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ARCH 542 Course Syllabus Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Spring Semester 2017-18 Elif Kendir B. ARCH 542 IN SITU: RETHINKING SITE IN ARCHITECTURE Manhattan, 1609 and 2009. Illustration from Mannahatta; photograph by Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis. Course Description Context discussions occupy ...

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ARCH 542 Course Syllabus Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Elif Kendir B.

Spring Semester 2017-18

ARCH 542 IN SITU: RETHINKING SITE IN ARCHITECTURE

Manhattan, 1609 and 2009. Illustration from Mannahatta; photograph by Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis.

Course Description Context discussions occupy a diverse and colorful range of approaches in architectural theory – from Norberg-Schulz’s concept of genius loci to Koolhaas’ infamous dictum “Fuck context,” these various approaches problematize architecture’s relationship to its site. This graduate seminar will investigate theoretical and practical approaches regarding the notion of site in architecture. Each semester a series of case studies will be discussed in terms of the dynamic relationship between buildings and their sites through various scales and typologies. The course will be in the form of weekly lectures and discussion sessions. The students will be required to follow the course readings and participate in weekly group discussions as well as moderating at least one of these discussions. For the final evaluation of this course students should submit either: (1) a 2000-2500 word essay on a topic to be agreed with the instructor, or (2) a site analysis portfolio with a short essay of 800 words to be agreed upon with the instructor. Credits 5 credits Meetings Mondays 10 am - 1 pm, S-ÇSM, 503

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ARCH 542 Course Syllabus Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Elif Kendir B.

Spring Semester 2017-18

Course Schedule WEEK 1 19 February Course Introduction: The concept of “in-situ” in architecture and other disciplines Readings: Norberg-Schulz, Christian. ͞Natural Place,͟ in Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, 23-47. London: Rizzoli, 1979. *Burns, Carol J. “On Site: Architectural Preoccupations,” in Drawing, Building, Text, ed. A. Kahn, 147-165. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991. WEEK 2 26 February Context Discussions: Different facets of site in architecture Guest Lecturer: Uğur Tanyeli “Mimarlıkta Bağlam: Tartışmalı bir Başlık” Readings: Koolhaas, Rem. "Bigness and the Problem of the Large," in S, M, L, XL, 494-516. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. *Gregotti, Vittorio. “Architecture, Environment, Nature,” in Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, edited by Joan Ockman. 399-401. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. WEEK 3 05 March NO CLASS WEEK 4 12 March Scales and Scapes Reading: Ingold, Tim. ͞The Temporality of the Landscape,͟ in The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, 189-208. London: Routledge, 2000. WEEK 5 19 March Metrics: The Site as measured, planned and designed context Reading: Lynch, Kevin and Gary Hack. ͞The Site͟ 29-66; and ͞The Sensed Landscape and its Materials͟ 153-192, in Site Planning, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000. WEEK 6 26 March Geographical region as context: material and immaterial flows. Guest Lecturer: Burcu Kütükçüoğlu “Mare Nostrum: Akdeniz Mekanının Alternatif İmgeleri”

Reading: Frampton, Kenneth. “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance”, in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster. New York: New Press, 1998. Braudel, Fernand. “Deniz,” 31-53, in Akdeniz: Mekan ve Tarih. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1990. Case Study: Carlo Scarpa and the Veneto district WEEK 7 02 April Vernacular as context. Reading: Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964.

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ARCH 542 Course Syllabus Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Elif Kendir B.

