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KAC5023 | Women Designers and Their Desing Approaches | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | Second Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sema MUMCU | Co-Lecturer | | Language of instruction | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | To reveal the struggle of women and the difficulties they face in spatial design disciplines, to discuss especially female designers and their approaches in landscape architecture and architecture professions, to understand the innovations and differences bring forward by female designers in the context of landscape architecture and architecture |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | learn famous female designers and understand their design approcahes. | 6,9 | 5,6, | PO - 2 : | discuss new approaches to spatial design that are developed by female designers. | 6,9 | 3,5, | PO - 3 : | generate ideas about achieving women-men equity in spatial design disciplines. | 6,9 | 5,6, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | |
male domination in spatial design professions and reasons, female-male, home-city, nature-building dualism in the context of gender roles, women and design thinking and women's struggle to gain a place in the architectural profession, famous women landscape architects and architects; their works and design approaches |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Introduction, information about main concepts and and process of the course | | Week 2 | Male domination in spatial design professions, dichotomization of woman-man, house-city, nature-building in context of gender roles. | | Week 3 | Women and disegn thinking, the struggle of women designers to gain a place in architecture discipline. | | Week 4 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Beaxrix Farrand, Ellen Shipman | | Week 5 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Carol Johnson, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, | | Week 6 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Andrea Cochran, Mia Lehrer | | Week 7 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Pamela Burton, Katrhryn Gustafson | | Week 8 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Isabelle Greene, Katherine Spitz | | Week 9 | Exam week | | Week 10 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Martha Schwartz, Gertrude Jekyll | | Week 11 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Jennie Bethune, Natalie de Blois, | | Week 12 | Famous female landscape architects and achitects; their design and design appracahes: Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima, Marilyn Jordan Taylor | | Week 13 | Assesment of approaches and differences | | Week 14 | Student presentation | | Week 15 | final week | | Week 16 | final week | | |
1 | Adams, A., & Tancred, P. 2000. 'Designing women' : Gender and the architectural profession. | | |
1 | Lewis, A.2014. Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers, Chicago Review Press. | | 2 | Borden, I., Penner, B., & Rendell, J. (Eds.). 1999. Gender space architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction. | | 3 | Deitz, P. 2010. Of gardens : Selected essays. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Presentation | 15 | | 1,00 | 50 | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 9 12 | | 1,00 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 13 | 39 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 13 | 65 | Ödev | 8 | 4 | 32 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 4 | 40 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | Total work load | | | 177 |
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