MİM304

School of Architecture and Design \ Architecture

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Compulsory

English

MİM 313

Architecture

The course is structured into two main sections: architectural developments in Europe, America, and the non-Western world, and 20th-century Turkish architecture. The first section explores the major movements and key architects of modern architecture on a global scale, while the second focuses on modern architectural transformations in Turkey. Throughout this process, fundamental theories of architectural history, significant architectural examples, and architectural discourses will be analyzed in detail.

SURVEY BOOKS
• Ching, Francis, Mark M. Jarzombek & Vikramaditya Prakash. 2011. A Global History of Architecture. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. (LIBRARY)
• Fazio, Michael W., Marian Moffett & Lawrance Wodehouse. 2009. World History of Architecture. 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw Hill. (LIBRARY)
• Ingersoll, Richard and Spiro Kostof. 2013. World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History. Oxford University Press.
• Kostof, Spiro. 2010. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. (LIBRARY)
• Trachtenberg, M. & Hyman, Isabelle. Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernity, second edition, Upper Saddle Rive, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
• Watkin, David. 1986. A History of Western Architecture. New York: Thames and Hudson. (LIBRARY)
SPECIALIZED BOOKS ON MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND ONWARDS
• Benevelo, L. (1971). History of Modern Architecture. MIT Press.
• Colquhoun, A. (2002). Modern Architecture. Oxford University Press.
• Conrads, U. (1970). Programmes and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture (M. Bullock, Trans.). MIT Press.
• Curtis, W. J. R. (2009). Modern Architecture since 1900. Phaidon.
• Doordan, D. P. (2002). Twentieth-Century Architecture. Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers.
• Frampton, K. (1996). Modern Architecture: A Critical History, 1992. Thames and Hudson.
• Jencks, C. A. (1977). The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. Rizzoli.
SPECIALIZED BOOKS ON TURKEY
• Aslanoğlu, İ. (2001). Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Mimarlığı. ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Yayınları.
• Batur, A. (2005). A Concise History: Architecture in Turkey During the 20th Century. Chamber of Architects of Turkey Publications.
• Bozdoğan, S. (2001). Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic. University of Washington Press.
• Bozdoğan, S., & Akcan, E. (2012). Turkey: Modern Architectures in History. Reaktion Books.
• Holod, R., Evin, A., & Özkan, S. (Eds.). (2005). Modern Turkish Architecture (2nd edition, First edition by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1984). Chamber of Architects of Turkey Publications.
• Sey, Y. (Ed.). (1998). 75 Yılda Değişen Kent ve Mimarlık. Tarih Vakfı Yayınları.
• Tanyeli, U. (2007). Mimarlığın Aktörleri: Türkiye 1900-2000. Garanti Galeri.
• Vanlı, Ş. (2006). Mimariden Konuşmak: Bilinmek İstenmeyen 20. Yüzyıl Türk Mimarlığı Eleştirel Bakış. Şevki Vanlı Mimarlık Vakfı Yayınları.

This course aims to examine the political, cultural, social, and economic dynamics that shaped modern architecture throughout the 20th century, enabling students to approach architectural history from a critical and analytical perspective. By contributing to the understanding of architecture, urbanization, and design processes in a global context, the course seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of the formation processes of modern architecture.

1. Understanding the key movements, individuals, and historical processes that led to the emergence of modern architecture. (Knowledge)
2. Critically evaluating the relationship between architectural production and its political, economic, and cultural contexts. (Skill)
3. Developing the ability to analyze architectural, urbanization, and design processes on a global scale. (Skill)
4. Interpreting the development of 20th-century architecture in Turkey and architectural theories within both international and Turkish contexts. (Competency)

Week 1: First Meeting + Introduction of the Course
Week 2: The Formative years of Modern Architecture I
Week 3: The Formative years of Modern Architecture II, assignment I submission
Week 4: Modern Architecture Between the Wars (1918-1939), Europe I
Week 5: Modern Architecture Between the Wars (1918-1939), Europe II, assignment II submission
Week 6: Assignment III submission
Week 7: Modern Architecture until the 1950s, Dissemination and Change After 1940 Rebuilding After the War I
Week 8: Dissemination and Change After 1940, Rebuilding After the War II, An Era of Pluralism, the 1970- 2000s, Assignment IV submission
Week 9: Assignment V submission
Week 10: Early 20th Century: from the Empire to the Turkish Republic I, Architecture in Türkiye, 1930-1950
Week 11: Architecture in Türkiye, 1950-1980
Week 12: Assignment VI-VII, Presentations, Discussions and Submission

• Assignment I 5 %
• Assignment II 10 %
• Assignment III 15 %
• Assignment IV 15 %
• Assignment V 15 %
• Assignment VI-VII 30 %
• Participation/Motivation 10 %