Course Code : ARC 601
Course Title : METHODOLOY AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONDUCTING A SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Compulsory
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Exploration of quantitative and qualitative research methods commonly used in Architectural
studies.
This is an introductory course on research methods. The objectives of the course is to enable
students to:
♦ Develop an understanding and an appreciation of the quantitative and qualitative research
methods relevant to satisfactorily address a particular research question.
♦ Develop an understanding of the principles and processes involved in developing and
addressing a specific research question.
♦ Develop core competencies in writing a research proposal.
♦ Develop a solid background in elementary statistics and data analysis.
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Problem identification
Hypothesis formulation
Sampling
Research design
Data collection and data collection strategies
Validity, reliability and other measurement problems
Data evaluation techniques and methods applied in management research
Qualitative data analysis
Non-parametric data analysis
Factor analysis
Research deontology
Applications.
Course Code : ARC 602
Course Title : Management and Organization
Level : PhD
Year :
Status :Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The management of construction projects requires knowledge of modern management as well as
an understanding of the design and construction process. Construction projects have a specific
set of objectives and constraints such as a required time frame for completion.
Project management is the art of directing and coordinating human and material resources
throughout the life of a project by using modern management techniques to achieve
predetermined objectives of scope, cost, time, quality and participation satisfaction.
Specifically, project management in construction encompasses a set of objectives which may be
accomplished by implementing a series of operations subject to resource constraints. There are
potential conflicts between the stated objectives with regard to scope, cost, time and quality, and
the constraints imposed on human material and financial resources.
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Main definitions
Trends in modern management
Strategic planning and project programming
Effects of project risks on organization
Organization of project participants
Professional project management
Leadership and motivation for project team
Course Code : ARC 603
Course Title : Quantitative decision making techniques in Construction management
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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Course Code : ARC 604
Course Title : Cost management in Construction
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Taking this approach to cost management will help a company determine whether they accurately
estimated expenses at first, and will help them more closely predict expenses in the future.
Starting a project with cost management in mind will help to avoid certain pitfalls that may be
present otherwise.
This course offers an introduction to construction cost management. Defines the construction
process and their costs, and the strategies of handling (managing) the costs.
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Course Code : ARC 605
Course Title : Construction Economics
Level : PhD
Year :
Status :Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Purpose of this course to provide an introduction to those aspects of building that can help
students of architecture become more aware of the economic concerns of other parties in the
building process and more capable of responding constructively to these concerns in their design
decisions.
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The importance of building economics
The initial cost of building projects
The basic concept of cost estimating
Estimating methods for building cost financing construction projects
The future performance of buildings
Benefits and value of buildings
Relating building costs to benefits
Financial feasibility analysis for building projects
Course Code : ARC 606
Course Title : Information systems in Construction Projects Management
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Purpose of this course is to introduce the contemporary tools and approaches for information
handling in construction industry, to use the newly discovered IT programs and methods for the
construction projects and for construction management.
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The outline of the course is given below:
• Basic concepts, components of IS/IT; Development process of IS/IT by eras and their
characteristics,
• Contemporary architectures for software development: Centralized, two-tiered and Web-based,
three-tiered software architectures,
• The concept of System Modeling, Modeling languages for information systems: UML,
EXPRESS, EXPRESS-G, IDEF0, etc.; Types of models: Product models, Process
Models, Project Models – Reference models, Application models
• Efforts for the standardization of the information in Project and Construction
Management area (ISO-STEP, AIA)
• Information requirements of construction professionals and current level of IS/IT support
worldwide, Web-based information systems in construction project management
• Integrated Information Systems in construction industry, Reference and Application Models
developed for construction industry: COMBINE, COMMIT, ICON, SPACE, OSCON,
IRMA, etc.,
• Components of an Information System: Data Processing Systems DPS, Management
Information Systems MIS, Office Automation Systems OAS, Expert Systems ES,
Decision Support Systems DSS.
• Databases: Architectures of Database, Relational Database, Components of relational database.
• System Analysis and Model Development: Definition of the content of term projects, system
Analysis and model development.
Course Code : ARC 607
Course Title : Research methodology in Construction
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
A discipline or profession is established by developing a body of knowledge wich is unique – that
body of knowledge is produced through research. Construction draws on a wide variety of
established subjects, including natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and management,
and applies them to its particular context and requirements. Only by use of appropriate
methodologies and methods of research, applied with rigors , can the body of knowledge for
construction be established and advanced with confidence.
