MIM 4013E - Architecture and Its Effects

Course Objectives

This course deals with architecture in relation, by questioning the assigned roles and relationships of: the architect figure, disciplinary codes and conventions, mediums, uses, environmental, contextual and cultural dependencies, contingencies and divergences, as well as the reciprocal relationships architecture instigates with life.

Course Description

Architecture, whether in the form of ideas, built or unbuilt work, representation, text, discourse or process, can be considered as a stimulator of spatial, social, economic, ideological or aesthetic, etc. influences. This course aims to reconsider architecture, not as an isolated discipline, but as a praxis that dwells inside and triggers a larger dynamic, complex and contingent field of relationships. Through lectures, seminars, on-site investigations and designerly research using various modes of documentation, the semester will focus on exploring, understanding, reviewing and representing contemporary architectural production and discourse -including current examples in Istanbul- in relation to their experiential, socio-cultural, material, environmental etc. effects.