TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Instructor Elif Cemre Çelikcan Yozçu
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Make a historical reading on context debates in architecture and discuss them in the focus of architectural design. 2) Develop a perspective to evaluate architectural discourse and practice by examining the methods and approaches developed on the physical and social context in architecture. 3) Develop the ability to read and evaluate architectural projects in relation to their physical and social context. 4) Learn the architect's methods of transferring contextual knowledge to research and design and use them in architectural design processes.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	-
COURSE DEFINITION	The aim of this course is to convey and discuss the notion of context, which has taken place in architectural discourse and practice throughout history, in the focus of architectural design; to examine the methods and approaches developed on the physical and social context in architecture and to investigate the role of architect in interpreting the contextual knowledge and transferring it to the design.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Architecture and context: introduction and definitions 2nd Week Context debates in architecture 3rd Week Context debates in architecture 4th Week Context debates in architecture 5th Week Context debates in architecture 6th Week Classwork on readings 7th Week Context debates in architecture 8th Week Context debates in architecture 9th Week Classwork on readings 10th Week MIDTERM 11th Week Determining the topics of the term projects 12th Week Classwork on the term project drafts 13th Week Classwork on the term project drafts 14th Week Submission of the term project general review
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Brent Brolin, ?Architecture in Context: Fitting New Buildings with Old?, The Harvard Architecture Review, 2, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981. ? Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn, ?Why Site Matters?, in Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn (eds), Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, New York: Routledge, 2005. Christian Norberg- ?Schulz, Genius Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, New York: Rizzoli, 1980. ? Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter, Collage City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979. George Dodds, ?Architecture as Instauration?, Architectural Research Quarterly, 5, no. 2 (2001). ? K. Michael Hays, ?Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form?, Perspecta, 21, (1984). Keith Ray, Contextual Architecture: Responding to Existing Style, New York: McGraw Hill, 1980. ? Kenneth Frampton, ?Towards A Critical Regionalism: Six Points For An Architecture Of Resistance?, 1983. Linda Groat, ?Measuring the Fit of New to Old?, Architecture: The AIA Journal, 72, no. 11 (1983). ? Mark Wigley and Philip Johnson, Deconstructivist Architecture: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. Robert Venturi, ?Context in Architectural Composition?, in Robert Venturi (ed.), Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture. A View from the Drafting Room, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Sandy Isenstadt, ?Contested Contexts?, in Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn (eds), Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, New York: Routledge, 2005. Stan Allen, ?From Object to Field?, AD Profile 127, Architectural Design, 67, no. 5/6 (1997). William S. Saunders (ed.), The New Architectural Pragmatism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture, Discussion, Questions/Answers, Case Study
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 20 Quiz 5 15 Attendance 1 5 Presentation of Article 2 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 6 2 12 Preparation for Final exam 1 25 25 Course hours 13 2 26 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 18 18 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 3 3 Homework Presentation (including preperation) Workshop Term Project Research Case Study Presentation Article 5 4 20 Weekly Articles and Resource Research Total Workload 106 Total Workload / 30 3,53 ECTS Credits of the Course 4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No