AH508
| Course Code: |
8010508 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
History Of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Traveling to distant lands, foreign cities, anciens sites, and singular architectures have always been part of the training and profession of the archilect. The first part of this course focuses on the emergence, establishment, and representation of travel in relation to architecture. Critical positions on exclusive and colonizing forms of travel are cultivated alongside assessment of architecture´s entanglement with mobility in modern era. The second part is reserved to field work, to the journey taken together to a chosen destination, and the developmentof individual critical/creative projects for the exhibition assembled at the end of the semester.The aim of the journey is to develop self-constructed knowledges about the sites visited regarded as places opento variable interpretations rather than iconic sites with solidified meanings. The projects are expected to express such self-constructed knowledges and personel interpretations as much as information about the visited locales.
