GRADUATE SCHOOL
M.SC. In Architecture (With Thesis)
ARCH 554 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Architectural Historiography
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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 554
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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 | Understanding the process and issues of writing architectural history. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The analysis and discussion of key architectural history texts. |
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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 | 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. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
2
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50
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| Final Exam |
1
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50
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
50
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
50
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| Total |
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 |
12
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10
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120
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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 |
0
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
2
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12
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24
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| Final Exam |
1
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33
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33
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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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1
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2
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3
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4
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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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