Taptık – ARC 413 – Syllabus – Updated November 15, 2018

ARC 413 – Fall, 2018-2019

Photography and Architecture

Ali Taptık
taptika@mef.edu.tr

The course offers an introduction to essential photographic concepts and techniques.

In addition, the relationship between photography and architecture will be examined
through historical and contemporary examples, while discussions on the interaction
of these two practices will remain as the primary goal.
For a practice-based learning process, each student (or group of students) will be
choosing a different building or an urban area to be re-discovered / explored using
advances in photography. At the end of the semester, each student is expected to
design a small printed matter which will present the research to share it with
colleagues.
Week01 27.09.2018 Introduction expics
What is Photography / Medium / Visual Narratives?
Week02 04.10.2018 Introduction of Essential Concepts, Techniques and Tools 5prints
TIME: The effects Shutter Speed
Week03 11.10.2018 Architecture and Photography: 19th Century and before 5prints
SPACE: Aperture
Week04 18.10.2018 Modern Architecture and Photography 5prints
DEPTH: Focal Length
Week05 25.10.2018 Film Screening: Visual Acoustics – Life of Julius Schulman 5prints

Week06 01.11.2018 Questions & Clarifications & Quiz 5prints

Week07 08.11.2018 WORKSHOP WEEK MIDTERM

COLOR: Introduction to Theories and Models of Color
Week08 15.11.2018 From Las Vegas to Rochester – New Topographics Final10
SOURCE: Characteristics of Digital / Analog Recording Media,
Week09 22.11.2018 Photographic Manipulation Final10
Final10
Week10 29.11.2018 Printed Matter Project – Image Production Design Dummy

Week11 06.12.2018 Printed Matter Project – Image Production / Selection Final10

Week12 13.12.2018 Printed Matter Project – Book Design Final10

Final10
Week13 20.12.2018 Final Second Dummy
 Taptık – ARC 413 – Syllabus – Updated November 15, 2018

SOURCES

O’Grady, T. (2005). “The Decisive Moment”: The Metronome All-Stars, 1949. The Journal of
American Culture, 28(4), 377–389.
Peres, M. R. (Ed.). (2007). The Focal encyclopedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and
applications history and science (4th ed). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Schwarzer, M. (2004). Zoomscape: architecture in motion and media ([1st ed). New York: Princeton
Architectural Press.
Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., & Izenour, S. (2000). Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism
of architectural form (17th print). Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
Wells, L. (Ed.). (2009). The photography reader (Reprint). London: Routledge.
Required readings for weekly discussions will be posted on Blackboard.

ASSIGNMENTS

expics: Exhibition pictures – Shoot an exhibition: 5 pictures, 10x15 cm Prints

5prints: 5 prints on themes, discussed on the previous week
final10: prints of images produced for the final assignment.
dummy: A model of the book for production

MIDTERM

A Project Proposal: A Short Research stating your interests and

initial research on the area you want to focus for the final project.
Min 300 Max 500 Words, Sources, Images

FINAL

A minimum 16-page Printed Matter , details to be discussed in class.

NOTES

Keep all the digital files of the images you created, you will need to upload them to a Dropbox folder
for the final.
Please notify me if you don’t have an access to a digital camera. We will find a solution.
Don’t hesitate to e-mail me for any questions, comments. Please don’t contact me through social
media or my phone.