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This course sets up a frame for studying architectural history by reviewing its past and present as a disypline.

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Independent work leading to the selection and clarification of thesis topic. Presentation of the research in departmental seminars, with a written draft of the thesis proposal at the end of the semester.

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This course is offered as two consecutive programs: the first based on class discussions of classical texts on philosophy of art and aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. The second semester focuses on modern concepts of art and aesthetics reviewed through readings of 20th century philosophers and critics. It aims to acquaint the participants with changing and multi-dimensional aspects of art theory and practice. The class is conducted through discussions and active student participation is expected.

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This course is offered as two consecutive programs: the first based on class discussions of classical texts on philosophy of art and aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. The second semester focuses on modern concepts of art and aesthetics reviewed through readings of 20th century philosophers and critics. It aims to acquaint the participants with changing and multi-dimensional aspects of art theory and practice. The class is conducted through discussions and active student participation is expected.

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The architectural history digital humanities lab aims to introduce students the current topics and critical issues that underlie digital humanities scholarship-in particular-, as they relate to architectural history. The course will be organized around three modules, each extending over a period of roughly three weeks. The first set will explore the tools and techniques related to geospatial studies, namely mapping and spatial visualizations; the second will concern techniques for network visualizations and textual analysis ; and the third will address the creation of digital exhibitions, installations and archives.

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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.

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This seminar course is a critical survey of domestic architecture and daily life in ancient Greek and Roman periods in an interdisciplinary framework through thematic readings. Weekly readings and discussions focus on themes and concepts like house, home, space, privacy, luxury, leisure, gender, art and consumption to highlight how private space was designed, decorated, populated and used in antiquity.

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This is a one-semester survey course designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to understand and interpret some of the major aspects of Ottoman cultural production and its history throughout the six centuries of Ottoman Empire. Emphasis is placed upon certain objects -- including buildings, illustrated books, paintings, photographs, calligraphy, postcards, and domestic furnishing-- chosen to explore the dynamics of cross-cultural contacts, the mobility of artworks, networks of artists and patrons, and multiple sites of production, circulation, and reception. The secondary readings, organised in a loosely chronological narrative, are selected to introduce students to the wide range of approaches, methodologies, and sources in the study of Ottoman cultural history, exploring the complex and multi-layered interactions between Ottoman cultural production and its regional and historical contexts in a comparative network.

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Critical survey on Ottoman architecture in the nineteenth century. It covers the multiple dimensions of the built environment within a cross-cultural framework of contemporary encounters between the "West" and the "East" during "the longest century of the empire" that extended from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century.

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Selected themes concerning architectural developments in Greek architecture during the archaic, classical and Hellenistic periods with emphasis on Greece and Asia Minor.

Bu ders antik Yunan mimarisi üzerinde bilgi temeli oluştururken aynı zamanda Yunan mimarisinin farklı irdelenme biçimlerinin eleştirel boyutu üzerine bilinçlenme kazandırmayı hedeflemektedir.

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A critical survey of the major developments in the history of Roman architecture in Rome and the provinces. Discussion of adaptation, evolution, resistance, acculturation and memory.

Bu ders antik Roma mimarlığı konusunda bilgi temeli oluştururken aynı zamanda Roma mimarlığı tarihinin yazımında farklı irdeleme biçimlerine yönelik farkındalığı arttırarak eleştirel düzeyde okuma ve fikir üretme becerisi kazandırmayı hedeflemektedir.

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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.

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Focusing on the time period since the late nineteenth century, this course aims to familiarize students with the dialougues, interchanges as well as dissents between the disciplines of art, architecture, and cinema. With an interdisciplinary emphasis, we will explore various intersections between art, architecture, and cinema by studying several topics around which the conversations among the theories and practices of these disciplines especially intensified. We will consider how these key terms, themes, concepts, and preoccupations that gave way to spirited dialogues among disciplines-including modernities and modernisms, attractions, slapstick, design pedagogy,window, montage, apparatus theory, site-specificity, archiveology and the city, modernitys ruins, institutional critique, and tensions between the white cube and the black box-have been inflected by historical, social and cultural distinctions as well as expansions.

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This course contains an in depth survey of political ,social ,economic cultural aspects and architecture of the eighteenth century , which provides a kaleidoscopic vision of the Ottoman way of life and material culture in this initial era of Occidentalism.The course focuses on how the Ottomans incorporated Western European cultural concepts and architectural features into local traditions.The Occidentalizing tendencies, a distinguishing characteristic of the century in the Ottoman world, are studied in reference to European Orientalism and Exoticism .The course also discusses the use of the term Baroque for the century and its implications.

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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.

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Archival study on primary sources and bibliographical study on secondary sources as part of the process of writing architectural history. The main theme changes each semester, but Ankara remains as the general study area to read and discuss the theoretical frameworks of architectural modernism, and of city formation, and to search for and analyze the documents in various archives and libraries, in order to write a critical and interpretive account of the architectural history of the city.

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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.

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Creativity, memory, and the aesthetic have long been discussed by different disciplines from sundry perspectives. in this seminar, we will engage in the daunting task of probing these elusive terms which intermittently pervade architectural discourse. We will try to come to grips with them by locating aesthetic and architectural production at the interstice between the social and the psychic—the two realms between which, in Kaja Silverman s words, `[there is a complex] interaction involving a series of `relays`.` What does `to create` amount to? What are the ways in which `the aesthetic` works? Where to draw the lines between memory, myth and nostalgia? These are some of the questions we will tackle vis-â-vis different architectural and visual products.

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This is an independent study course designed to provide the students with an opportunity to conduct in-depth study on a subject of his or her choice. Working closely with a faculty member who has experience and knowledge relevant to the selected topic, students will work on issues of formulating research questions, preparing literature surveys, collecting, and analysing data and finally, reporting the results within the framework of scholarly work (paper, presentation, exhibition, etc.).

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Literacy in Ottoman Turkish; 19th-20th century printed texts; acquaintance with late Ottoman and early Republican era printed primary sources and texts on architectural history.

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This course provides advanced reading knowledge of Ottoman Turkish in printed materials as well as the contemporary usage of the language for Architectural Historians who intend to study late Ottoman and Early Republican periods. It also aims to introduce different hand writing styles used in Ottoman paleography, thereby allowing access to archival documents produced in the earlier periods of the Ottoman Empire. As such, it intends to facilitate archival research and enable the students to use the contents of printed and hand written primary sources necessary to conduct research in the field.

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This seminar is designed for PhD students specializing in architectural history. It aims at providing them with the knowledge of the general patterns in architectural historiography. In addition to more conventional approaches, recent theoretical debates and current issues in architectural historiography are surveyed to equip students with the requisite knowledge and research tools in an advanced level that help them develop their own research and interpretation strategies.

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Complimentary to “AH 601: Critical Review in Architectural History,” and preparatory for the Ph.D. qualification exam, this course is directed towards overviewing architectural history and historiography by focusing on the topic of “survey” as a critical enterprise. It aims to equip students with the tools of studying the topic comprehensively to develop their own research and interpretation strategies.

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This course is complementary to AH601 Critical Review in Architectural History and preparatory for the Ph.D. qualification exam. It is directed towards overviewing architectural history and historiography by focusing on the topic of survey as a critical enterprise. It aims to equip students with the tools of studying the topic comprehensively to develop their own research and interpretation techniques.

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The first part of this PhD seminar is designed as an interdisciplinary survey of both seminal and current scholarship on theories of gender and sexuality in a loosely chronological order. The second and third parts focus on related approaches and perspectives within studies of space, architecture, and architectural history. The aim is to provide students the requisite knowledge and skills to employ ´´gender´´ and ´´sexuality´´ critically as analytical categories for the study and writing of architectural history. A layered history of multiple trajectories of feminist practices alongside complex historical cases of gendered and sexualized spaces are given. The emphasis is on the modern era starting from the I 9th century covering both revisionist accounts of canonical examples and those exploring new territory. While a sufficiently nuanced understanding of multiple modalities of such categories and their specific historical manifestations is aimed at the limits and challenges to that position arc also questioned.

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Treats different forms of verbal, visual and spatial evidence concerning ruins especially in Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Near East. Critically assesses the role of changing perception in bridging the past and the present through selected monuments and archeological sites.

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The course focuses on the emergence and establishment of travel, collecting and display as spatial practices from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. These practices were pivotal for the formation of spaces that frame and exhibit the past, effective in the emergence of the modern museum.
Studying the contextual and conceptual dimensions of the topic throughout the semester, students will prepare term projects on suggested cases that will discuss the multiple problematics of displaying the past, from museums to larger sites of travel and display to spaces of geographically and historically comparative and interconnected practices.

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