Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mimarlık ve Tasarımda Kültürel Bağlam
	English	Archit.&Design in Cult.Context
Course Code	IMT 508E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Özge Cordan Özge Cordan
Course Objectives		To understand and experience architecture in cultural context emphasizing the role of cultural identity in a global world, 2. To discuss the design phenomena in the context of local, global and cultural interaction. 3. To elicit theoretical and practical issues and their reciprocal relations, 4. To experience environments of cultural significance and integrate theory with practice.
Course Description		A holistic approach to understanding the effects of cultural values and social structures / lifestyles on architecture; as a cultural being its interaction areas, historical thresholds and turning points that influence its design; problematizing the concept of “meaning” in the age of objectivized architecture; authenticity as dialectics of local and global values and discussions on re-design of traditional Turkish architecture; problem of “aura” and “original”; in-between actual and virtual; discussions on consuming society, production-consumption relations of space, on various spatial scales ranging from personal to communal; power of image in production of architecture; material / visual culture that directs the product, political and social events, scientific developments, philosophy, daily life.
Course Outcomes		I. The ability and knowledge to discuss the design phenomena in the context of local and global scales and cultural interaction, II. The competency to gain local and global values and awareness of architecture and design problems, III. The ability to think architecture, art and other cultural products in parallel with local and global cultural environment, IV. The competency to evaluate reciprocally relationships of different cultural products with a critical view point. V. The ability and knowledge to integrate theory and practice using different tools within interactive media.
Pre-requisite(s)		N/A
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook
Other References		Claire Colebrook, 2002 Gilles Deleuze, Routledge Calvio, Italo 1974 Invisible Cities Henry Lefebvre, 2007, The Production of Space, Blackwell Publishing.

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