At the end of this course, the students; 1) Produce and interpret architectural knowledge through creative thinking and different analysis methods. 2) Make formal, spatial, and textual analysis of organizational elements that produce design and construction process of buildings, their geometric, architectural, urban components and relationships, and different modes of making. 3) Increase the ability of critical examination and visual expression by gaining experience on architectural reproduction and interpretation. 4) Use detailed information about the architectural formations, tectonic, material, structural components of buildings and the methods of their coming together in order to develop professional and cultural knowledge. 5) Examine by investigating architectural elements and the relations between them, which construct the space as a part of the spatial experience.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
-
COURSE DEFINITION
This course aims to provide analytical thinking by introducing students with analysis methods to enable design knowledge. Students develop critical analysis of buildings by focusing on spatial organizations, geometric relationships, architectural form, design interventions, network visualizations and using different methods of analysis, mapping and representation techniques. On their developed reading of the selected buildings, areas or knowledge sources it is aimed to raise awareness about the constituents, invisible elements of architecture and the ways of architectural making that construct the architectural formation. The method is to initiate a discussion on the components of architectural/spatial visualization techniques and relational analysis. It covers architectural analysis methods to enable students to investigate the built environment, spatial representations, and textual analysis from an analytical and critical perspective.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Course Introduction: Information about the aim and method of the course
2nd Week
What is architectural analysis? How and why do we use it?
3rd Week
Architectural analysis methods
4th Week
Architectural analysis methods
5th Week
Architectural analysis methods
6th Week
Mid Term
7th Week
Architectural analysis methods
8th Week
Presentation 1: Source (which?)
9th Week
Architectural analysis methods
10th Week
Architectural analysis methods
11th Week
Presentation 2: Method (how?)
12th Week
Architectural analysis methods
13th Week
Architectural analysis methods
14th Week
Architectural analysis methods
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Baker, Geoffrey H. Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form, Hong Kong: Van Nostrand Reinhold (International), 1989. Baker, Geoffrey H. Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form (London: Spon Press, Third Edition, 1996). Borden, Gail Peter. Process: Material and Representation in Architecture, London, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014. De Alba, Roberto. Paul Rudolph. The Late Work (N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003) Eisenman, Peter. Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000, N.Y: Rizzoli, 2008. Eisenman, Peter. The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture (Baden-Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2006). Fraser, Murray. ?A Two-fold Movement: Design Research as Dialectical Critical Practice?, In Design Research in Architecture, ed. Murray Fraser (Surrey-England: Ashgate Publishing, 2013):217-248. Hoesli, Bernard. ?Commentary?, In Transparency by C. Rowe and R. Slutzky, Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhause Verlag, 1997, pp. 57-83. Marcus, George H. and Whitaker, William. The Houses of Louis Kahn (New Haven and London: Yale Uni. Press, 2013). Radford, A., Morkoç, S., and Srivastava, A. The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings, London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Rohan, Timothy. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (New Haven and London: Yale Uni. Press, 2014). Rowe, Colin. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, and Other Essays, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1976. Rowe, Colin and Slutzky, Robert. ?Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal?, In Transparency by C. Rowe and R. Slutzky, Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhause Verlag, 1997, pp. 21-56. Rowe, Colin and Slutzky, Robert. ?Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Part II?, in As I was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays, vol.1, Colin Rowe, ed. by Alexander Caragonne, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996, pp.73-106. Salottobuono, ?Revealing the Secrets behind the Designs?, MAS Context, issue: 15 (Fall 2012): 46-63. Unwin, Simon. Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand, London, N.Y.: Routledge, 2010. Onat, Esen. Mimarlık, Form ve Geometri, Ankara: Efil Yayınları, 2017 (ilk Basım 1991)
