ARCH492 LANDSCAPE RESEARCH II
| Course Code: | 1200492 |
| 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: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. AYŞEM BERRİN ÇAKMAKLI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
In the past two decades, the subject of landscape went under a fertile interrogation within design culture. This laid the latent capacity of the field to embrace a wide array of issues of the urban milieu bare. In parallel lines, research into its multifarious facets exuberated beyond normative categories. Critical visual studies emerge in response, aiming to extend understanding of movement and experience of time in landscapes and to manifest distinctive ways of thinking.
This course, dwelling on the interactions between people and landscapes through the specific framework of a specific mode of urbanism, aims to bring emergent forms of critical research into discussion. Touching upon issues ranging from urban form and identity to traditions, from emergent cultures to spatial practices in the digital age, it intends to make room for students’ original critical research contribution.
Course Content
The course is composed of a series of lectures and research period. Lecture series are assembled under two headings: On Landscape and Expanded Field of Landscape. First module of the course, On Landscape, elaborates the meaning, language and milieu of landscape on a conceptual basis. This part ends up with students presentation on a selected article from the assigned reading list on landscape. The second module, Expanded Field of Landscape, discusses the inspiring and generative interplay between landscape and art, architecture, urbanism. The knowledge gained from both modules will be reflected through a landscape excursion which is required to be documented through a critical narration.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the successful students are expected to:
- Development of a holistic understanding of Landscape’s myriad of meanings
- Knowledge accumulation on the extensive physical, social and temporal arenas of landscape unbound by site physicality
- Development of an understanding on infrastructural inversion emphasizing the ecological, social, cultural and political agenda over the technical and technological, and the organic over the rational.
- Development of an understanding of territorial time, and thus that of the complexities of ever-shifting dynamics of fixed territories
- Ability to treat the urban in Landscape terms
- Ability to practice topic-based research
- Ability to conduct research through various critical visual research methods.
- Ability to experiment with a novel and alternative form of research; that is videography.
- Development of an awareness on time, process and ‘human dramatic’ aspects of landscape
- Development of a sensitivity about current social, cultural and environmental values
- Development of a consciousness of critical and creative thinking
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