| Academic Unit: |
Department of Architecture |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Objectives: |
This course aims to acquaint the students with the basic concepts and issues of urban environments as they relate to architecture. Specifically, the objectives are: • to provide a basic understanding of the ways in which urban environments are formed, • to offer an introduction to architecture’s relation with its context, particularly the urban context, • to raise an awareness of the various aspects and issues that pertain to cities, • to investigate the mutual relation between architecture and urban space at various scales, • to observe and examine the social aspects of urban public spaces, • to discuss how we experience architecture and the built environment as a whole. |
| Course Contents: |
This course aims both to familiarize the students with cities as contexts for architecture, and also to discuss the role of architecture in defining urban spaces. After a brief introduction to the origins of cities, the course focuses on urban forms and types of urban spaces, their relation with architecture, as well as the ways we experience urban space. The content of the course is substantiated with case studies to give the students the chance to observe, experience and study various urban environments. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- Will have a basic understanding about the formation of urban environments.
- 2- Will be introduced to the relation between architecture and the urban context at various scales.
- 3- Will have an awareness of the various aspects and issues that pertain to cities.
- 4- Will be able to observe and analyse social aspects of urban public spaces and discuss how people experience them.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
Lectures supported by slides; readings; video screenings; discussions; invited lectures; case studies; assignments and presentations by students. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
LO |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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1,2,3 |
| 2 |
M1_Urban Environments |
Readings |
1,2,3 |
| 3 |
M1_Urban Environments |
Readings; documentary screenings |
1,2,3 |
| 4 |
M1_Urban Environments |
Readings |
1,2,3 |
| 5 |
M1_Urban Environments |
Student presentations and submissions |
1,2,3 |
| 6 |
M2_Architecture and Urban Context |
Readings |
1,2,3 |
| 7 |
M2_Architecture and Urban Context |
Readings; documentary screenings |
1,2,3 |
| 8 |
M2_Architecture and Urban Context |
Readings |
1,2,3 |
| 9 |
M2_Architecture and Urban Context |
Student presentations and submissions |
1,2,3 |
| 10 |
M3_Urban Commons |
Readings |
1,2,3,4 |
| 11 |
M3_Urban Commons |
Readings; documentary screenings |
1,2,3,4 |
| 12 |
M3_Urban Commons |
Readings; documentary screenings |
1,2,3,4 |
| 13 |
M3_Urban Commons |
Readings |
1,2,3,4 |
| 14 |
M3_Urban Commons |
Student presentations and submissions |
1,2,3,4 |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
| Simon Eisner, Arthur Gallion and Stanley Eisner, The Urban Pattern. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993; Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992; Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, Cambridge: The Technology Press and Harvard University Press, 1960; Roger Trancik, Finding Lost Space, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1986; Rob Krier, Urban Space. New York: Rizzoli, 1988; Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape. London: Butterworth Architecture, 1971; William Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Space. Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1980; Spiro Kostof, The City Assembled. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992; Aldo Rossi, Architecture of the City. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1988 (1984). Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities (trans. William Weaver) Orlando, Fl: Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Robert Fishman, “Introduction,” Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. London: The MIT Press, 1991. |
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
