Photograph as an architectural document : a visual archive for METU Campus

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Akyol, Melike

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This thesis aims at providing a pragmatic and conceptual basis essential for the establishment of an architectural photography archive for METU. The goal is to propose a methodology regarding the formation of an archive, which is physically and intellectually “accessible,” and to inquire future possibilities for its extension. The conceptual framework will be established by focusing on two main topics: theories of art, specifically focusing on photograph as a visual document, and architectural history writing, focusing on the term “archive.” Photograph as a visual document will be investigated by giving emphasis to its role as a historical evidence. The definition of the term “archive” given by Michel Foucault will be located in a key position for the construction of a discourse on documentation and historiography. The pragmatic framework will be established by taking as a reference the methodology used by the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The content and the scope subsumed under the RIBA archives show similarity to those of a possible proposal for an archive for METU. Current GISAM archives, which consist of METU campus photographs, will be taken as the primary source.

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Architecture and photography., Architectural photography., Architecture, Photographs

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614752/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22165

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M. Akyol, “ Photograph as an architectural document : a visual archive for METU Campus,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2012.