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IMB2004 | Aesthetics | 2+0+0 | ECTS:2 | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Compulsory | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Asu BEŞGEN | Co-Lecturer | - | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | To discuss the relationship between aesthetics and architecture; emphasize the essence, importance and the place of aesthetics in social, cultural and daily life, in architectural education, and in design activity. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | questionnaire the concept of aesthetics within the changing - developing historical process. | 1,2,3,4 | 1,5, | LO - 2 : | define the functions of subject and object concepts in aesthetic perception. | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3, | LO - 3 : | test the primary sensations for having pleasure in aesthetic perception. | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3, | LO - 4 : | interpret the perceptional, symbolic and formal aesthetics of any architectural example. | 1,2,3,4 | 1,2,3,5, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | |
Basic concepts: Aesthetics, beauty, art and architecture. The science of aesthetics and its studying fields: Aesthetic doctrines, environmental aesthetics, Gestalt theory, aesthetics as an evaluation criteria in architecture. Concepts related with form: Module, proportion, rhythm, symmetry. Approaches on formalisation: Visualisation, abstraction, thinking and conceptualisation. Perceptional aesthetics, symbolic aesthetics, formal aesthetics. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Input and course of lesson to be presented. | | Week 2 | Subjectivist- pschologic aesthetic- aesthetic behaviors. | | Week 3 | Analysis of aesthetic object, art and creativity. | | Week 4 | Artistic content. | | Week 5 | Artistic form. | | Week 6 | Beauty as a concept, beauty in nature- beauty in art. | | Week 7 | Analysis of spaces in view of aesthetics. | | Week 8 | Definitions of the concepts of beauty and aesthetics; their progress and changes in historical course; introduction to the aesthetic theories of 20th century. | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam
| | Week 10 | Introduction to percept and perception; the place of beauty and aesthetics in the relationship of man and perception; the types of perception: audial, tactual, olfactif and visaul perception; the conditions of perception; the concepts of sense, emotion, to feel and to think in perception and aesthetics. | | Week 11 | The relationship between perception, aesthetics and architecture; the changing definitions of aesthetics by the context of perception, in the history of architectural course; the place and importance of beauty and aesthetics in architecture. | | Week 12 | The methods of aesthetic evaluation: Emotional aesthetics; the concepts of sensation, emotion and pleasure; discussions on the emotional aesthetics of architecture. | | Week 13 | The methods of aesthetic evaluation: Introduction to symbolic aesthetics; symbol, image, symbolic meaning; form of the building, spatial formalisations, materials, essential structure of lighting, constitutional colur concept; discussions on the symbolic aesthetics of architecture. | | Week 14 | The methods of aesthetic evaluation: Introduction to formal aesthetics; composition, gestalt, order, proportion, movement, rythm, hegemony, balance, unity, discussions on the formal aesthetics of architecture. | | Week 15 | Submitting the homeworks, evaluation of the course and discussions. | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Tunalı, İ., 1979, Estetik, Bahar Matbaası, İstanbul | | 2 | Lucas, G., 1978,1981,Estetik I-II, (Çev: Ahmet Cemal) , Payel Yayınevi, İstanbul. | | |
1 | Öztürk, K. , 1978, Mimarlıkta Tasarım Sürecinde Cephelerin Estetik Ağırlıklı Sayısal/Nesnel Değerlendirilmesi İçin Bir Yöntem Araştırması, Doktora Tezi, KTÜ, Trabzon | | 2 | Gençosmanoğlu Beşgen, A. , 2001, Estetik ve Mimarlıkta Kavram, Kavramsal Analiz, Kavramlaştırma / 1980 Sonrası Mimarlık Ürünleri Üzerine Örneklemeler, Doktora Tezi, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Trabzon. | | 3 | Semra Aydınlı,1992, Mimarlıkta Görsel Analiz, İTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Yayını, İstanbul. | | 4 | Semra Aydınlı, 1993; Mimarlıkta Estetik Değerler, İTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, İstanbul | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 12/04/2022 | 1 | 30 | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 13 | | 3 | 20 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 24/05/2022 | 1 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 15 | 30 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 10 | 20 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ödev | 3 | 1 | 3 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 1 | 3 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | Total work load | | | 60 |
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