At the end of this course, the students; 1) Use photography, which is one of the different representation methods in architecture, as a tool that feeds the architectural design process and expression. 2) Gain ideas and experience about the effect of photography on architectural production and reproduction. 3) Search and comparatively question the effect of photography in creating new ideas and concepts in visual history and theory. 4) Comprehend the role of photography in spatial perception, representation, narration and architectural history. 5) Examine architectural photography as a part of spatial experience.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
The course aims to demonstrate an understanding of visual and architectural values using different photographic techniques. With the representations produced by camera, students experience various places, and reproduce the explored spatial qualities in a unique narrative. Within the scope of the course, form, content, and composition are discussed in terms of their effects in re-creation/re-reading of space by questioning and developing different looking/seeing methods.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Photography as a medium of architectural communication. Photography and modernism
2nd Week
Ways of seeing- frame of reference
3rd Week
Ways of seeing- frame of reference
4th Week
Ways of seeing-form(at), context, composition
5th Week
Ways of seeing-form(at), context, composition
6th Week
Architectural documentation- photographic realism
7th Week
Architectural documentation- photographic realism
8th Week
Presentations
9th Week
Architectural Experimentation-fictive distortion
10th Week
Architectural Experimentation-fictive distortion
11th Week
Architectural Experimentation-fictive distortion
12th Week
City Readings with Photographs
13th Week
City Readings with Photographs
14th Week
Final Discussions
15th Week
16th Week
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Açelya Allmer, Erdem Yıldırım. ?Le Corbusier Mimarlığı ve Onun Fotografik Temsili: Foto-Mekan, Foto-Hikaye, Foto-Duvar?. https://www.academia.edu/21493075/Le_Corbusier_Mimarl%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1_ve_Onun_Fotografik_Temsili_Foto-Mekan_Foto-Hikaye_Foto-Duvar?auto=download Beatriz Colomina. Mahremiyet ve Kamusallık, çev. Aziz Ufuk Kılıç, İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık, 2011. Roland Barthles. Camera Lucida: Fotoğraf Üzerine Notlar, çev. Reha Ahçakaya, İstanbul: Altıkırkbeş Yayın, 2011 Susan Sontag. Fotoğraf Üzerine. Çev. Osman Akınhay, İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı, 2008. John Berger. Bir Fotoğrafı Anlamak, çev. Beril Eyüboğlu, İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık, 2015 Jale N. Erzen, Fotoğraf Notları, İstanbul: Say Yayınları, 2004 Bahattin Öztuncay, Frances Terpak, Peter Louis Bonfitto, Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem. Camera Ottomana, çev. Ayşen Gür, İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2015