ARCH474 ARCHITECT`S MARKET STRUCTURE II
| Course Code: | 1200474 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer MEHMET SEYFİ GÖL |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course provides:
- Adaptation to market conditions
- Adaptation to terms and wording used in professional life
- Understanding pre-design and post-design parameters
- Acquiring the reasoning for professional discipline
- Develop self-confidence and leadership understanding
Course Content
This course aims to prepare the senior students to the market conditions that they will experience after graduation: Defines the role of the architect through economic, social and cultural parameters of the market structure; investigates the rules and regulations affecting the architects services in both the private and the government sectors.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the successful students will be able to gather knowledge on:
- project and design/construction management
- design/construction process and quality control
- human resources and time managements, cost control techniques
- preparation of bill of quantities, work schedules, costs, time tables, and cash flow charts
- preparation of feasibility report, tender documents and design/construction agreements
- investment process, related actors, new materials and methodologies
- architect’s role in investment
- the relations with client, investor, engineer, decorator, landscape architect etc.
- the financial, legal and administrative parameters influencing the architect
- the relationship between economic developments, finance, social life and politics with architecture
- the role of architect as a leader
- contemporary world and local architects, contractors and designers and their market relations
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to establish connections between the discipline of architecture and its related areas of competence, with the cultural and social aspects of architectural production. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Gaining, evaluating and applying the technical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the knowledge and values of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Making analysis and synthesis of data by employing theories, methods and currents of thought that aid in the identification and solution of architectural design problems. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Developing creative and original ideas into the stages of theoretical design, projects, application and evaluation of architectural services and realizing them independently as well as in a team. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being able to effectively use the traditional and digital communication technologies and visual expression tools. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Providing leadership to achieve synthesis through a productive coordination of the scientists and professionals of different disciplines taking part in the formation of the built environment. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being open to lifelong education by internalizing world experiences related to architectural thought and applications and following new developments. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Understanding the requirements of environmental, cultural and economic sustainability in both global and local scales and considering them in all professional activities. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Defending the society's rights to shelter, within nature and city applying universal principles and resisting applications that are against professional ethics and laws while creating unique solutions and putting them into practice. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution