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Architectural works are designed after concepts inspired by our natural and cultural environment. As Erwin Panofsky puts it, "... meaning can only be apprehended by re-producing, and thereby 'realizing’ the conceptions that manifest themselves (in forms)”. This course is an attempt to revive concepts that apparently shaped medieval buildings in the Middle East.

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AH 541 Ottoman Architecture in the Eighteenth Century

This course contains an in depth survey of political, social, economic, cultural aspects and architecture of the eighteenth century, which provides a kaleidoscopic vision of the Ottoman way of life and material culture in this initial era of Occidentalism. The course focuses on how the Ottomans incorporated Western European cultural concepts and architectural features into local traditions. The Occidentalizing tendencies, a distinguishing characteristic of the century in the Ottoman world, are studied in reference to European Orientalism and Exoticism. The course also discusses the use of the term Baroque for the century and its implications.

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AH 543 Anatolian Seljuk Architecture (11-14^th Centuries)

This course investigates Seljuk architecture in Anatolia (11-14th c.) in terms of its forms, styles, building types, symbolic meanings, regional cahracteristics, social and political background and landscape.

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ARCH 440 Masterworks of Medieval Architecture in East and West

This course investigates masterworks of Islamic and Christian architecture in medieval age. A group of selected buildings are analyzed in terms of their structural, formal and stylistic features. These buildings are the foremost representatives of their age and architectural type. This course will be constructive in creating an overall view about the cultural and historical contexts wherein monumental buildings were produced. Exposure to the structural evolution that led to these buildings will provide students with basic knowledge on design methods in medieval age. Students will be acquainted with the main creative impulses in different epochs and regions of medieval architecture.

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ARCH 211 History of Art and Architecture II

This course investigates masterworks of Islamic and Christian architecture in medieval age. A group of buildings selected as the foremost representatives of their age and architectural type are analyzed in terms of their structural, formal and stylistic features.

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ARCH 326 Architecture in Situ: Seljuk and Ottoman Art and Architecture in Turkey

The art and architecture of the Anatolian cultures, lying between East and West, have always shown a synthesis of these two zones. This course, considering this process of synthesis, will survey the art and architecture of the Seljuks and Ottomans from the perspective of the cultural transformation that occurred in Anatolia after the Turkish conquest. This course is an attempt to make the students familiar with the unique feature of Anatolia as a land of cultural blending.

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