ARCH 554 | Course Introduction and Application Information - M.SC. In Architecture (With Thesis)

Course Name

Architectural Historiography

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
ARCH 554	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	7.5

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	Second Cycle
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	-
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives

Understanding the process and issues of writing architectural history.

Learning Outcomes

The students who succeeded in this course;

Student will be able to identify the technological aspects of writing architectural history.
Student will be able to identify the formal aspects of writing architectural history.
Student will be able identify the phenomenological aspects of writing architectural history.
Student will be able identify the structuralist aspects of writing architectural history.
Student will be able identify the critical aspects of writing architectural history.
Student will be able to explain the differences between content, scope and approach in architectural history writing.

Course Description

The analysis and discussion of key architectural history texts.

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation	Learning Outcome
1	Intro: What is Architectural History?
2	Ancient Greece and Rome	Reading from Vitruvius
3	Middle Ages	Readings from Villard de Honnecourt and Abbot Suger
4	The Renaissance	Readings from Alberti, Vasari, Serlio, da Vignola and Palladio
5	Age of the Baroque	Readings from Scamozzi, Guarini and Piranesi
6	MidTerm Exam 1
7	The 17th Century	Readings from Le Muet, Blondel, Perrault, and Fréart de Chambray
8	The 18th Century	Readings from, Laugier, Ledoux, Boullée and Durand
9	19th Century Classicism	Readings from Schinkel, von Klenze and Semper
10	19th Century Nostalgia	Readings from William Morris, John Ruskin A.W. Pugin and ViolletleDuc
11	MidTerm Exam 2
12	20th Century – 1	Readings from Henry Russell Hitchcock, Pevsner, and Mumford
13	20th Century – 2	Readings from Giedion, Zevi, NorbergSchulz, and Frampton
14	20th Century – 3	Readings from Rykwert, Tafuri, Kostof, William JR Curtis and Jencks
15	20th Century – 4	Readings from Vesely, Colomina, Wigley, and Jarzombek
16	Review of the Semester

Course Notes/Textbooks

none

Suggested Readings/Materials

Abbot Suger. On the Abbey Church of St. Denis and its Art Treasures, Erwin Panofsky and Gerda PanofskySoergel (eds.), Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press, 1979. Alberti, Leon Battista. Ten Books on Architecture. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach and Robert Tavenor (trans.), Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 1991. Blondel, Jacques Francois. Course of Architecture. London: Kessinger Publishing, 2009. Bowie, Theodore. The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, New York: Dover Publications, 2005. Bucher, François. Architector: The Lodge Books and Sketchbooks of Medieval Architects, New York: Abaris Books, 1979. Colomina, Beatriz. Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 1996. Curtis, William J R. Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon Press, 1996. Durand, JeanNicholasLouis. Lectures on Architecture, David Britt (trans.) Frampton, Kenneth. Modern Architecture: A Critical History, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Giedion, Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Hitchcock, HenryRussell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, New Haven, USA: Yale University Press, 1989. Hitchcock, HenryRussell and Philip Johnson. The International Style, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997 Jarzombek, Mark (with Vikram Prakash and Francis D.K. Ching). A Global History of Architecture, New York: Wiley & Sons, 2006. Jencks, Charles. The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of PostModernism, New Haven, USA: Yale University Press, 2002. Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, New York: Monacelli, 1979. Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1985. Kruft, HannoWalter. A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994. Laugier, MarcAntoine. Essay on Architecture, New York: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1985. Ledoux, ClaudeNicolas. L'Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997. Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870, London: WileyBlackwell, 2005. Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, New York: Mariner Books, 1968. NorbergSchulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, New York: Rizzoli Press, 1991. Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books on Architecture, Robert Tavernor, Richard Schofield (trans.), Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2002. Perrault, Claude. Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients, Indra Kagis McEwen (trans.), Los Angeles: The Getty Center for the History of Art, 1996. Pevsner, Nikolaus. An Outline of European Architecture, London: Gibbs Smith, 2009. Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. The Polemical Works, John WiltonEly (trans.) London: Ashgate Publishing, 1972. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. Contrasts, or, A Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, and Similar Buildings of the Present Day; Showing the Present Decay of Taste, University of Michigan, 2009. Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture, New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Rykwert, Joseph. The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 1988. Scamozzi, Vincenzo. The Idea of Universal Architecture Vol. 6: The Architectural Orders and Their Application, Jan Derwig (trans.), Rome: Architectura & Natura Press, 2006. Serlio, Sebastiano. On Architecture, Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (trans.), New Haven, USA: Yale University Press, 2005. Tafuri, Manfredo. The Sphere and the Labyrinth: AvantGardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s, Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly (trans.), Cambridge, USA: The MIT Pres, 1990. Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Time. Julia Conway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella (trans.), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. Vesely, Dalibor. Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2004. da Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi. The Five Orders of Architecture, John Leeke (trans.), New York: Dover Pulications, 2010. ViolletleDuc, EugéneEmmanuel. Lectures on Architecture, New York: Dover Publications, 1987. Vitruvius. Ten Books on Architecture, Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe (eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Wigley, Mark. White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2001. Zevi, Bruno. The Modern Language of Architecture, New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm	2	50
Final Exam	1	50
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade		50
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade		50
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	12	10	120
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments			0
Presentation / Jury			0
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms	2	12	24
Final Exam	1	33	33
		Total	225

#	PC Sub	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	PC Sub	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to advance specialized architectural knowledge based on qualifications acquired at the undergraduate level.		-	-	X	-	-
2	To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies.		-	-	-	X	-
3	To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work.		-	-	-	-	X
4	To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines.		-	-	-	X	-
5	To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice.		-	-	-	X	-
6	To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently.		-	-	-	-	X
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.		-	X	-	-	-
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.		-	-	X	-	-
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.		-	-	-	X	-
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.		-	-	-	-	X

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