MTS 502E - Architecture Design Theory

Course Objectives

1. To provide an understanding of various theoretical approaches through addressing architecture and architectural thought comprehensively / broadly / prevalently.
2. To offer capabilities of scientific, professional and intellectual questioning, analysis and interpretation.

Course Description

Theoretical studies in architecture and design; discussion on different understandings and their further expansions of the 20th century architectural thought and architectural production; relation of architecture with other disciplines, the interdisciplinarity of architectural knowledge; modernity; critical theory; phenomenology; contemporary critical issues: politics-architecture, cultural studies, cities-architecture, housing research, sustainability, computational design, space and morphological studies.