Course Language:
İngilizce
Course Objectives:
To provide the students, with the types and comparisons of furnitures which occurred in accordance with different art movements and various architectural periods. To enlighten the students about the historical process which furniture design has gone through so far.
Course Content:
The transformation that the furniture has gone through since early ages until today. Styles, major designers, furniture carpenters and how furniture has reached today chronologically.
Course Methodology:
1: Lecture, 2: Question- Answer, 3 : Discussion, 4-Drill and Practice
Course Evaluation Methods:
A: Testing, B:Presentation, C: Homework, D:Project assignments
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1) To bring the students to a level that they can have enough information about furniture design and to make them capable of re-express the designs when necessary. |
1,2,5,12 |
1,2,3 |
A,B,C |
| 2) To be able to make use of antique furnitures in today’s interior architectural projects. |
1,2,7 |
1,2,3 |
A,B,C |
| 3) In addition to furniture design, to give comprehensive information about the trends, concepts, movements, and how these have contributed to projects and designs. |
1,2,5,7 |
1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 4) To give an understanding for the art pieces at the Auction Houses. |
5,11,12 |
1,2,3 | A,B,C |
| 5) To give students the skills in expressing themselves in conversations related to antique piece of furniture. |
5,9,11 |
1,2,3 | A,B,C |
Course Flow
| Week | Topics | Study Materials |
| 1 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Bronze and Iron Age. | |
| 2 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Early Middle Age. | |
| 3 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Gothic Period. | |
| 4 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Renaissance Period. | |
| 5 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Baroque Period. | |
| 6 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Rococo Period. | |
| 7 |
Midterm Exam
Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Neo-Classic Period. |
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| 8 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Empire Period. | |
| 9 | Examining the period of change in the 19th. Century with the industrialization. | |
| 10 | Re-reading the old styles. Forming new materials and new techniques. | |
| 11 |
Midterm Exam
The transformation period towards the comfort and usefullness of pieces of furniture. The process of change, which resulted from prioritization of comfort of pieces of furniture. Forming a new perspective on design within the abow mention period. |
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| 12 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders which were used during the Hand Crafts Movement Period and the Art Nouveau Period. | |
| 13 | Informing the students by giving examples about pieces of furniture and their placement orders which were used during the 20th century and the Period of Modernism. | |
| 14 | Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders, which were used during the Art Deco and the Second War. Make-up Exam | |
| 15 |
Informing the students by giving examples about the furnitures and their placement orders, which were used between sixties, eighties and nineties.
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Recommended Sources
| Resources |
Mobilya Tarihi Kitabı, Oya Boyla
Oya Boyla Mobilya Tarihi dersi ders notları Stilhandbuch, Ernst Rettelbush Antique Collector’s Directory of Period Detail, Paul Davidson Furniture, World Styles from Classical to Contemporary, Judith Miller Furniture in History, Dr.Leslie Pina Designer’s Guide to Furniture Styles, Treena Crochet History of Modern Design, David Raizman |
Assessment
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Mid-terms | 2 | 50 |
| Project assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Contribution of final examination to overall grade | 40 | |
| Total | 100 |
| COURSE CATEGORY | Expertise/Field Courses |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | The ability of applying artistic and technical knowledge in developing contemporary and genuine designs within the scope of interior architectural discipline. | X | |||||
| 2 | The ability of understanding the interaction between people and the physical environment. | X | |||||
| 3 | The capability of thinking and expressing in two and three dimensional ways within the design process. | ||||||
| 4 | The ability of analytical researching, critical approach developing and problem solving in the field of art and design. | X | |||||
| 5 | The ability of establishing the relationship between the past, present and the future and evaluating design applications within the historical and artistic process. | X | |||||
| 6 | The ability of using techniques and technology to realise contemporary interior architectural applications. | ||||||
| 7 | The ability of having control on different architectural scales and solving the details within the process of designing interior space and equipments. | X | |||||
| 8 | The ability to develop approaches on conservation and reuse at national and local level | ||||||
| 9 | The ability of being versatile in working at interdisciplinary applications and teamwork. | X | |||||
| 10 | The abilitity of knowledge and application of practice of occupational standards, regulations, ordinances and the rules of law. | ||||||
| 11 | The ability of establishing effective communication and expressing ideas within the visual, oral and literary field. | X | |||||
| 12 | The ability of to follow- up the developments within practice of design and to develop awareness of lifelong learning. | X | |||||
ECTS
3