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Course Name	Turkish	Mimarlıkta Psikoloji
	English	Psychology in Architecture
Course Code	MTS 623	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Elmira Ayşe Gür
Course Objectives		1. To examine the contributions of psychology to architecture in the process of creating and using space, focusing on the concept of space being a living atmosphere reflecting human emotions, perceptions, values, tastes and experiences. 2. Ensuring that students look at their own cognitive processes consciously; On the other hand, understanding the psychological effects of the spaces created by the designer on the users.
Course Description		Design psychology: Cognitive processes in design, Gestalt thought, behavioral movement, perceptual approach. Creative thinking and behavioral models in designing, the effects of various architectural trends on creative thinking and problem solving. Designing alone, designing together environments, experience of designing in digital and virtual environments. User-designer mental interaction. Environmental and spatial psychology: Perception, comprehension and spatial behavior patterns, spatial instinct, crowd and privacy concepts, design and determinism, adaptation to the environment, changing environment and other improvement models. Design thinking and space experience relations, understanding and living in space, meaning of space.
Course Outcomes		1. Understanding architectural psychology 2. To be able to use and evaluate the science of psychology in the formation of spaces 3. Generating information about the meaning of the place 4. Ability to conduct research based on behavior
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Textbook		1. Zeisel, J., “Inquiry By Design : Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience In Architecture, Interiors, Landscape and Planning”. New York: WW Norton & Company. 2006. 2. Mitchell, Thomas C., "Redefining Designing: From Form To Experience". New York: Van Nostrand and Reinhold. 1993. 3. Rowe, Peter, G. "Design Thinking". The Mit Press. 1987. 4. Carr S., Francis, M., Rivlin. L.G., Stone. A.M., "Public Space". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. 5. Lang, J., "Creating Architectural Theory". New York: Van Nostrand and Reinhold. 1987. 6. Walmsley, D.J., Lewis. G.J., "People & Environment". New York : Longman Scientific and Technical. 1993.
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