Since 2014, ETSAB, under the name BAU Winter Workshop, has been running in BAU at the end of the fall semester. Adopting a multicultural perspective, BAU Winter Workshop offers a five-day intense program organized under a new topic each year. Enriched b visits to museums, architecture offices, and intercity trips, BAU Winter Workshops attracts 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 at Fachhochshule Salzburg (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences), Austria. Mutual visits of both universities have been taking place for ten years. The study in Salzburg is conducted as a one-week design workshop, including participation of FH Salzburg students and exchange students from other universities. Participants will tour the city visiting sites, museums, and exhibitions presenting Salzburg’s historical and modern identity. In the FH Salzburg Winter School, mixed groups of students from different countries and departments will collaborate on design applications at 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 form 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 twice 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 focused on wood, glass, and ceramic tile (çini), and they also have the opportunity to examine preservation and restoration works in Dolmabahçe and Yıldız palaces. In addition to visiting Istanbul's significant historical and touristic sites, ICSA’s 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, get involved in the ongoing work, and compare the practices to those in their own country. All these activities are credited parts of the course requirements in Mukogawa University. The program ends with an exhibition comprised of students' works.
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Anatolia- Anadolu in Turkish, meaning ”the land of sunrise” in Greek, was 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 go back to Prehistoric times with Neolithic cultures such as Hittites and Luwians, and later on Persians, Carians, Aiols, Greeks, and Romans, all leaving traces of their cultures in Anatolia. Each culture has evolved its own spatial structure either by building on top of the preceding accumulation or by eradicating the existing built environment-- always with its own worldview. The existence and survival of various cultures have reflected themselves 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, the latest excavations display the precedence of Hittites even in the Western Anatolian settlements of antiquity. Therefore, ARCH- ANTIQUE aims at providing students with the opportunity of exploring the architecture and technology of 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”. This program’s on site teaching/learning methods and excursions to historic settlements allow students to spend some time in a rich natural environment (sea, sun, vineyards), which provided circumstances and a means of survival for all civilizations that have lived in this region. Excursions will cover the cities of Smyrna, Metropolis, Ephesus, Miletus, Priene, and 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 in the shaping of the built environment, and building types such as amphitheatre, bouleuterion, and odeon.
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 stones, and structural systems and their evolution from trabeated (post and lintel) to arcuated systems.
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This three week summer school on the architecture of Istanbul aims to explore the rich architectural heritage of a profoundly diverse and multi-cultural city. Istanbul was and 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 aids in understanding the individual building as an integral component of the urban fabric.
The lecture sessions will be conducted at Bahçeşehir University, which is located in the heart of the city on the European side of the Bosphorus. The campus location offers gorgeous views of the Bosphorus and Imperial palaces and provides easy access to many Ottoman Palaces, cultural centers, and major exhibition centers. Lectures will be followed by site visits contextualizing the material being taught in the class.
ARCH-IST 3001 - BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
After the Turkish War of Independence the efforts were concentrated on building a new capital, Ankara. In the new republic, Istanbul regained importance after the 1950’s with buildings representing the First and Second National Styles constituting the highlights of this period: 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. 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 the 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. The most spectacular examples of religious and cultural centers, funerary, educational, health and residential facilities, and engineering structures of Ottoman Architecture were built in this era. Monumental architectural complexes marking the Ottoman capital and constructed by Mimar Sinan in this period will be analyzed and discussed as well. The unit concludes with a study on Western influences on Ottoman Architecture.
ARCH-IST 4001 – 19YY. ARHITECTURE
This unit concentrates on the modernization of the Ottoman Empire. Concomitant with the relocation of the Ottoman court to Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus, many modernization efforts focused first on the military and then expanded to encompass all the aspects of daily life: construction of new numerous military barracks (kışlalar); the establishment of municipalities; introduction of new modes of transportation such as railroads, horse-drawn, subways, and ferries; 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, encouraging the use of masonry instead of wood, and “beautifying” the city in general. In short, the elements of modernity were injected into a traditional society. Some of the significant examples of architecture of this period in the scope of this unit are the Classical Revivalist Style located in Pera; the works of the Fossati Brothers, James Smith, Raimondo D’Aranco, and Alexandre Valaury; multi-story houses; schools; military barracks; palaces; religious buildings; and industrial buildings.
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.
This three week summer school on Istanbul’s interior spaces has been offered since 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 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 in the heart of the city on the European side of the Bosphorus. The campus location offers gorgeous views of the Bosphorus and Imperial palaces and provides easy access to many Ottoman Palaces, cultural centers, and major exhibition centers. Lectures will be followed by site visits contextualizing the material being taught in the class.
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 due care of 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 the 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 a collaboration between 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 their personal then emotional maps through their experiences in Istanbul. This joint project of the Faculty of Architecture & Design and the 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 the settlements of Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople, and Ottoman Istanbul. Though it will focus within the walled city, the course will also include the development of the city in 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 two-fold: to unfold the layered structure of the city through the centuries at urban and regional scales; to study singular urban monuments at the architectural scale. It is the aim of this course to equip the students with a broad understanding of the layered urban structure(s) and various urban challenges and problems of the city that was the capital of the East Roman Empire, the center of Greek Orthodoxy, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the center of Sunni Islam, and now a world metropolis. While presenting the city’s 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’s complex and complicated history, yet telling an exceptionally unique story, novel in world history.
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