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Course Name	Turkish	Mimarlıkta Tipomorfo. Çözüm.
	English	Typomorphological Analysis in Architecture.
Course Code	MTS 538	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Tan Kamil Gürer
Course Objectives		1. Theoretical background formation for understanding Urban Morphology, under the topics of urban morphology, formal elements, and the city. 2. Approaches to Architectural Typology; type and typology, methodology of typology, typology of buildings, and typology of unstructured spaces. 3. Discussion on Typomorphology in Architecture; purpose of typomorphology and understanding of urban space, typomorphological method, styles: Italian, English and French approaches, morphogenetic concept in architecture, and morphogenetic change.
Course Description		To analyze the urban fabric in order to better understand the architectural qualities of the environment; to examine the characteristics of urban and architectural patterns in two ways, typological and morphological; to understand the formation of the architectural environment with a holistic approach based on the typo-morphological method.
Course Outcomes		Students who complete the course will; 1. Obtain detailed information about the importance of morphology and typology in architecture, 2. Acquires knowledge about typomorphological terms, concepts and approaches in architecture, 3. Acquires knowledge about the importance of history in typomorphological approach in architecture, 4. Gains the ability to understand the sociological foundations of the morphological development of cities, 5. Gains the ability to read the architectural and urban character of the city as a whole.
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Other References		1. Oliveira, V. (ed.). (2018) Teaching Urban Morphology, Springer, Switzerland. 2. Caniggia, G. and Maffei, G.L. (2001) Architectural composition and building typology: interpreting basic building, Alinea Editrice, Firenze; translated by S.J. Frazer, first published in Italian in 1979 3. Moudon, A.V. (1994) `Getting to know the built landscape: typomorphology', in Franck, K. and Scheekloth, L. (eds) Ordering space: types in architecture and design Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 4. Panerai, P., Depaules, J.-C. (1999) Analyse Urbaines, Editions Parenthèses, Marseilles, France. 5. Kropf, K. (2017) The Handbook of Urban Morphology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., UK.

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