Since 2014, ETSAB pays a return visit to BAU at the end of fall semester, in the name of BAU Winter Workshop. This workshop offers a five-day intense program. Adopting a multicultural perspective, BAU Winter Workshop is organized with a new topic each year, enriched by visits to museums and architecture offices, and intercity trips. BAU winter workshops draw attention of 45-50 ETSAB students, as well as students from different architecture schools in Istanbul. It is hoped that these winter schools will be sustainable, strengthening the bonds between two beautiful cities, Istanbul and Barcelona, as much as BAU and UPC.
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Salzburg Winter School is held each year with the participation of students from all departments of BAU Faculty of Architecture & Design; Architecture, Industrial Design, and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. The school is organized as a part of ongoing workshop in the winter term of Fachhochshule Salzburg (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences), Austria. Mutual visits of both universities are continuing for ten years. The study in Salzburg is conducted as a one-week design workshop, including participation of FH Salzburg students and exchange students based on other universities. Places, museums and exhibitions belonging to the historical or modern identity of the city are visited during Salzburg city tour. In the FH Salzburg Winter School, mixed groups of students from different countries and departments collaborate on applications of designs in various scales. Prof. Dr. Elçin Tezel and Inst. Sinan Polvan from BAU, and instructors Ulrike Szigeti, Günther Grall, Michael Ebner, Alexander Petutschnigg and Bernd Stelzer from FH Salzburg constitute a jury each year for the evaluation of workshop products.
ICSA (Inter-Cultural Study of Architecture) summer school activity is an international exchange program held two times in a year in Japan and Turkey with the participation of Japanese and Turkish students under the collaboration of Bahcesehir University and Mukogawa Women’s University, with the aim of creating an intercultural architecture studio environment.
ICSA in Istanbul is conducted by ICSA coordinators Prof. Dr. Murat Dündar and Asst. Prof. Dr. Sinem Kültür, and hosted by BAU each year in October, with the participation of 15 students and 2 instructors from Mukogawa University. Within the scope of the activity, students participate in various traditional workshops, especially of wood, glass and ceramic tile (çini), and they also have the opportunity to examine preservation and restoration works in Dolmabahçe and Yıldız palaces. Beside Istanbul's significant historical and touristic sites, ICSA in Istanbul program offers one-day technical trips to Edirne, Bursa and İznik. Students of Mukogawa University, who visit our university within the scope of Preservation-Restoration master's course, have the chance to observe technical and scientific interventions made for historic buildings as part of cultural heritage and their qualified furnishing, to experience by getting involved in the ongoing works, and to compare them with similar applications in their own country. All these activities are included to the requirements of the course in Mukogawa University and they are credited. The program ends with an exhibition comprised of students' work.
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Anatolia- Anadolu in Turkish, meaning ‘the land of sunrise’ in Greek, is also known as Asia Minor, the name given to the prominent Eastern Province of the Roman Empire. Located at the intersection of Asia and Europe, Anatolia, has been the center of various civilizations throughout the ages. The roots going back to Prehistoric times, Neolithic cultures such as Hittites and Luwians, and later on Persians, Carians, Aiols, Greeks and Romans have all left traces of their culture in Anatolia. Each culture has evolved its own spatial structure either by building above the preceding accumulation or by eradicating the existing built environment, but always with its own worldview. Existence and survival of various cultures has reflected itself in the built environment in the form of layered settlement patterns with a variety of architectural styles as in Troy and Bayraklı .While the settlements such as Çatalhöyük and Hacılar reveal the existence of Hittites in Central Anatolia, latest excavations display the precedence of Hittites even in Western Anatolian settlements of Antiquity. Therefore, ARCH- ANTIQUE aims at providing students with the opportunity of exploring the architecture and technology in Antiquity with its roots in the Neolithic era through the rich multi-cultural heritage of Western Anatolia which is known to be ‘the cradle of civilizations’. ‘On the spot teaching/learning methods’ of this program and excursions to the Antique settlements offer students to spend some time in a rich natural environment (sea, sun, vineyards and olive oil..) which constitutes a background and a means of survival for all civilizations living in the Region. Excursions will cover the cities of Smyrna, Metropolis, Ephesus, Miletus, Priene, Didyma.
