Program tanımlarıGRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
The aim of the M.A. program in Architectural History is to promote knowledge production and documentation of different periods and geographical areas of architectural culture and built environment through teaching and original research with historiographical and theoretical rigor; to familiarize students with both different perspectives on architectural history and recent developments in the humanities and social sciences at large; and by doing so, to train experts equipped with the requisite knowledge, analytical skills and initiative to undertake duties at academic institutions, research centers and relevant state institutions as architectural historians; to competently take part in international scholarship and assume an active role in institutionalizing architectural history in Turkey.
Research interests and disciplinary backgrounds of the staff cover various fields of history and theory of art and architecture. METU Graduate Program in Architectural History is offered within the Department of Architecture but is integrated with the Institute of Social Sciences and shaped by the concerns of the humanities.
There is no disciplinary limitation for the applicants, but applications from the graduates of architecture and related fields in the fine arts, humanities and social sciences are especially invited. Applicants from all fields are required to demonstrate their interest and familiarity with architectural history through transcripts, satisfactory performance in entrance examinations and a portfolio. Proficiency in English is required of all applicants.
Accepted students may be asked to attend undergraduate courses in architectural history at the METU Department of Architecture before enrolling in the program. M.A students are required to take seven courses (min. 21 credits) and write a thesis.
PROFESSORS
Aslanoğlu, İnci (Emeritus): B.Arch., M.Arch., METU; Ph.D., ITU.
Early Republican Turkish Architecture, Foreign Architects in the 20th Century Turkish Architectural Scene, Ottoman Architecture, Ottoman and Western Architecture in the Nineteenth Century, Italian Renaissance Architecture, European and Ottoman Baroque Architecture
Erzen, Jale: B.F.A., M.F.A., Art Center College of Design L.A.; Ph.D., ITU.
Ottoman Aesthetics, Ottoman Miniatures, Ottoman Architecture of the 15th-16th Centuries; Modern Art, Turkish Art General, Art Criticism; Aesthetics; Environmental Aesthetics
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Late Antiquity and Early Christian Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Latin Architecture in the Medieval East, Cypriot Studies, Architectural Historiography
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Peker, Ali Uzay: B.A., İstanbul University; M.A., Boğaziçi University; Ph.D., ITU.
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Late Antiquity and Early Christian Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Latin Architecture in the Medieval East, Cypriot Studies, Architectural Historiography
Modernism, Twentieth-Century Italian Architecture, Historiography, Theories of Vision and Visuality, Ottoman-Venetian Relations
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Altan Ergut, Elvan: B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., SUNY at Binghamton.
19th and 20th Century Architecture, Architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, Modernism and Modernization in Architecture, Architectural Historiography, 20th Century Architectural Theory
Early Modern Architectural Theory, History of Architectural Books, History of the Body in Architectural Theory, History and Theory of Architectural Historiography, Architectural Encounters between "East" and "West" in the 15th-16th and the 19th centuries
Özgenel, Lale: B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D. METU.
Domestic Architecture in Classical and Late Antiquity, History of Domestic Architecture and Daily Life, Privacy and Gender Studies
INSTRUCTORS
Erkal, Namık: B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D., METU.
Urban history, Architecture of City Frontier, Byzantion-Constantinople -Istanbul
M.A. Program Required Courses
AH 501 Research Methods (3-0)3
AH 504 Prothesis Seminar (0-2)NC
AH 599 M.A. Thesis in History of Architecture NC
AH 8XX Special Studies (4-2)NC
Elective Courses
AH 513-514 Aesthetics and CriticismI-II (3-0)3
AH 520 Seminar on Urban Defences: Architecture of the City Frontier (3-0) 3
AH 521 Themes on Ancient Domestic Architecture (3-0) 3
AH 522 Art and Architecture in Byzantine Cappadocia (3-0)3
AH 526 History and Theory of Art and Architectural Styles (3-0)3
AH 533 Seminar in Cross-Cultural Studies: 19th Century Developments (3-0)3
AH 535 Seminar in Greek Architecture (3-0)3
AH 536 Seminar in Roman Architecture (3-0)3
AH 539 Cosmological Thought and Architecture in the Middle East (3-0)3
AH 541 Assimilation of Western Modes in the Eighteenth Century Ottoman Architecture (3-0)3
AH 544 Architectural History Research Studio: Ankara, the Modern Capital City (3-2)3
AH 546 Theories of History I: Althusser, Jameson and the Annales School (3-0)3
AH 547 Theories of History II: Visuality, Spatiality and Materiality (3-0)3
AH 548 Aesthetics and the Psyche (3-0)3
AH 701 Medieval Buildings and Texts (3-0)3