AH539 COSMO.THO.AND ARCH.IN THE MIDD.EAST
| Course Code: | 8010539 |
| 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: | Prof.Dr. ALİ UZAY PEKER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course provides:
1. Relationship between architecture and fields like religion and cosmology;
2. Formation of cosmological concepts in terms of communicative means;
3. Formation of architectural forms with concepts;
4. How ancient concepts rephrased in medieval philosophy/mysticism influenced architecture.
5. Architecture in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia and the Middle East.
Course Content
This seminar intends to construct a conceptual framework for a deeper understanding of the connotations of the forms employed in early Islamic architecture. Its main objective is to grasp the meaning in architectural forms in resuscitating through readings some of the archaic concepts which were prevalent in the mind of the man of the Middle Ages.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students are expected to:
1. Relate concepts borrowed from an interdisciplinary reading into architecture;
2. Analyze sign and symbols in medieval architecture;
3. Describe medieval architecture in the Middle East in a compendium where earliest formations can be related to the later ones in terms of meanings;
4. Set proofs to reveal medieval design methods in terms of cosmology,
5. Delineate architecture as a signification process;
6. Read advanced texts on philosophy and cosmology.