Course Offerings:

Summer art history/architecture classes will be offered in two independent tracks with two units each. Each Archist unit will be centered on a selected architectural period, namely: Byzantine, Ottoman, Nineteenth Century, and Contemporary. Istanbul Interiors will be divided intot wo units: Sacred Interiors and Converted Spaces.

The Social Science ccourse descriptions will follow soon.

Classes will be comprised of lectures given at the Besiktas campus of Bahcesehir University and site visits. Offering the ultimate form of "immersion," the latter will allow students to contextualize the material taught in class.

ARCHIST -

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
3 Credits
This course will trace the transformation of a pagan settlement into a Christian megalopolis.  Emphasis is on physical remnants of the Byzantine Empire.

OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE 
3 Credits
This course will study the history of Ottoman architecture, including a field trip to Bursa and/or Edirne, former capitals of the Ottoman Empire.

NINETEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
3 Credits
This course will examine Istanbul's transformation into a modern urban environment, and its culmination in the early Twentieh ^century with the First National style, advocating the use of Ottoman forms as an alternative to revivalist styles imported from the west.

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
3 Credits
This course investigates the First and Second National styles, and will study the emergent themes in the field of historic preservation, such as the protection of minority heritage sites, prevention of gentrification, and uses of social equity.

ISTANBUL INTERIORS--

SACRED INTERIORS
3 credits
This unit includes the analysis of major religious buildings, building complexes and related structures belonging to the three main creeds represented in Istanbul -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism.  The city's rich heritage of religious architecture includes countless examples of churches, mosques from all epochs, as well as the finest synagogues.  Emphasis will be on interior design concerns such spatial proportions, light, surface treatment, roofing choice, color and texture.

CONVERTED SPACES
3 credits
Functional lives of buildings are shorter than their physical and cultural lives.  Obsolete and derelict buildings, after conversion and rennovation, may be successfully turned into masterpieces for present-day modes of utilization.  This unit addresses spatial conversion of buildings within the domain of interior design.

SOCIAL SCIENCE --

Courses to be announced shortly