| Code |
Course Name |
Language |
Type |
| MIM 425E |
Architecture Today |
English |
Elective |
| Local Credits |
ECTS |
Theoretical |
Tutorial |
Laboratory |
| 3 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction |
| Prerequisites |
None |
| Class Restriction |
None |
| Course Description |
| The aim of the course is to understand and analyze by research of the current architecture issues through design magazines,
recent architectural design competitions, conventional and alternative institutions, prominent buildings and architects of the last
decade.
Studying the last decade positions the course at the edge of a more debated boundary of seemingly separate fields of study:
history of architecture and critique of architecture in relation with professional practice and architectural design theory. In this
context, investigating architects / professionals / offices / individuals; schools / institutions / organizations; publications;
competitions; current issues of the world with influences and impacts on architecture through politics, economy, materials,
technology, law-legal issues, etc. and various architectural representation types / medias is the goal.
The following issues are also positions the course: Overview of the Intellectual Environment in Architecture; The Architect and
his/her Professional Environment; Modernism and Post-Modernism in Social Theory; Modernism and Post-Modernism in
Architectural Theory; Contemporary Paradigms and Approaches and Their Effects on Architectural Discipline: Sustainability,
Ecology, Social Architecture, Architecture and Media, New Technologies and Architecture, Representation and Identity in
Architecture; Architecture of Different Geographies: The Architecture of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Far East,
Middle East, and Oceania; Architectural Competitions and their effects on various disciplines; The State of the Architectural
Domain in Turkey. |
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