GRADUATE ELECTIVES

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GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURE

Course
Code

Course Name

 

METU Credit

Contact (h/w)

Lab (h/w)

ECTS

ARCH505

Advanced Architectural Design Research

 

6

3

6

14

ARCH508

Research, Analysis and Design in Multi-Layered Context

 

4

2

4

8

ARCH511

Socio-Cultural Themes in Urban Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH512

Advanced Studies on Urban Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH517

Evolving Paradigm of Universal Design: Design for All People

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH524

Architecture & Different Modes of Representation

 

4

4

0

10

ARCH526

Politics and Space

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH527

Advanced Topics in Digital Constructivism

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH547

Architectural & the Social Context of Aesthetic Modernism I

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH543

Assessment of Interiors I

3

3

0

8

ARCH548

Architectural & the Social Context of Aesthetic Modernism II

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH571

Directed Studies in Environmental Design I

 

3

1

0

8

ARCH585

Computational Design Research Lab

 

4

2

4

10

ARCH586

Descriptive and Systematic Approaches to Design

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH591

Theory and History of Landscape Architecture I

3

3

0

8

ARCH592

Theory and History of Landscape Architecture II

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH609

Advanced Themes in Architectural & Urban Design

 

6

3

6

14

ARCH610

Advanced Themes in Architectural & Urban Design II

 

6

3

6

14

ARCH613

Critical Theories on Urban Architecture

 

3

3

0

4

ARCH614

Cartography of Architectural Theory

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH626

Issues in Architectural Research

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH627

Principles&Theories of Architectural Education

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH701

Descriptive & Systematic Approaches to Design

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH708

Housing and Discourse I

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH709

Housing and Discourse II

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH710

A Cartesian Approach to Design Rationality

 

3

2

2

8

ARCH713

Housing Research and Design Studio I

 

6

6

0

14

ARCH714

Housing Research and Design Studio II

 

6

6

0

14

ARCH715

Principles of Universal Design

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH716

Critical Urban Theories

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH717

Advanced Topics in Digital Constructivism

 

3

3

0

8

ARCH720

Architecture and Writing

 

3

0

3

8

ARCH721

Picturing The Modern City:Visions, Represent, Imagination

 

3

0

3

8

ARCH723

Advanced Architectural Design Research II

 

4

2

4

6

ARCH724

Architecture and Discourse

3

3

0

8

ARCH725

City In Contemporary Architectural Theory

3

3

0

8

ARCH750

Performative Architecture Lab

3

2

2

8

ARCH778

Formal Analysis of Buildings

 

2

2

3

3

 

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN BUILDING SCIENCE

 

 

 

Course
Code

Course Name

 

METU Credit

Contact (h/w)

Lab (h/w)

ECTS

BS504

Conducting Research in Building Science

3

2

2

8

BS509

Introduction to Construction Management

 

3

3

0

8

BS531

Studies on Architectural Structures

 

3

3

0

8

BS532

Geometrical & Morphological Analysis of Spatial Structures

 

3

3

0

8

BS533

Building Design Form and Structure

 

3

3

0

8

BS534

Analytical Modeling & Computer Analysis of Structures

 

3

3

0

8

BS536

Studies on Tall Buildings: Design Considerations

 

3

2

2

 8

BS552

Performance Assessment of Building

 

3

2

2

8

BS558

Advanced Construction Management

 

3

3

0

8

BS561

Data and Information Modelling for Construction Informatics

 

3

2

2

8

BS562

Construction Informatics

3

3

0

8

BS571

Directed Studies

NC

1

0

2

BS574

Composite Materials and Their Applications in Buildings

 

3

2

2

8

BS575

Acoustics in Architecture I

 

3

3

0

8

BS576

Acoustics in Architecture II

 

3

3

0

8

BS581

Energy Analysis of Buildings

 

3

3

0

8

BS583

Principles of Green Building Design and Delivery

 

3

3

0

4

BS705

Analy. Model. and Computer Analysis of Struc

 

3

3

0

8

BS706

Performance Assessment of Buildings

 

3

3

0

8

BS708

Advanced Structural Design

 

3

3

0

8

BS709

Composite Materials & Applications in Buildings

 

3

2

0

8

BS710

Development Of Metals: Reflections in Art & Architecture

 

3

2

2

8

BS711

The Art and Technology of Timber Construction

 

4

3

3

10

BS714

Living in Environment

 

3

2

2

4

BS715

Construction Informatics

 

3

3

0

4

BS723

Introduction to Machine Learning in Architecture

3

2

2

8

BS724

Nature-informed Computational Design in Architecure

3

2

2

8

BS770

Digital Fabrication Techniques in Architecture

 