Spring Semester 2017-18

WEEK 8 09 April From Chora to urban sites. Guest Lecturer: Emrah Altınok “Kent İllüzyonu” Case Study: New York: The Mannahatta Project Reading: De Landa, Manuel. “Lavas and Magmas” in A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, 11-99. New York: Zone Books, 2000. *Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: Monacelli Press, 1978. WEEK 9 16 April Site: The non-human aspects Reading: Gibson, James J. “The Animal and the Environment,” and “The Theory of Affordances” in The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986. *O’Donnell, Caroline. “Niche Tactics,” in Niche Tactics:Generative Relationships between Architecture and the Site, 13-29. New York: Routledge, 2015. WEEK 10 23 April Site: The cognitive aspects Reading: Preston, Christopher J. Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology and Place. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2003. *Leatherbarrow, David. The Roots of Architectural Invention: Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture (RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. WEEK 11 30 April Site Strategies Guest Lecturer: Aslıhan Demirtaş “Graft / Aşı” Reading: Turpin, Etienne (ed). Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy. Michigan: Open Humanities Press, 2013. Le Corbusier. Journey to the East, edited by Ivan Zaknic. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007. Student Presentations: Essays + Site Portfolio WEEK 12 05-07 May Site Visit: The Harran Plain Reading: Baudoin, Genevieve S. “Defining Site” 9-34; and “Systematizing Site” 117-140 in Interpreting Site: Studies in Perception, Representation and Design. New York: Routledge, 2016. WEEK 13 14 May Student Presentations: Essays + Site Portfolio WEEK 14 21 May Design of the Final Exhibition / Final Discussion FINAL 11 June Portfolio or Essay Submission

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ARCH 542 Course Syllabus Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Elif Kendir B.

Spring Semester 2017-18

Research Routes Alternative 1. Essay [individual work] In this alternative, the course participants will be given the option to propose an essay topic relevant to the subject matter of the course, and write up a 2000 to 2500-word essay on their proposed topic. This is an individual assignment, and the final essay will be expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of the issues discussed within the semester as well as supplementing this understanding with additional reading material to be attached at the end of the essays in the form of a bibliography.

Alternative 2. Site Portfolio [group work] In the second alternative, the course participants will be given the option to research the site to be visited with a view to prepare a portfolio on a selected aspect of that site. This will be done in groups of 2 or 3, and will be accompanied by a site analysis portfolio comprised of a short written description of the site particulars along with its proper documentation. The aspect of the site to be selected will need to be approved by the instructor by Week 4. Grading Attendance 10%; Response papers / participation in group discussions 10%; Reading presentation and discussion moderation 20%; Field trip 10%; Portfolio / Essay Final presentation 40%; Portfolio / Essay Exhibition 10%.

*Additional Bibliography

Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. New York: Random House, 1997. Abulafia, David. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. London: Penguin, 2014. Alexander, Christopher et al. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Aran, Kemal. Beyond Shelter: Anatolian Indigenous Buildings. Ankara: Tepe Publishing, 2000. Banham, Reyner. The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. (1st ed. 1969) Canizaro, Vincent B. (ed.) Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Connolly, William E. “Materialities of Experience” in New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency and Politics, 178-200, edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

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Cosgrove, Denis. Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Frampton, Kenneth. “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance”, in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster. New York: New Press, 1998. Habraken, N. J. Palladio's Children: Seven Essays on the Everyday Environment and the Architect. 1st. Edited by Jonathan Teicher. Oxon: Taylor & Francis, 2005. Heidegger, Martin. “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” in Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1971. Horden, Peregrine and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. London: Blackwell, 2001. Kendir, Elif. “In Situ: Anadolu Taş Ustalarının Günümüzdeki Pratiği Üzerine.” Yapı 423, February 2017. Krauss, Rosalind. “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” October, Vol. 8. Spring, 1979. Latour, Bruno. “Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together,” in H. Kuklick (ed.) Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present, Vol. 6, 1-40. JAI Press, 1986. Leatherbarrow, David, and Mohsen Mostafavi. On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1993. Leatherbarrow, David. Uncommmon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. Leatherbarrow, David. Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Lefaivre, Liane and Alexander Tzionis. Critical Regionalism: Architecture and Identity in a Globalized World. New York: Prestel, 2003. Lefaivre, Liane and Alexander Tzionis. Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization. London: Routledge, 2012. Marsden, Philip. Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place. London: Granta, 2014. MacFarlane, Robert. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. London: Penguin Books, 2012. Pollan, Michael. A Place of my Own: Architecture of Daydreams. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.

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Sanderson, Eric W. “The Mannahatta Project,” in Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, 8-33. New York: Abrams, 2009. Schama, Simon. “Introduction,” in Landscape and Memory, 3-19. London: Harper Press, 2004. Serres, Michel. “Visit,” in The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies, 237-312. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Tzonis, Alex and Liane Lefaivre, “The grid and the pathway. An introduction to the work of Dimitris and Suzana Antonakakis”, Architecture in Greece (1981) 15, Athens. Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2016.

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