ARCH-ANTIQUE 3021 - ARCHITECTURE IN ANTIQUITY
This unit is about the history of architecture in Antiquity with specific emphasis to West Anatolian settlements. The aim of the course is to provide knowledge to students -architects of the future- about how architecture takes form, what effects its composition and cultural background; natural or man-made factors on the shaping of the built environment; building types such as amphitheatre, bouleuterion, odeon etc.
ARCH-ANTIQUE 3051 - ARCHITECTURAL TECTONICS IN ANTIQUITY
The aim of this unit is to explore and to understand architectural technology and its reflections on built environment in Antiquity through the concrete examples in the selected Western Anatolian settlements. The subjects covered in this unit are the materials and methods of construction, stone as a building material and its meaning in architecture, stone masonry, the art of joining in stone, structural systems and their evolution from trabeated (post and lintel) to arcuated systems.
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is a three week summer school on the architecture of Istanbul and aims to explore the rich architectural heritage of a profoundly diverse and multi-cultural city. Istanbul was and still continues to be the gravitational center of Orthodox, Christian, Balkan, Caucasian, Anatolian, and Central Asian worlds. It is the cultural capital of Europe and boasts a concordant variety of seminal buildings and provoking urban spaces.
With its “on-the-spot” teaching methods, arch.ist addresses not only the usual give and take between the built form and its natural or urban context, but also helps to understand the individual building as an integral component of the urban fabric.
The lecture sessions will be conducted at Bahçeşehir University, which is located at the heart of the city, on the European side of the Bosphorus. Lectures will be followed by the site visits contextualizing the material being taught in the class. The location of the campus offers gorgeous views of the Bosphorus and the Seraglio, and provides easy access to many Ottoman Palaces, cultural centers and major exhibition centers.
ARCH-IST 3001 - BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
After the Turkish War of Independence, the efforts were concentrated on building up a new capital, Ankara. In the new republic, Istanbul regained importance after 1950’s. Buildings representing the First and Second National Styles; works of Turkish architects, Vedat Tek, Architect Kemalettin, Sedad Hakki Eldem, Emin Onat, Arif Hikmet Koyuncu; and the works of foreign architects Bruno Taut, SOM, and August Perret constitute the highlights of this period. Moreover, projects related to the rehabilitation of historic urban environments and the adaptive reuse of historic buildings constitute excellent case studies for discussing the emerging themes in the field of historic preservation such as the protection of minority heritage sites, prevention of gentrification, and issues of social equity.
ARCH-IST 3002 - OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE
This unit begins with a trip either to Edirne or Bursa, the former capitals of Ottoman Empire. Students explore the origins of Ottoman Architecture’s basic typologies. The unit continues in Istanbul where the students can trace the development of these typologies. It is in this era that the most spectacular examples of religious and cultural centers, funerary, educational, health and residential facilities; and engineering structures of Ottoman Architecture have been built. Monumental architectural complexes by Sinan in this period, which marked the Ottoman capital, are going to be analyzed and discussed as well. The unit concludes with a study on Western influences in Ottoman Architecture.
ARCH-IST 4001 – 19YY. ARHITECTURE
This unit concentrates on the modernization of the Ottoman Empire. Modernization efforts focused first on the military, and then expanded to encompass all the aspects of daily life. Cocominant with the relocation of the Ottoman court to the Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus, construction of new numerous military barracks (kışlalar); the establishment of municipalities; introduction of new modes of transportation such as railroads, horse-drawn, subways, and ferrie; the inauguration of new institutions such as postal service and police force; and the development of new housing areas and styles as well as new building regulations. The will to Westernize and to have healthier cities prompted the ruling elite to impose a series of urban planning regulation aimed at regularizing Istanbul’s medieval urban fabric, prompting the use of masonry instead of wood, and “beautifying” the city in general. In short, the elements of modernity were injected to a traditional society. Some of the significant examples of architecture of this period are in Classical Revivalist Style located in Pera, and the works of Fossati Brothers, James Smith, Raimondo D’Aranco, Alexandre Valaury; multi-story houses; schools; military barracks; palaces; religious buildings; industrial buildings are in the scope of this unit.
