Architecture Summer Internships

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The "Arch 190 Summer Practice in Building Construction and Surveying", which is held at the end of the first year of the METU Department of Architecture Undergraduate Program, is an internship organized and conducted by the department for all students. The internship involves the construction of a small-scale structure from foundation to roof in a rural area during the summer months. This method was previously applied between 1958 and 1974 within the scope of the "Arch 290" summer internship, and nearly 20 buildings were constructed by the second-year students of the Department of Architecture under the supervision of the faculty members in various parts of Anatolia, which were handed over to the use of the local people. After a long break, in the summer of 1997, the first-year students of the Department of Architecture carried out restoration survey studies of old buildings in Cumalıkızık, Bursa as the Arch 190 internship. The tradition of building small-scale structures in rural areas, which dates back to the early years of the Department of Architecture, resumed in the summer of 1999. This summer internship model, which was initiated in 1958 following the establishment of the Department of Architecture at METU in 1956, can have a multifaceted function, such as providing young academic architects with the opportunity to realize important architectural ideas in a small and simple-function structure; directly introducing students who are "at the beginning of their architectural education" to construction materials and the act of construction; introducing them to our citizens in rural areas, which still host a large proportion of the population of Turkey, and providing them with a physical structure of public value, albeit small. A small structure that will benefit schools in central villages (for example, a computer workshop, within the framework of the importance of communication in education) seems meaningful as a theme that can continue.

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