Thresholds of 20th century

Arda Inceoglu, inceogl4@itu.edu.tr

EXAM

The exam due date is Sunday 12:00 since the exams on Tuesday were postponed by the university. You can mail it to : inceogl4@itu.edu.tr. Later submissions will not be accepted.

The seminars were held since the majority of the class was present Tuesday. Groups that were not present shall turn in a printed out copy of their presentation until thursday 12:00 to me.

 

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 program for presentations:

 

December 20th

Social movements

Icon, cigarette, food

Housing design processes for ordinary people

Hasibe Akın

Yeşilçam

Destruction (9/11)

 

December 27th

Politics of seeing

Weightlessness

New definition of time

Music production

Transformation of (high) rise in the context of utopia

Emre Pur (Utopia)

Self Identity

 

3rd or 10th of January

Homelessness

Çamlıca & utopic vision

Modernity & Iranian cinema

Flaneur

Popularity

Melike Uzer

 

 

Week 1:

discourse on the method, r descartes, pp 1-26

all that is solid melts into air, berman, pp 15-36

 

Week 2:  

de stijl manifesto, t van doesburg, pp 78-80

manifesto, t tzara

question 1: compare the ‘methodology’ of the two texts

Please note that there is no class on October 11th.

We will meet at October 18th.

 

Week 3:

manifesto, f t marinetti, pp 1-5

manifesto, l moholy-nagy, pp 414-416

question 2: Fairbanks: finally potemkin masters the science of motionhow?

Week 4:

work of art in the age of… w benjamin, pp 217-251

question 3: looking from today’s perspective, is Benjamin right?

Week 5:

 

holiday

Week 6:

architecture and utopia, m tafuri, pp 78-103

the metropolis and mental life, g simmel, pp 69-79

question 4: discuss an utopia related with modernity

Week 7:

house as a mirror of self, c cooper marcus, pp 3-18

pattern language, c alexander

question 5: compare land-art and student movements of 1960’s

Week 8:

the lottery in Babylon, j l borges

If on a winters night a traveler, I calvino

question 6: draw a sketch of the structure of traveler

Week 9:

 

Week 10:

Learning from las vegas, r venturi et al

question 7: discuss the given image within the context of popular – high

kid

Week 11:

question 8: discuss the given music piece within the context of fusion

Firebird

Additional reading:

Six characters in search of an author, l pirandello

Ulyssess, j Joyce

The library of babel, j l borges

 

Engaging modernism, h heynen

Architecture and transgression, b tschumi

Art, architecture and modernity in modern culture, a vidler