRADUATE SCHOOL
M.SC. In Architecture (With Thesis)
ARCH 551 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Reading Buildings, Building Texts
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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ARCH 551
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
Second Cycle
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| Course Objectives | To acquaint students with the relation between architecture and literature and to provide different ways of reading buildings and looking at the pivotal texts of Western culture from an architectural point of view. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course focuses on the acts of reading and writing in the architectural context. This involves both the reading of threedimensional architectural expressions and the analysis of narratives of the built environment. The course centres on the pivotal concepts of the relation between architecture and literature which developed during the Middle Ages, elaborated in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and embellished in the course of the twentieth century. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses |
X
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WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Ut Pictura Poesis and Paragone | Horace. “Ars Poetica (extracts).” In Horace for Students of Literature. pp. 722. Michelangelo. “Da Scultori.” Madrigal. Wystan Hugh Auden. Musée des Beaux Arts. William Carlos Williams. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William Shakespeare. “Sonnet 55.” In William Shakespeare: The Poems, p. 247. |
| 3 | Ekphrasis and Ekphrastic Architecture | Plato. “Phaedrus (extracts).” In Collected Dialogues. Homer. “Iliad (extracts).” In Iliad of Homer. Virgil. The Aeneid (extracts). John Keats. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Henrik Ibsen. The Lady From the Sea (extracts). “Gilgamesh (extracts)” In Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. |
| 4 | Rhetorical Space in the Middle Ages | Leo of Ostia. “The Chronicle of Montecassino.” In A Documentary History of Art, pp.918. Abbot Suger. “The Book of Suger, Abbot of St Dennis.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 2223 William Durandus. “The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 2324. |
| 5 | Architecture Parlante (Speaking Architecture) | Francis Bacon. “Of Building.” In The Essays, pp. 19396. Emil Kaufmann. Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu (extracts). John Ruskin. “Preface (extracts).” In The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Anthony Vidler, “The Idea of Type: The Transformation of the Academic Ideal, 17501830.” In Oppositions, pp. 43959. |
| 6 | Ars Memorativa (The Art of Memory) | Cicero, Ad Herennium (extracts). Cicero, De Oratore (extracts). Yates, A. F. The Art of Memory (extracts). |
| 7 | Travelogue and Textual City | Pierre Gilles. The Antiquities of Constantinople. Hugh Ferriss. “The Metropolis of Tomorrow.” In Architectural Theory V. 2, pp. 15556. Archigram. “Manifesto.” In Architectural Theory V.2, p. 356. Bernard Tschumi. “Programmatic Account.” In Manhattan Transcripts, pp. 812. |
| 8 | Fictive Places and Utopias | Dante Alighieri. Divine Comedy (extracts). Thomas Moore. Utopia (extracts). Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities (extracts). Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed (extracts). Michel Foucault. “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias.” In Rethinking Architecture, pp.35056. |
| 9 | Picturesque and the Sublime | Longinus “On the Sublime.” In Aristotle, the Poetics; ‘Longinus’, pp. 121254. Francis Bacon. “Of Gardens.” In The Essays, pp. 197202. William Temple. “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, or, of Gardening in the year 1685.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, p. 229. Edmund Burke. “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (extracts).” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 27383. |
| 10 | Time and Beyond | H. G. Wells. The Time Machine (extracts). Guillaume Apollinaire. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (19131916), pp. 6061. Paul Virilio. “The State of Emergency.” In The Virilio Reader, pp. 4657. |
| 11 | Power and Control | Gilles Deleuze. “Postscript on Control Societies.” In Architecture Theory, pp. 24852. Michel Foucault. “Panopticism (extracts).” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 35667. . Discipline and Punish (extracts). George Orwell. Nineteen Eightyfour (Extracts). |
| 12 | Textual Dwelling | Martin Heidegger. “Building, Dwelling, Thinking (extracts).” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 100124. Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space (extracts). Peter Hedges. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (extracts). |
| 13 | Signs and Symbolic Architecture | Ferdinand de Saussure. Course in General Linguistics (extracts). Roland Barthes. “The Eiffel Tower. “In The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, pp. 318. Georges Bataille. “The Obelisk.” In Architecture Theory, pp. 1725. |
| 14 | and its Deconstruction | Jacques Derrida. “Letter to Peter Eisenman,” In Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture, pp. 2028. . “Architecture Where the Desire May Live.” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 31923. . “Point De Folie – Maintenant L’architecture.“ In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 32436. Daniel Libeskind. “Symbol and Interpretation.” In Architectural Theory V. 2, pp. 46465. |
| 15 | Presentations | |