This course will be divided into four parts :
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Producing a proposal
Executing the Research
Reporting the results
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Introduction
Topic of study
Initial research
Approaches to Empirical work
Hypotheses
Data collection
Data analysis
Ethics in research
Results, inferences and conclusions
Reports and presentations
Course Code : ARC 608
Course Title : Performance of Building Elements under Environmental Effects
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
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Course Code : ARC 609
Course Title : Sound and Vibration Control
Level : PhD
Year :
Status :Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
People are adversely affected by both noise and vibration and, if sufficiently intense, both noise
and vibration can permanently hurt people. Also, structural systems, if excited by excessive noise
and vibration over sufficient periods of time, can fatigue and fail. So to reduce and prevent such
effects, there are a lot of methods that was discovered before and other new technologies that is
used. In this course, these methods will be presented.
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Fundamentals of acoustics and noise
Fundamentals of vibration
Human hearing and speech
Effects of noise, blast, vibration, and shock on people
Noise and vibration transducers, analysis equipment, signal processing and measuring
techniques,
Principles of noise and vibration control and quiet machinery design,
Industrial and machine element noise and vibration sources – prediction and control,
Transportation noise and vibration – sources, prediction and control,
Interior transportation noise and vibration sources – prediction and control,
Noise and vibration control in buildings,
Course Code : ARC 610
Course Title : Solar Architecture
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The solar energy can be used as a modern approach for gaining energy for everyday needs, such
as for heating and lightning. A lot of solar systems have been created and invited in the last
several years. Using that kind of energy can reduce the expanses for energy and to ensure an
ecological way for achieving our needs in everyday life. Passive and active systems that are used
for this purpose are very important for every architect or designer.
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The benefits of Solar energy,
Active systems of solar energy
Methods and approaches for gaining the solar energy,
Passive systems of solar energy,
Solar architecture in cool climates,
Solar housing,
Solar heating systems for housing
Course Code : ARC 611
Course Title : Composite Building materials and Design Principles
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Composite building materials are formed from two or more distinctly different materials. When
combined, the properties of the newly formed material are superior to those of the individual
components. The process of combining is a physical practice rather than a chemical one, so the
composite materials feature the combined properties of their ingredient materials.
Commonly used forms are fiber-reinforced plastics (fiberglass, thermoplastic composites,
thermoset composites, etc), metal matrix composites (white cast iron, hard metal and metalintermetallic laminate), ceramic matrix composites (cement, reinforced carbon-carbon, etc) and
engineered wood (plywood, oriented strand board, and pykrete).
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Introduction to building materials
Composite building materials – definition,
Composite building materials – types,
Composite building materials – the application,
Composite building materials – advantages and disadvantages,
Composite building materials – design principles,
Course Code : ARC 612
Course Title : Effects of Climate and Energy on Settlements design
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduction of climatic factors (solar radiation and wind) and natural or built environmental
characteristics which may modify the effects of these factors on the settlement, discussion of the
relationship between design variables for the buildings and open spaces constituting the
settlement and the energy consumption for bioclimatic comfort; consideration of the optimum
values for the design parameters which may be proposed.
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Course Code : ARC 613
Course Title : Sustainable urban development
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course Sustainable urban development offered understanding and mastering the problems of
sustainability, planning and urban development in accordance with the principles and criteria of
sustainability. Through the course students are trained to participate in professional activities of
urban planning, design of sustainable cities and other urban settlements.
Studies on the relationship of urban planning, urban design and planning in the context of
sustainability. Understanding the basic elements of planning documents, methods and work
processes in the context of sustainability.
Through the course students are expected to gain in‐depth knowledge of the various ideas that
inform the sustainability debate and to understand how these ideas are transformed into action
and real world solutions.
Likewise, students should develop a detailed understanding of how the opportunities
and constraints offered by different contexts results in the adaptation and redefinition of
sustainability as a continually developing .
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Understanding the basic questions of the role, scope and domain of sustainability.
Understanding the elements and content relationships to physical space planning in the context of
sustainability.
Gaining knowledge about sustainable development and sustainable city, as well as the ways and
methods to direct development in accordance with the doctrine of sustainability.
Gaining knowledge about the processes determining the purpose and construction of urban
location, relation to environment, lifestyle vijwku physical structures and their replacement,
changing the functional and physical structure of the village.
Gaining knowledge about the functional and spatial parameters.
