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Lesson Information

Course Credit
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
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. ŞENİZ ATİK
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course With the important developments in the history of architecture ranging from the refuge to the monumental structure and the classical order in the antique architecture; Establishment of the first orderly cities in history and to ensure that the architects of today's architects get to know the city structures and public structures in a regular city. he urban layout of these structures.
Course Content It includes important developments in the history of architecture ranging from refuge to monumental structure and classical orders (such as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Aiol order) and Monumental structures (Temple orders: Templum in antis, distil in antis, dipteros, peripteros etc.). Theater, Agora, Stoa, Bouleuterion, Eklesiasterion, Prytaneion, Gymnasium, Stadion covers the definition of structures found in an ancient city. The cave settlement includes the first shelters, village settlements and the establishment of regular cities, public and civil architectural structures (houses) and urban settlements in a regular city. The first regular cities to which the Hippodamos Plan was implemented included Priene and Miletus.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Architecture and Archaeology (INTRODUCTION) Preliminary briefing; recommendation to read the book "Ten Books on Architecture" by the ancient architect Vitruvius.
2The first human settlements; life in caves and rock hollows in the Paleolithic Age (e.g. Karain caves near Antalya and Yarımburgaz caves in Istanbul), shelters.
3The village life that started with the Mesolithic age, the process that led to a new cultural era called Neolithic with the beginning of agriculture (example: examples from Çatalhöyük etc. settlements)
4In the Mesolithic Age, early humans began to settle rather than nomadize (examples of the first villages and shelters; Çayönü near Diyarbakır, etc.).
5The first cities emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and the lowland areas of eastern China between 6000 and 5000 BC. The two earliest examples are Jericho in Palestine and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia. Nearby examples : The findings at Yenikapı in Istanbul (6000 BC) will also be briefly introduced with visuals as the first evidence for the existence of a settlement there.
6The first regular plans in settlements; "Grid plan" applications were realized in the 2nd millennium BC (e.g. Kahun, Tell-El-Amarna in Egypt; Enkomi in Cyprus; Megiddo in Palestine; Zernaki Tepe in Van Erciş, Bayraklı in İzmir etc.).
7Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Period Architecture with the settlements of the 1st millennium BC (Main orders in architecture: Doric, Ionian, Corinthian orders and temple orders)
8The first organized cities in Antiquity. The Hippodamos Plan and the cities where it was implemented; . Piraeus, Priene and Miletus.
9MIDTERM
10The city of Priene and an overview of architectural structures in a city in ancient times.
11Important public buildings in a city in ancient times: Theater, Agora, Stoa, Bouleuterion, Ekklesiasterion, Prytaneion
12Gymnasium, Stadion and Temples and the place and importance of these structures in the city.
13Miletos, one of the cities where the Hippodamos Plan was implemented.
14Miletos, one of the cities where the Hippodamos Plan was implemented.

Resources

1- E. Akurgal, Anadolu Uygarlıkları (1989).

2- E. Akurgal, Anadolu Kültür Tarihi (1998).
3- De Architectura, Vitruvius