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Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	To enable the student of architecture to understand the urban plan principles and decisions coming from the upper scale through the formation of the built environment and to comprehend the criteria that guide his/her original design.
Course Content	Basic concepts in the field of Urban Planning; the concept of urban; the process from the first human settlements to modern cities; current urbanization problems; analytical studies that form the basis for the urban plans.

Learning Outcomes

Discuss formal composition systems and the methods used in architecture.
Comment on the basic principles and methods of architecture and planning.
Summarize the parallel and divergent canons of architecture and urban design, city, art, technology and human sciences of the Western world.
Identify with sufficient scientific background the effect of the non-Western philosophy on the architectural canons in Western architecture.
Retain the basic principles of ecology and architects' responsibilities with respect to environment and human interaction in architecture.
Predict the needs to design sites and buildings to accommodate individuals with varying physical abilities.
Outline an architectural project informed by a comprehensive program from schematic design.
Provide theoretical bases of distinct approaches and design methods in contemporary architecture.
Interpret the shifts occuring in the natural-artificial, legal–political and economic factors that shape the practice of architecture.
Recognize art activities shaping the manner, bacground and senses of an architectural design.
Distinguish the local traditions, materials and regional heritage in architecture including vernacular traditions.
Possess awareness of economic and aesthetic parameters and clients' demands in a design project.
Discuss the diversity of needs, behavioral norms, and social and spatial patterns characterizing different cultures in architecture.
Integrate the principles of structural behavior of the load carrying structural systems in the architectural design.
Recognize building codes, standards and conventions in the architectural design and architects' legal responsibilities.
Incorporate the basic principles of plumbing, electrical wiring, heating and air-conditioning and alike into the design.
Classify the basic principles of acoustics and lighting systems, and energy use.
Define the principles, conventions, standards, applications, and restrictions pertaining to the manufacture and the use of increasing number and types of construction materials.
Identify the ethical issues involved in the formation of professional judgments in architecture design and practice.
Formulate the proper presentation of the subject matter of an architectural project.
Analyze the examples of contemporary international architectural design with a critical point of view.
Employ basic methods of data collection and analysis to address all the aspects of design process in city planning, urban planning and landscape architecture.
Design a comprehensive architectural project, including a critical review of appropriate precedents, an analysis of site conditions and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
Employ appropriate representational media, including computer technology, to convey essential formal elements at each stage of the programming and design process.
Integrate structural, environmental and life-safety systems, building envelope systems, and building service systems into building design.
Describe technically precise design and structural behavior for the purposes of review and construction.
Utilize technically precise inventory and documentation of a historic place within the rules established by the relevant authority.
Assemble a comprehensive software program for an architecture project including an assessment of client and user needs, an inventory of space and equipment requirements, an analysis of site conditions and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
Design sites and buildings to accommodate individuals with varying physical abilities.
Respond to natural and built site characteristics and their effects in the development of a program and the design of a project.
Design different methods of project delivery, the corresponding forms of service contracts and the types of documentation required to render competent and responsible professional service within the legislation of a building.
Judge the individual role of an architect in the professional field and his/her responsibility.
Work successfully in research and design stages of an architectural project within a team.
Consent lifelong learning principles in professional life as well as follow up development and improvement in the field of architecture.
Discuss social and professional issues.
Administer the limited energy resources and take responsibility to protect the environment.
Integrate the basic principles and responsibilities of organization and legislation as they apply to the practice of architecture.
Configure, as an integral part of the design, an appropriate combination of building materials, components, and assemblies to satisfy the requirements of building programs.

Weekly Course Subjects

1	Introduction of the course, information about the content. Discussion on Istanbul: Comparison with the cities of Türkiye and the world.
2	Basic concepts: City, Urbanization, Urban Plan, Planning. Plan types and hierarchy.
3	Factors affecting the establishment of cities and settlement form. Transition to settled life. Basic urbanization theories. Practice 1: Analytical studies in the built environment - Determination of the study area.
4	Ancient human settlements: Anatolia, Mesopotamia. Practice 1: Analytical studies in the built environment - Building use, construction type, building height, building maintenance.
5	Ancient human settlements: Egypt, Indus, China. Practice 1: Analytical studies in the built environment - Urban fabric, TAKS, KAKS, population density.
6	INTERMEDIATE DELIVERY-1 : Analytical studies in the built environment. Open presentation and discussion.
7	Cities in ancient ages: Greek, Roman
8	Midterm exam
9	Social structure and urban morphologies in the Middle Ages.
10	Renaissance and Baroque settlements and seeking for the Ideal City.
11	Industrial Revolution and its effects on cities. Practice 2: Analytical studies in natural environment - Contour analysis, Hydrological analysis.
12	Seeking for solutions after the industrial revolution: Urban Development Models and Applications in the 19th Century Practice 2: Analytical studies in the natural environment - Slope analysis
13	Seeking for solutions after the industrial revolution: Urban Development Models and Applications in the 20th Century Practice 2: Analytical studies in the natural environment - Aspect analysis.
14	INTERMEDIATE DELIVERY-2 : Analytical studies in natural environment. Open presentation and discussion.

Resources

1- Ragon, Michel. Histoire de L’Architecture et de L’Ubanisme Modernes/Modern Mimarlık ve Şehircilik Tarihi, Çev: Murat Aykaç Erginöz,
Kabalcı Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1998
2- Mumford, Lewis. The City in History-Its origins, its transformations, and its prospects/Tarih Boyunca Kent - Kökenleri, Geçirdiği
Dönüşümler ve Geleceği, Ayrıntı, İstanbul, 2007.
3- Reader, John. Cities/Şehirler, YKY, İstanbul, 2007.
4- Kolektif. Le Corbusier ve Kent, Boyut, İstanbul, 2007.
5- Ersoy, Melih. Kentsel Planlama: Ansiklopedik Sözlük, Ninova, İstanbul, 2012.

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