| 16 | Review |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (19131916). Trans. Anne Hyde Greet. Los Anleles, London: University of California Press, 2004. Bacon, Francis. The Essays. Ed. With an introduction by John Pitcher. London; New York, etc: Penguin, 1985. Ballantyne, Andrew, ed. Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture. London; New York: Continuum, 2005. Barthes, Roland. “The Eiffel Tower. “In The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Trans. Richard Howard, pp. 318. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1997. Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities (extracts). Trans. William Weaver. San Diego; New York; London: Harcourt, 1974. Cicero, M. T. De Oratore. Trans. E.W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1942. Cicero, M. T. Rhetorica Ad Herennium: De Ratione Dicendi. Trans. H, Caplan, ed. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1954. Derrida, Jacques. “Letter to Peter Eisenman,” In Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture. Trans. Hillary P. Hanel, pp. 2028. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Penguin, 1977. “Gilgamesh” In Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Trans. Stephanie Dalley. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Gilles, Pierre. The Antiquities of Constantinople. Trans. John Ball. New York: Italica Press, 1988. Hays, Michael, ed. Oppositions. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. New York; London, etc: Washington Square Press, 1991. Homer. “Iliad.” In The Iliad of Homer. Trans. Richard Lattimore. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1951, 1961. Horace. “Ars Poetica.” In Horace for Students of Literature: The “Ars Poetica” and Its Tradition. Trans. Leon Golden, pp. 722. Florida: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. Kaufmann, Emil. “Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 42 (October 1952): 53858. Leach, Neil, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London; New York: Routledge, 1997. Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. New York: Harper Collins, 1974. Leo of Ostia. “The Chronicle of Montecassino.” In A Documentary History of Art: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Vol. 1. Trans. Herbert Bloch Ed. Elizabeth Gilmore Holt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. 918. Longinus “On the Sublime.” In Aristotle, the Poetics; ‘Longinus’, On the Sublime; Demetrius, On Style. Trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. Ed. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; London: William Heineman, 1982. 121254. Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Christina Contandriopoulos. Architectural Theory: An Anthology From 1871 to 2005. V 1. Malden; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008. Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Christina Contandriopoulos. Architectural Theory: An Anthology From 1871 to 2005. V 1. Malden; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008. Orwell, George. Nineteen Eightyfour. New York; London, etc: Penguin, 2003. Plato. “Phaedrus.” In Collected Dialogues. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, 475525. Princeton, NJ: Prinston University Press, 1961. Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Introduction by Sir Arnold Lunn. London: Dent, 1907; New York: Dutton, 1969. Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 55.” In William Shakespeare: The Poems. Ed. David Bevington, 247. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. Ed. Charles Bally ve Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin. New York; Toronto; London: Mc Graw Hill, 1966. Tschumi, Bernard. Manhattan Transcripts: Theoretical Projects. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1981. Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. W. F. Jackson Knight. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,1956. Virilio, Paul. The Virilio Reader. Ed. James der Derian. Malden, Mass; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1998. Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. New York; London, etc: Penguin, 2002. Yates, A. F. The Art of Memory. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1966. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | None |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury |
1
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30
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| Project |
1
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40
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam |
1
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30
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
70
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
30
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ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
15
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7
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105
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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20
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20
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| Project |
1
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40
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40
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
0
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| Final Exam |
1
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12
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12
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| Total |
225
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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5
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| 1 | To be able to advance specialized architectural knowledge based on qualifications acquired at the undergraduate level. |
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| 2 | To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies. |
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| 3 | To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work. |
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| 4 | To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines. |
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| 5 | To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice. |
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| 6 | To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently. |
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| 7 | To be able to communicate contemporary developments in architecture and one’s own work in professional and interdisciplinary environments in written, oral or visual forms. |
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| 8 | To be able to consider, control and communicate social, scientific and ethical values in the accumulation, interpretation, publication and/or application of architectural data. |
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| 9 | To be able to critically analyze the norms that inform spatial relationships and their social implications and to develop original thesis according to guidelines. |
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| 10 | To be able to keep up with developing knowledge in Architecture and participate in academic and professional discussions using at least one foreign language. |
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