Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Çağdaş Mimarlık
	English	Contemporary Architecture
Course Code	MIM 321E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	2	2	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Murat Gül
Course Objectives		1. To introduce the products and actors of the architectural milieu from the 19thcentury onwards; 2. To provoke historically grounded, critical and comparative thinking about the architecture of the period in consideration.
Course Description		The social and cultural bases of modernity, Art Nouveau, Modernity and avant-garde approaches, Bauhaus, The pioneers of modern architecture, The congress of CIAM, The application of modernity to the urban scale, Art Deco, Totalitarian architecture, Modernism during the 1950s and 1960s: The International Style, The sensibility of historic environment and the early reactions against modernism, Postmodernism, current trends in architecture, Modernism in the architectural milieu of Republican period in Turkey .
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Textbook		Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames & Hudson: 1992.
Other References		Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture, Oxford University Press: 2002.