Thresholds of 20th century Arda Inceoglu, 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. 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 |
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Week 1: discourse on the method, r descartes,
pp 1-26 all that is solid melts into air, berman, pp 15-36 |
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Week 2: de stijl manifesto,
t van doesburg, pp 78-80 question 1: compare the
‘methodology’ of the two texts |
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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: |
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Week 4: work of art in the age of… w benjamin, pp 217-251
question 3: looking from today’s
perspective, is Benjamin right? |
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Week 5: holiday |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Week 10: Learning
from question 7: discuss the given image within
the context of popular – high |
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Week 11: question 8: discuss the given music
piece within the context of fusion |
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Six characters in search of an author, l pirandello The library of babel, j l borges |
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