COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
Portfolio Design ARC 417 Fall 03+00+00 Elective 3 5
Academic Unit: Architecture
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: None
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Lecturer(s): TANİA DAPHNE FELDZER ŞAN
Course Objectives: The course objective is to create a portfolio for a master or a job application. The course is conducted in order to make students gain, accumulate and engage their design knowledge and experience in a catalog representing their design vision. The students will produce, read and research about the precedents. Following the simple theoretical briefings on the fundamental issues, the students will acquire critical thinking on the subject and engage it with their design methodology. Through the semester students are expected to fulfill and present the workshop assignments The objective of the course is to help students gain the intellectual and technical skills that are necessary to design an architecture portfolio which will include their works and skills for graduate and/or practice applications.
Course Contents: "Learning by doing" is a crucial approach for the course. Therefore, the course content will be performed through workshops and design assignments which will be worked by using and developing several types of design tools from analog to digital.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- to be able to choose a strategy when assembling images and descriptions of the work and skills experienced during the four years of education.
  • 2- to be able to refine, edit and organize projects, and construct simple and clear descriptions of the work.
  • 3- to be able to apply compositional techniques to graphic representation
  • 4- to be able to format page layouts using a combination of digital and manual presentation techniques
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: Visual presentations and lectures, contemporary essays and discussions, fieldtrip, dest crits., juries, final submission.


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation LO
1 Introduction, what is a Portfolio 1
2 Documentation / Story Board Module 1 / Installation of the require programs Documentation, references research 1-4
3 Documentation / Story Board Module 1 / Layout 1-4
4 Project redraw Redraw a project using various media - Module 1 / photoshop, vray, lumion 1-4
5 Project redraw Redraw a project using various media - Module 1 / photoshop, vray, lumion 1-4
6 Diagramming the idea Module 1 / Illustrator 1-4
7 Diagramming the idea Module 1 / Illustrator 1-4
8 Exam - Highlight a project Module 1 Exam 1-4
9 Curriculum Vitae Module 2 / Indesign, word 1-4
10 Curriculum Vitae Module 2 / Indesign, word, video 1-4
11 Exam - Present yourself Module 2 1-4
12 Portfolio review Module 3 / working session 1-4
13 Portfolio review Module 3 / working session 1-4
14 Final review Module 3 / working session 1-4


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

1. to be able to choose a strategy when assembling images and descriptions of the work and skills experienced during the four years of education.
2. to be able to refine, edit and organize projects, and construct simple and clear descriptions of the work.
3. to be able to apply compositional techniques to graphic representation
4. to be able to format page layouts using a combination of digital and manual presentation techniques.


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES

Katerina Ruedi Ray, L. L., Igor Marjanovic (2003). The Portfolio: An Architectural Student's Handbook. Oxford, Architectural Press.Linton, H. and S. Rost (2003). Portfolio design. New York, W.W.
Instagram : Portfoliomentor, thearchitectureofdiagram


ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Attendance / Participation 14 -
Practice / Exercise 14 -
Project 3 100
Total: 31 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Course Hours14342
Practice / Exercise13339
Project3618
Other Practices (seminar,studio critics,workshop, etc.)236
Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.)4520
Total Workload (hour):125


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)

# PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12
LO1                        
LO2                        
LO3                        
LO4