AH518 CITY, MOVEMENT AND ARCHITECTURE: URBAN PROCESSIONS IN HISTORY
| Course Code: | 8010518 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. AYŞEM BERRİN ÇAKMAKLI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course is a thematic architectural history survey based on a collection of chronologically organized processions and parades, chosen from different geographical areas and cities.The course aims to provide students with
- a broad spectrum of perspectives on urban processions.
- knowledge, understanding, and skills related to research on the historical context of cities with emphasis on physical movement.
- ability to comprehend key architectural works, cultural movements and ideas, theoretical and cultural contexts in relation to the ceremonial paths.
- ability to search for and process historical information; analyze, evaluate, summarize scholarly texts by using maps, diagrams, and cross sections.
- ability to present verbal and visual arguments clearly and concisely with enhanced skills.
Course Content
The course is a thematic architectural history survey based on a collection of chronologically organized processions and parades, chosen from different geographical areas and cities. Some are performed in public streets and squares; others around sacred places like temples and churches. Some are meant to legitimate political power; others to manifest the presence and the dwelling of the sacred on earth. Some derive their power through repetition; others by overwhelming spectators. Each gives a visual list summarizing the particular content. Different locales where the events occurred are usually suggested by a path with fixed nodal points and by the crowd shifting from one to another as the sequence evolves. Thus, movement and sequential acts define the architecture of the procession. For each week, the students will read key essays in the assigned period, prepare written correspondences /graphic representations, and participate in class discussions. As final requirements, the students are required to practice methods of "thick description" and "thick-mapping" one particular procession by using textual, graphic, and/or digital representation tools.
Course Learning Outcomes
Each procession gives a visual list summarizing the particular content representing a particular time in history. Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- analyze textually and depicted evidence on urban events, and identify and map different locales and paths where the events occurred.
- prepare 2D and 3D representations describing the urban movement.
- use digital tools and methods for developing sightlines analysis in historical urban environments.
- formulate and discuss “architecture of the procession” defined by movement and sequential act.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | acquire basic and up-to-date information in the field of architectural history, both in local and global levels (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 2 | have profound knowledge of research methods and literature in the field (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 3 | conduct independent research and study (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 4 | collect and use information from diverse and reliable sources and archival research (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 5 | relate architectural history to other fields and benefit from the knowledge obtained from them (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 6 | transmit architectural history knowledge textually and verbally by various communication and presentation tools in an effective way (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | create architectural history products such as publications, exhibitions, restitution reports, and others in using knowledge acquired in the field and its subjects (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 8 | use the knowledge and experience gained to contribute to the discipline of architectural history and cultural environments (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 9 | observe up-to-date knowledge and research in the field and be open to lifelong learning (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 10 | be open to imparting knowledge in different milieus (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 11 | work within the framework of disciplinary procedures and code of ethics (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution