Faculty of Architecture SUMMER SCHOOL 2013

Faculty of Architecture Summer School is organized in collaboration with Pratt Institute (New York). Courses will be held at santralistanbul Campus of İstanbul Bilgi University.

1. DESIGN STUDIO  

ARCH 303 “Computation - Vision - Interaction“
ŞEBNEM YALINAY ÇİNİCİ, ONUR YÜCE GÜN / 7 Weeks (8 July – 23 August) / 16 hours per week / 8 credits
Click for ARCH 303 course description .

2. SEMINARS  

ARCH 455 “İstanbul: from Imperial Capital to Global City”
SİBEL BOZDOĞAN / 7 Weeks (8 July – 23 August) / 6 hours per week / 3 credits
Click for ARCH 455 course description.

ARCH 485 “Informing Design Form”
ONUR YÜCE GÜN, ŞEBNEM YALINAY ÇİNİCİ / 7 Weeks (8 July – 23 August) / 6 hours per week / 3 credits
Click for ARCH 485 course description.

3. WORKSHOP 

“Photography of Architecture and Landscape” 
ERIETA ATTALI / 2 Weeks (8 – 19 July) / 10 hours per week / non-credit

(Workshop will be opened with a minimum number of 20 students.)

Architectural photography as a tool for understanding the creator - the architect -'s ideas and intentions, and can provide us with insights into a building's meaning. During this workshop, students will explore the medium of architectural photography as a critical tool for analyzing and representing buildings. To understand the intent behind design processes by contextualizing and framing the relationship between an architect and his/her work, photography is used not only as documentary evidence, but also as a stimulant for the critical mind. As soon-to-be architects, they will also learn what to expect and what to desire from the documentation of buildings they might design in the future. Each class is led as an open critique tailored to individual strengths and interests of the students, with work produced each class for review. The work of past and contemporary landscape and architectural photographers will be discussed and incorporated as a source of examples and talent for inspiration. With a portfolio of images, each student forms a body of work that is an expression of his/her individual photographic vision as developed throughout the course.

For the list of courses that will be offered by Pratt Institute and the registration procedure: http://www.pratt.edu

APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION:

For İstanbul Bilgi University students:
• After you make the payment for the course(s) between June 25-28, 2013 you can make your registration by choosing your courses listed under “Courses” title. During these dates, you can add/drop courses you registered for.
• Advisor or Faculty Board approval is not required to register for up to 3 courses. However, you need the approval of your advisor to register for more than 3 courses.  
• On July 3, 2013 the final list of courses to be offered by the Faculty of Architecture Summer School will be declared. You can add and drop courses from the final list on “Student Pages” between 3rd and 5th of July. Refund for dropped courses is available at the Student Finance Services.  

2013 Summer School Financial Calendar:
June 25-28, 2013: Registration Period
Until July 5, 2013: Withdrawal from course (With full refund)
After July 5, 2013: No refunds

For students of other universities who will apply to BİLGİ Summer School :
• The list of courses to be offered in 2012-2013 academic year Faculty of Architecture Summer School is available under “Courses” title.
• Financial registration should be completed between June 25-28. Students who deliver payments should apply to Student Affairs until June 28, 2013 with the following documents:
- A request letter for the courses to be registered
- Transcript 

June 25-28        Registration period   
July 3                   Announcement of the open courses 
July 3-5               Withdrawal period *  (refund available)
July 8                  Summer School begins
August  9             Deadline for the withdrawal (refund not available)**
August 23            End of classes
August 24-27     Final Exams
August 29            Announcement of grades                    

* - Course selection period.  Also, add-drop is available. 
- Full refund is available if the course does not open.
- Full refund is available if the student drops the course for a “pass” grade.
- Full refund is available if course hours conflict.
** Refund is not available.

Educational Facilities:
Computer Lab (25 students), CNC Machine + Lasercutter provided by the University
Personal laptop computers, cameras etc. should be brought as well

Accommodation:
Republika Academic Aparts (Ortakoy) : Accommodation + breakfast (18 Euro + Tax / day)
Note: Students have to make their own reservations, because of the limited rooms at the Republika Academic Aparts.
Republika Academic Aparts web site: http://www.republika.com.tr/

Transportation:
Shuttle busses from Ortakoy (7-8 Euro / day)
(Busses will be in service if applying students are in sufficient number.)