3

2

2

4

 

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Course
Code

Course Name

 

METU Credit

Contact (h/w)

Lab (h/w)

ECTS

CONS506

Design in Architectural Conservation

 

8

4

8

16

CONS507

Planning and Design in Urban Conservation

 

8

4

8

16

CONS508

Workshop in Conservation I

 

6

3

6

8

CONS509

Workshop in Conservation II

 

6

3

6

8

CONS511

Theory of Restoration and Conservation

 

3

3

0

8

CONS512

Theory of Restoration and Conservation

 

3

3

0

8

CONS516

Heritage Recording and in Formation Management

 

3

3

0

4

CONS518

Technical Legal and Administrative Aspects of Conservation of Historic Environments

 

3

3

0

8

CONS521

Sources and Methods of Research in Conservation

 

3

3

0

8

CONS522

History of Architecture in The Middle East

 

3

3

0

8

CONS523

History of Restoration and Preservation in Turkey

 

3

3

0

8

CONS531

Structural Analysis of Hist. Build.

 

3

3

0

8

CONS533

Historical Structural Systems

 

3

3

0

8

CONS553

Materials of Construction and Ornament in Anatolian Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

CONS554

Materials of Construction and Ornament in Anatolian Architecture II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS555

Diagnosis and Treatment of Material Decay in Historic Structures

 

3

3

0

8

CONS556

The Laboratory and Conservation of Structures and Materials

 

3

2

2

8

CONS558

Laboratory Experiments in Conservation Science I

 

3

1

4

8

CONS559

Laboratory Experiments in Conservation Science II

 

3

1

4

8

CONS561

Architectural Photogrammetry

 

3

3

0

8

CONS563

Legal, Administrative and Technical Aspects of Restoration in Turkey

 

3

3

0

8

CONS647

Research in Historical Environment I

 

3

3

0

8

CONS648

Research in Historical Environment II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS655

Issues in Restoration I

 

3

3

0

8

CONS656

Issues in Restoration II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS657

Research in Vernacular Architecture I

 

3

3

0

8

CONS658

Research in Vernacular Architecture II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS675

History of Traditional Materials and Techniques I

 

3

3

0

8

CONS676

History of Traditional Materials and Techniques II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS685

Conservation of Materials I

 

3

3

0

8

CONS686

Conservation of Materials II

 

3

3

0

8

CONS702

Laboratory Experiments in Conservation Science II

 

3

1

4

8

 

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Course
Code

Course Name

 

METU Credit

Contact (h/w)

Lab (h/w)

ECTS

AH513

Aesthetics And Criticism I

 

3

3

0

8

AH514

Aesthetics And Criticism II

 

3

3

0

8

AH516

Architectural History Digital Humanities Lab

3

3

0

8

AH518

City, Movement and Architecture: Urban Processions in History

3

3

0

8

AH520

Topics on Urban From, Patterns and Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

AH521

Themes on Ancient Domestic Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

AH522

Special Topics in Byzantine Architecture: Art & Architecture of Byzantine Cappadocia

 

3

3

0

8

AH526

History and Theory of Art and Architectural Styles

3

3

0

8

AH533

Ottoman Architecture in The Nineteenth Century

 

3

3

0

8

AH534

Seminar in Contemporary Architecture

3

3

0

8

AH535

Approaches in Greek Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

AH536

Approaches in Roman Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

AH539

Cosmological Thought and Architecture In The Middle East

 

3

3

0

8

AH541

Assimilation of Western Modes in The Eighteenth Century Ottoman Architecture

 

3

3

0

8

AH543

Anatolian Seljuk Architecture(11-14th Centuries)

 

3

3

0

4

AH544

Architectural History Research Studio: Ankara, the Modern Capital City

 

3

2

2

8

AH546

Theories of History I

3

3

0

8

AH547

Theories of History II

 

3

3

0

8

AH548

Aesthetics and Psyche

 

3

3

0

8

AH571

Directed Studies in Architectural History

3

2

2

8

AH586

Ottoman Turkish For Architectural History

3

0

0

8

AH612

Imperial Architecture of the Ancient Near East

 

3

3

0

8

AH654

Framing the Past, Ruins and the Architectural History

 

3

3

0

4

AH655

Spaces and Practices of Displaying the Past

 

3

3

0

4

AH666

Medieval Buildings and Texts

3

3

0

4

AH668

Seminar in Classical Ottoman Architecture

3

3

0

8

AH671

Rethinking the Historiography of Renaissance Architecture

3

3

0

4

AH672

Historiography of Renaissance Architecture: Florence in the 19th Century

3

3

0

8

AH673

Architectural History of Reading and Writing

3

3

0

4