AH547 THEORIES OF HISTORY II: VISUALITY, SPATIALITY AND MATERIALITY
| Course Code: | 8010547 |
| 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 Semesters. |
Course Objectives
TThe main objective of the course is to familiarize students with the literature on vision, visuality and architectural history. Students are expected to develop analytical skills to interpret architecture from a visuality perspective.
Course Content
The modern era has come to be seen as dominated by the sense of sight. Along those lines, in the last decades from literary criticism and film studies to feminism and visual studies, a vast literature has developed that probes vision and visuality in relation to arts, culture and social life. Scholars from different fields, including art history, elucidated the vision-based nature of different practices and disciplines. In this course, we explore architecture vis-à-vis visuality. After acquainting ourselves with different positions on visuality, we probe architecture with conceptual tools coming from the field of visuality. We focus on instances of "ocular-centric" architectures from different periods, be it an attitude on the part of the architect, the nature of specific architectures, or the engagement of any visual medium including photography and film in the creation and dissemination of architecture.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students are expected to acquire:
*Familiarity with seminal and current scholarship on vision, visuality and architectural history.
*A layered understanding of the entanglement of architecture with vision and image.
* Knowledge and skills to critically interpret architecture from a visuality perspective.
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