Sustainability of the environment / social sustainability / viability of the settlements spatial;
Participants in the "sustainable game" - the interests and conflicts. Benefits and barriers;
Sustainable communities;
Sustainable city: features, benefits, barriers, form;
Sustainable urban design - criteria and standards of sustainability;
Urban renewal in the context of sustainable development
Course Code : ARC 614
Course Title : Landscape Design
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Landscape Design Fundamentals will provide students with the basic skills for graphical
representation of the landscape, including the development of site plan, section, elevation, and
perspective views. The course will encourage the exploration of sustainable landscape solutions
at the site scale based on the concept that a landscape designed for multiple functions
(ecological, economic, and social) will meet the needs of society, while minimizing the negative
impacts on the future environment.
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Course Code : ARC 615
Course Title : Theory, Process and Formal language in Architectural Design
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
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Course Code : ARC 616
Course Title : Discussion on Architectural Design Futures
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
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Introduction the new technologies and their impact on architectural design. How will the
development of IT affect designing methods. How to use the development of technologies in order
to create better systems of designing. The new features that are sonly expected in architecture.
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Augmented reality and tangible interfaces in collaborative urban design
Mutually augmented virtual environments for architectural design and collaboration
Conceptual modelling environment
Data visualization for educating creative design
Is a digital model worth a thousand pictures?
Course Code : ARC 617
Course Title : Informal Housing
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE CONTENTS
Informal housing and other unofficial settlements have an influence over development of cities.
This phenomenon is easily recognized from developing countries. Cities in developing countries
tend to spread widely around the center. The development of these settlements is exactly reverse
of what happens in the formal world: infrastructure comes last. Insecurity is the keyword that
affects housing as other aspects of living in informal sector.
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Introduction to informal housing
The major problems that are caused by informal housing
Threats which are expected to face the community caused by informal housing,
Infrastructure and informal housing
Course Code : ARC 618
Course Title : Logic models of Design
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Creating logical models for design purposes has a big importance in developing the designs.
Models of design can be very various and can be divided in several groups. Logic models can
help dividing these models and improve their function.
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Course Code : ARC 619
Course Title : Culture and space studies
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Cultural studies of space are found in many disciplines, where they serve a central function in
explanations. Space is a concept that is central to many different areas of study and has varied
meanings. Architectural space means subsets of the three-dimensional extension of the world
around us such that it is entered by man, includes definite material elements, especially bases,
which allow one to perceive its boundaries and is perceived as a whole, serves human functions
of habitation, shelter or circulation, and is intentionally built or appropriated by man to serve such
functions.
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Architectural space
Culture components
Life-cycle of space
Areas of culture studies of space
Nature of culture studies of space
Course Code : ARC 620
Course Title : Aesthetic phenomena in Architecture
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Architecture is considered a visual art like painting and sculpture. Architects design buildings
using a creative process by which they manipulate art elements to create a unified and pleasing
artistic statement. The difference between a painting and architecture is that a building has a
function and must be designed with safety in mind.
When architects start working on a project, they prepare quick sketches that suggest areas of
function dictated by the client. Next, architects use a process of design to draw, and then refine
the form of the new building. Understanding architectural design is simplified if you think of the
"façade" or face of the building as a painting. Then, you can use design language to talk about the
image you see.
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Introduction to aesthetics
The relation between aesthetics and architecture
Aesthetics position in architectural design
Expression as an aesthetic phenomena in architecture
Discussion on the positive and negative effects of aesthetics on architecture
Course Code : ARC 621
Course Title : Architecture and Theory
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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The course presents and explores the conceptual frameworks and theoretical systems that define
and inform architectural discourse and action in recent times.
The development of theoretical thought from Greek times to the present: Vitruvius, Alberti,
Perrault, Blondel, Ledoux, Boullée, Durand, Ruskin, Viollet le Duc, Schinkel, Semper, Wagner,
Sant'Elia, Muthesius, Van de Velde, CIAM, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Kahn, Venturi,
Eisenman, Derrida, Tschumi, Koolhaas, etc. the industrial revolution and modernism. The
contemporary moment in the context of the characterization of human consciousness and
architecture as a whole complex creations.
Examined the theories and approaches in selected contextual sense discussed architectural
examples and accompanying original texts.
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Architectural modernism - exceptions: Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn.
Crisis of the modern movement and Team X.
Alison and Peter Smithson, New brutalizam and UR (Urban Re-identification).
Aldo van Eyck: theory and foundations "carpet construction".
Aldo Rossi: architecture is of the "third typology" (Rossi, Argan, Vidler).
Colin Rowe: City-collage and design strategies contextualism.
Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss.
Roland Barthes, Robert Venturi: character, game, myth.
Peter Eisenman, the first phase: syntactically Systems and Architecture "degree zero".
Peter Eisenman, the second phase: the structuring of the object to textualisation.
Manfredo Tafuri and "Architecture in the boudoir".
Post-structuralism and deconstruction: Jacques Derrida, Bernard Tschumi.
Phenomenology: the meaning, place and body - Herzog & de Meuron and the recent Swiss
productions.
Rem Koolhaas and theoretical weft: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, rhizomatic structure and foldin.
Course Code : ARC 622
Course Title : 20th Century Architecture of the World
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The content of the course of modern and contemporary world architecture 20th century
architectural holdings placed 20th century in its social, cultural, technical and historical framework.
Explain the main directions of development of architectural creativity from the beginning of the
second industrial revolution to the reflection of the architecture in the phenomenon of
environmental sustainability at the turn of the 3rd millennium. The course provides insight into the
thoughts, aspirations and the credo of the protagonists of architectural creativity.
COURSE CONTENTS
Study materials are exhibited in the fold and synchronous diahronih section, generally
systematized in three broad areas of study, styles, directions, schools and architectural trends in
world architecture, national and regional approaches to the architecture of the metropolis to
autochthony term region, the authors and their works, and personality creative credo.
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Modern and contemporary 20th century world architecture
Classics and followers (from Wagner to the international style and Pritzker)
Movements, groups and styles
Pritzker
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New York: Ambience megapolis
New York museums and galleries
National Mall, Washington, D.C.
The architecture of the campus Ivy League Yale University, New Haven
Large Projects F.Mitteranda
Bulevard Peripherique La Villette, La Defense
culture Forums
The architecture of skyscrapers
Lord Norman Foster
Regional Culture: Bahrain, Abu Dhabi Masdar City, Vorarlberg
Course Code : ARC 623
Course Title : Problems of Conservation and Design in Urban Historic Sites
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE CONTENTS
Many problems in urban historic sites are facing the conservators and designers, problems such
as weather the historic site can be count as conservable or not, its influence on the urban
environmental, if it is worth conservation or not, and other problems. Those kind of problems will
be the topic of this course.
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Introduction to urban historic sites and their value
Valuation methods in theory of conservation
Interaction between conservation of historic sites and urban sites
Effects of conservation on the urban site
Problems of conservation and design in urban historic sites
Methodology of solving conservational problems
Course Code : ARC 624
Course Title : Industrial Archaeology
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
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The course examines the legacy of industrial buildings and industrial areas and other buildings
"technical culture" (terminals, markets, etc.) in order to affirm that category of architectural
heritage in the context of social and technical history as well as in urban and architectural context.
Most of the lecture is devoted to the issue of revitalization of wide area "monument to technical
culture."
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The problem of industrial heritage.
Programmatic review of course content, its definition and methodology.
Affirmation of an interdisciplinary approach
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Historical development of industrialization in the world with special reference to
theUnited Kingdom as the holder of the first industrial revolution
Buildings of technical culture.
Industrial heritage in the world.
Representative examples of building "technological culture", their preservation and
presentation. Revitalization of industrial heritage.
The objectives and principles of rehabilitation, revitalization methodology, socioeconomic aspects, the selection criteria for revitalization.
Industrial-archaeological parks.
Future World. Perspectives
Course Code : ARC 625
Course Title : Laboratory Training for Architectural Conservators
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Practical Training for Conservators in which they will explore the theory of conservation and the
methods of conservation.
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Course Code : ARC 626
Course Title : The Research of Historical architecture
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
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By researching the historical architecture, many benefits can be gained, such as the methods that
were used, analyzing the positive and negative from historical architecture can prevent repeating
the same mistakes in the future or can encourage the use of those methods nowadays.
Course Code : ARC 627
Course Title : Methodology of conducting conservation and restoration projects
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
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Course Code : ARC 628
Course Title : Stone in Architecture and architectural conservation
Level : PhD
Year :
Status : Elective
Hours/Week : 3
Semester :
ECTS Credits : 7.5
Total Hours : 45
Instructor :
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE CONTENTS
Since prehistoric age men used stone for its unique durability to erect monuments of
extraordinary, mostly religious importance. Due to lacking transportation facilities until the 19 th
century stones from nearby sources had to be chosen to build churches, castles and towns. Only
for exceptional cases rare and decorative stones like marble were transported over long distances
when stone of the same color and beauty was not available in the near vicinity. Stone plays one of
the major parts in architecture since the beginning. Many historical objects were made from stone.
All of that made stone one of the most important topics for study in architecture.
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Natural stone in architecture
Building stones
Physical and mechanical properties of rocks
Weathering and deterioration
Environmental and architectural stone
Characterisation of stone deterioration on buildings
Stone conservation