Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mima.Tas.Mal.:Kuram,Ele.&Kült.
	English	Material in Architectural Design: Theory, Criticism and Culture
Course Code	MTS 625	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Funda Uz Funda Uz
Course Objectives		1. To consider architectural design knowledge both within theory, criticism and culture of material; 2. Reading architectural design in comparison with the materiality of the world and Turkey axis; 3. The relationship between architectural knowledge and material; explorations, thresholds and actors; 4. Investigation of architectural design in popular culture and everyday life representations through material and questioning the association of these representations with culture; 5. To discuss and explore the possible forms of architectural design
Course Description		Materiality of architecture; relationship between architectural design and material, readings on material history, theory and culture, tectonics: dimension, scale, pattern, prefabrication / thinking with construction, relation between material and non-material, reuse of material, popular culture, representation and material relation, everyday life and material culture
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge, skills and proficiencies: 1. Redefine architectural design knowledge through materials and discuss it in the theory of architecture 2. They deal with material with different aspects and culture 3. Discuss architectural design knowledge with popular culture and everyday life representations 4. Document on the relationship between materials and architectural design through examples in Turkey
Pre-requisite(s)		No
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook
Other References		1. Forty, A., Concrete and Culture; A Material History, Reaktion Books, 2016 2. Lefebvre, H., Gündelik Hayatın Eleştirisi I-II, Düşünsel Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2010. 3. Sykes, C., Yeni Bir Gündem İnşa Etmek, Mimarlık Kuramı, 1993-2009, Küre Yayınları, 2017 4.Forty, A., Words and Buildings, A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture 5. Frampton, K., Studies on Tectonic Culture; The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, MIT Press, 1995

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