AH543 ANATOLIAN SELJUK ARCHITECTURE(11-14TH CENTURIES)
| Course Code: | 8010543 |
| 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: | Masters |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ALİ UZAY PEKER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course provides:
Architecture, towns and landscape in medieval Anatolia; Sources and inventions of Seljuk architecture; Written Sources on Seljuk architecture; Discourses in architectural historiography on Seljuk architecture; Seljuk architecture in relation to world medieval architecture; Design principles in medieval age; Background for graduate research on medieval Anatolia.
Course Content
This course investigates Seljuk architecture in Anatolia (11-14th c.) in terms of its stylistic and semantic aspects. It surveys building types, regional features, landscape and symbolic meanings. This course will be constructive in promoting graduate research on history architecture in Anatolia and in creating an overall view on architecture culture in medieval Anatolia. Students will be acquainted with building types and their antecedents, landscape and sites, regional features and symbolic meanings of Seljuk architecture.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students are expected to:
Describe a Seljuk building through the vocabulary gained in the class; Distinguish Seljuk architecture within the body of “Islamic” architecture; Relate Seljuk architecture to other Anatolian and neighboring traditions; Write an essay on Seljuk architecture in terms of its different dimensions; Portray different building types, functions and spaces of Seljuk architecture; Outline the relationship between the world view and architecture under the Seljuks.