Shuttle buses of İstanbul Bilgi University (free) + public transport 
Click for BİLGİ shuttle times.

For BİLGİ/Laureate students:
Seminars: 1,782 TL
Design Studios: 4,250 TL
Workshop: 1,000 TL

For international students:
Seminars: $ 2,000
Design Studios: $ 3,000
Workshop: $ 1,000

Bank account (for all foreign students):
Bank: Garanti Bankası / Branch: Çağlayan / Branch code: 403
Account no: 9004604 /IBAN: TR63 0006 2000 4030 0009 0046 04 / Swift: GBATRISXXX

CONTACT: 
Faculty of Architecture: +90 (212) 311 76 10

INSTRUCTORS’ CVs

ERIETA ATTALI
Attali began her photographic career in 1993 as a landscape and archeology photographer. For over ten years she photographed extensively excavation sites and archeological findings specializing in the documentation of ancient painting in under earth tombs with the use of UV and IR radiation. During this period, Attali worked in various museums in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and UK. Her corps of archeological work includes thousands of photographs, produced for scientific documentation and archaeological publications. In parallel with her past work as an archeology photographer, she photographed landscapes in different parts of the world. Her pictures have been published and exhibited internationally. Since 2003 she has been an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Photography at the Department of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, NY  and she has also worked as a visiting professor in several Universities such The Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, The Catholic University in Santiago de Chile, Architectural Association in London amongst others. Her work has been supported by prestigious institutions, such as Fulbright, Japan Foundation, Graham Foundation, Dreyer’s Foundation, Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen, Danish Arts Council, culminating to numerous exhibitions and publications. During the past 14 years, Attali has been preoccupied primarily with architectural photography, both as a profession and as a fine-art photographer using architecture. Her architectural work expands from Europe to Americas and Asia where she undertakes professional commissions to document newly-constructed buildings of notable architectural quality.

SİBEL BOZDOĞAN
Sibel Bozdogan, Lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University since 2000, holds a professional degree in architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1976) and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (1983). She has taught architectural history and theory courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MIT and Istanbul Bilgi University where she is an Affiliated Professor since 2007. She has researched and published extensively on trans-national histories of modern architecture and urbanism with a specific focus on Turkey, including the interdisciplinary volume Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey co-edited with Resat Kasaba (1997); Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (2001) which received the 2002 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Koprulu Book Prize of the Turkish Studies Association; and Turkey: Modern Architectures in History co-authored with Esra Akcan for a multi-volume series by Reaktion Books (2012).

ONUR YÜCE GÜN
Onur is an architect and design and computation specialist. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in the Computation Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Presidential Fellow. He also holds a SMArchS Computation Degree from MIT (2006) and a B.Arch. from METU (2004) as top of the class. Onur instituted specialized work groups both in practice and in the academia. He initiated and directed the Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates New York Computational Geometry Group (2006-2009) and took role in initiation of the Pratt Institute Digital Futures Group. He instituted and coordinated the first year design and geometry courses during the emergence of undergraduate programs at the Istanbul Bilgi University, School of Architecture (2009-2011). Onur’s research got published in numerous conferences. He won young researcher awards in eCAADe and CAADRIA. Some of his work has been exhibited in Center for Architecture: AIA New York Chapter (2009), at SIGGRAPH 2008 at Los Angeles, at Tokyo Gallery A4 (2006) and several other cities around the world. Onur has been an internationally invited lecturer and educator.  Onur acted as Senior Tutor during expansion of the Smart Geometry Group (2005-2009) in New York, Munich and San Francisco. He conducted many international workshops around US, Europe, and South America. He has been an invited design critic at Harvard, Columbia University, UPenn, RISD, and UIC. Onur is a fluent tool-maker, has expertise in computational geometry, non-standard building and fabrication technologies, and photo realistic visualization. His current research focuses on vision, computation and human computer interaction.