KHAS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

ARCH 112 │ KEYWORDS IN ARCHITECTURE

3 Credits
Instructor: Dr. Ufuk Soyöz ufuk.soyoz@khas.edu.tr
Mondays: 13:00 – 16:00 @ B 410

Introduction & Course Objective:

This course introduces the students with the ‘keywords’ in architectural thought, such as
‘space’, ‘form’, ‘function’, ‘scale’, ‘movement’, ‘structure’, and ‘material’, along with concepts
architects think with, like ‘the user’, ‘the body’, ‘climate’, ‘nature’, ‘topography’, ‘context’, and
‘the city’, through the reading and discussion of selected text.

Parallel to this, the course also seeks to provide the students with fundamental tools and
methods to analyze and interpret architectural works within their
social/cultural/historical/urban/natural/technological contexts through fieldtrips and
consequent presentations & discussions of selected buildings or places in Istanbul.

Reading:

Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen

The Ten Most influential Buildings in History by Simon Unwin

Course Requirements:

• Students are expected to attend classes regularly, arrive on time, and not to leave until the
end.
•Students are expected to read the assigned material and be prepared for discussion before
each week’s class.
•Students are expected to participate in each fieldtrip. Fieldtrip destinations are tentatively
listed in the syllabus. Note that the destinations may change or other destinations may be added
to the list throughout the semester. Changes or additions will be announced before each trip in
class and/or via blackboard.

Presentation & Logbook Requirements:

Students are required to do single and/or group-presentations throughout the semester. Groups
will have to be reformed anew at every other presentations. The presentations will form the
content of final logbook assignments.

Students are required to take notes and draw sketches during the course and site visits. Thi
material will be submitted at the end of the course with a Logbook.

Course Evaluation:
Attendance & Weekly Presentations: %40
Final Presentations: %30
Log-book: % 30

Preliminary Schedule:

23.02.2023 Week 1: Introduction

1.03.2023 Module 1: Reading: Unwin, Basic Assignment I:

Architectural Elements of Description of
Elements Architecture, 7-20 architectural
elements

8.03.2023 Module 1: Reading: Unwin

Archetypes: Column

15.03.2023 Module 1: Reading: Unwin

Archetypes: Circle

22.03.2023 Module 2: Reading: Rasmussen,

Experience Basic Observations, 9-
34

29.03.2023 Module 2: Narrative Lecture by Mentor: Student

and Architecture Gürbey Hız Presentations

5.04.2023 Module 2: Rasmussen,

Architecture Rasmussen,
experienced as Color Architecture
Planes Experienced as Color
Planes, 83-103:
Topkapı Palace Visit

12.04.2023 Spring Break

19.04.2023 Module 3: Mentor: Ezgi Akarsu

Architecture, Design from Tufetto
and Technology
26.04.2024 Module 3: Scale and Reading: Rasmussen
Proportion 215-223

3.05.2024 Module 3: Modular Reading: TBA

Design
Guest Lecturer: Füsun
Alioğlu

10.05.2024 Module 4: Reading: Unwin, 128-

Archetypes: Theater 159

17.05.2024 Module 4: Theater

Research Week

24.05.2024 Module 4: Theater Presentations

Presentations

31.05.2024 Final Review