ARCH 481

Course Code & Number

ARCH 481

Course Title

Reading Architectural Precedents

Level

BS

Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits

(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 5 ECTS Credits

Year of Study:

Senior

Semester:

Fall

Type of Course:

Departmental Elective

Mode of Delivery:

Face-to-face

Language of Instruction:

English

Pre-requisite / Co-requisite::

Catalog Description

Formal analysis of exemplary buildings. Critical reading of an architectural form. Examination of formal and spatial principles of a selected building. Exploration of formal elements and relations between these elements, and transformational operations on form.

Course Objectives

The course equips students with the knowledge of design through analytical processes. The course aims to develop critical and graphical readings of architectural precedents by focusing on the design processes and transformational operations that generate the architectural form. The critical reflection on exemplary buildings will make students better understand the practice of architecture.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

1. Recognize the important role of case studies in design research as both a theoretical and practical means of reasoning,

2. Acquire the essential skills for critical reading, interpreting and understanding architectural form,

3. Explore the formal and spatial principles of architecture,

4. Examine formal elements of a selected building, relations between these elements, and transformational operations on the form,

5. Produce a critical reading of the architectural form.

Course Coordinator:

Dr. Berin Fatma Gür