ARCH-IST 4002 – CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
After the Turkish War of Independence, the efforts were concentrated on building up a new capital, Ankara. In the new republic, Istanbul regained importance after 1950’s. Buildings representing the First and Second National Styles; works of Turkish architects, Vedat Tek, Architect Kemalettin, Sedad Hakki Eldem, Emin Onat, Arif Hikmet Koyuncu; and the works of foreign architects Bruno Taut, SOM, and August Perret constitute the highlights of this period. Moreover, projects related to the rehabilitation of historic urban environments and the adaptive reuse of historic buildings constitute excellent case studies for discussing the emerging themes in the field of historic preservation such as the protection of minority heritage sites, prevention of gentrification, and issues of social equity.
is a three week summer school on Istanbul’s interior spaces offered in the summer of 2009. It focuses on the analysis and the interpretation of the rich and diverse spatial heritage of a multi-cultural city. Istanbul is the cultural capital of Europe and it boasts a variety of world-renowned buildings with masterly designed and meticulously crafted interior spaces. Its unique urban fabric offers possibilities for studying the relationship between interiors and overall building mass and envelope.
The lecture sessions will be conducted at Bahçeşehir University, which is located at the heart of the city, on the European side of the Bosphorus. Lectures will be followed by site visits for on-the-spot teaching for contextualizing the material being taught in class. The location of the campus offers gorgeous views of the Bosphorus and the Seraglio, and provides easy access to many Ottoman Palaces, cultural centers and major exhibition centers.
INT-IST 3001 – SACRED INTERIORS
This unit includes the analysis of major religious buildings, building complexes, and related structures belonging to the three main creeds represented in Istanbul - Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Istanbul boasts close to two-and-a-half millennia of history, spanning the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican eras. Accordingly, the city’s rich heritage of religious architecture includes countless examples of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Churches, mosques from all epochs as well as the finest synagogues. In this unit, emphasis will be on design concerns such as spatial proportions of interiors, spatial character and space-defining elements, surface treatment and embellishments, roofing choice, light, color, and texture.
INT-IST 3002 – CONVERTED SPACES
Functional lives of buildings, more often than not, are shorter than their physical and cultural lives. Obsolete and derelict buildings, given the due care for their conversion and renovation, may successfully turn out to be masterpieces, for present-day modes of utilization. The planning of this unit is based on the premise that spatial conversion of buildings falls within the domain of interior design.
INT-IST 3003 – BOSPHORUS MANSIONS
One of the distinctive architectural characteristics of Istanbul is the spectacular and unique residential structures lying on the shores and hills of Bosphorus. Within the scope of the course distinctive examples of yali–waterfront mansions-, kasir–hunting palaces-, köşk–inland mansions-, and waterfront Ottoman palaces will be visited and their interior spaces will be analyzed and discussed.
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Visual-Ist Summer School is held in collaboration with Virginia Technical University and Bahçeşehir University. The aim of this program is to address visual encounters and narratives across cultures and space. The program includes lectures on visual culture of Turkey and Istanbul, in addition to field trips to various destinations of Istanbul having distinct features. Participating students from Virginia Technical University and Bahçeşehir University develop first their personal, then emotional maps through their experiences in Istanbul. This joint project of Faculty of Architecture & Design and Faculty of Communication records a series of image-events and explores means of narrative expressions of local versus universal.
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The course aims to introduce the historical evolution of the built form of Istanbul with a special emphasis on the urban formation within the walled city. The course will explore urban history unfolding the layers of settlements of Byzantion, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul. Though it will focus within the walled city, the course will also include the development of the city through Pera, Galata, and the Bosphorus in different historical periods; as well as the rapid urbanization and metropolis-becoming of the Greater Istanbul region in the 20th century.
The aim of the course is bi-fold. First one is to unfold the layered structure of the city through centuries in urban and regional scales. Second one is to study singular urban monuments in architectural scale. It is the aim of this course to equip the students with a broad understanding of layered urban structure(s) of the city which was the capital of the East Roman Empire – center of the Greek Orthodoxy; the capital of Ottoman Empire – center of Sunni Islam, and, which has now become a world metropolitan - housing various urban challenges and problems. While discovering the city in urban scale, the course aims to explore and experience various urban monuments – each unique in its architectural setting and artistic creation; but all related to one another - intertextually weaving the city and its history into a complex and complicated; yet telling an exceptionally unique story - novel in world history.
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