A survey on the system of education at the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture, 1956-1980

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2003

Author

Uysal, Yüksel Yeşim

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This thesis explores the system of architectural education in the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture between 1956 and 1980. The formation and the transformation of the system of architectural education in the school are investigated with references to the evolution of the social, political, economic and architectural context of Turkey in the period and the systems of architectural education applied in the country. The education in the Department of Architecture not only formed its system according to the Bauhaus program as applied in the postwar American context, but also transformed it with changing architectural theory and the design methodology. Both the school's system of architectural education and the institutional identity established by the school provided significant contributions to the institutionalization of architectural education in Turkey. Besides, in the following decades, the school's system of education became basic model for other institutions in the country in re-structuring their systems. In this respect, by focusing on the M.E.T.U. Department of Architecture's system of architectural education, this study aims to be a history of the Middle East Technical University and the social, political, economic and architectural context of the period as well.

Subject Keywords

Architecture, Modernization, Modern architecture, Middle East Technical University, Architectural education, Theory of architecture, Design methodology

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1223866/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13398

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis