Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mimarlık Tarihinde Özel Konular
	English	Special Topics in Archit.Hist.
Course Code	MIT 523E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	-	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ahmet Erdem Tozoğlu
Course Objectives		By the end of the course the students will - To develop an advanced understanding on nineteenth century architecture and urbanism in European context. - To learn how to conduct research and write an essay at graduate level - To conceptualize historical continuity and change and development in cross-cultural perspective. - To acquire advanced reading and writing skills in architecture - To comprehend ‘the building’ as an architectural artifact formed by social, economical and cultural aspects. - Understand characteristics of non-European trajectories of modernity.
Course Description		This is a graduate level course on the history of modernization in the contexts of 19th century in European and non-European experiences and their historiography. This course aims to create critical point of view towards modernization of the Europe, the Ottoman Empire and their contemporaries by raising questions about the developments in the fields of architecture and urbanism. Each week, the students will have in-deep readings on various aspects of modernism, and they will be nurtured by in-class discussions.
Course Outcomes		LO1: To develop an advanced understanding on nineteenth century modernity in relation to architecture and urbanism. LO2: To do an extensive research and write an academic article on one of the topics introduced. LO3: To analyze the aspects of the nineteenth century architecture, such as historicity, revivalism, eclecticism. LO4: Separately identify and interpret universal and local qualities in the development of architectural thought. LO5: Start to develop an intellectual opinion and a personal reflection on the history and culture of the architectural discourse.
Pre-requisite(s)		-
Required Facilities		For this course I will be delivering the course content face-to-face in the classroom. For research and homework assignments of the course, you should have : 1. A stable internet connection for accessing online resources. 2. A stable computer or tablet 3. Access to ITU Ninova course management system
Other
Textbook		No textbook
Other References		Please see the course syllabus

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