Course Information

Course Code:
Course Number:
Code Course Name Language Type
MIM 221 History of Turkish Architecture Turkish Compulsory
Local Credits ECTS Theoretical Tutorial Laboratory
2 3 2 0 0
Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction
Prerequisites MIM 122 MIN DD
or MIM 122E MIN DD
Class Restriction None
Course Description
The course examines the pre-Islamic Turkish architecture in Asia, Uighur, Karakhanid, Ghaznevid, Seljuk architecture, and the origins of the Anatolian Turkish architecture. It focuses on characteristics of space, mass, façade and structure design and form language of the Early Anatolian emirates, Anatolian Seljuks, 14th-c. emirates and Ottoman architecture until the end of the 17th-c. with various examples of building types; such as mosques, madrasas, hospitals, tombs, caravanserais, palaces and building complexes.