COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
History of Interior Architecture IAR 221 Fall 03+00+00 Elective 3 4
Academic Unit: Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: -
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Objectives: Starting from the prehistoric period, the course examines the history of interior architecture and practice within a social and cultural framework and from a global and comparative perspective.
Course Contents: History and theory of interior architecture starting from prehistoric period to contemporary architecture.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- Students learn about the architectural thinking and practice in the studied period.
  • 2- Students gain an intellectual foundation about the social and cultural background of architectural thinking.
  • 3- Students understand the universal and local aspects in the development of architectural thinking.
  • 4- Students link the abstract architectural concepts with concrete historical and geographical realities.
  • 5- Students recognize the foundational styles, architectural typologies and forms
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: Lectures, visual presentations, classworks, discussions, field trips, research presentations


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation
1 Introduction -
2 Module 1: Beginnings: Prehistoric, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Architecture Reading & Research
3 Module 1: Beginnings: Classical Greco-Roman Architecture Reading & Research
4 Module 1: Task 1 Group Discussions 15%
5 Module 2: Before the Age of Enlightenment: Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic Field Trip 10%
6 Module 2: Before the Age of Enlightenment: Renaissance Reading & Research
7 Module 2: Task 2 Workshop 15%
8 Module 3: The Age of Enlightenment and Neoclassical Architecture: 18th century Reading & Research
9 Module 3: The Age of Enlightenment and Neoclassical Architecture: 19th century Reading & Research
10 Module 3: Task 3 Groups Discussions & Workshop 15%
11 Module 4: The 20th Century Modernism: Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier Reading & Research
12 Module 4: The 20th Century Modernism: Aalto and Kahn Reading & Research
13 Module 4: Task 4 Presentations 20%
14 Research Paper/Project Submission Written Report Submission 25%


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

• Richard Ingersoll, World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
• Sibel Bozdoğan and Esra Akcan, Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (London: Reaktion Books, 2012).


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES

• Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).


ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Attendance / Participation 14 5
Field Work 1 10
Presentation / Jury 1 15
Other Practices (seminar, studio critics, workshop etc.) 3 45
Written presentations (reports) 1 25
Total: 20 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Field Work133
Other Practices (seminar,studio critics,workshop, etc.)3927
Presentation133
Feedback/Class Discussions12112
In-Class Studies where Faculty Members are Active14342
In-Class Studies where Students are Active13113
Total Workload (hour):100


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

# PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10
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