Integrating Sustainability with the Master of Architecture Program: Comparative Analysis of Foreign and Turkey Samples

Abstract

Many universities around the world are changing or supporting their curriculum and methods with the necessary up-to-date information to ensure that candidates who aim to graduate from their architectural programs are taught the concept of sustainability at a sufficient level in regard to conceptual and theoretical. Meeting the requirements of the sustainability paradigm in design and building technologies will extend beyond the awareness created at the undergraduate level and improve with postgraduate education. Thus, a sufficient level of professional knowledge and expertise will be achieved. Since this field is still not sufficiently experienced in practice, it is clear that a system is needed to provide the works and knowledge to make up the said deficiency with the architectural education process. Scope of study, an examination of the structures of postgraduate programs of institutions located in Turkey and institutions that operate in various parts of the world who have managed to adapt the subject of sustainability to their curricula to a large degree has been carried out. By comparing the current curriculum with examples from the world, the general status was determined, and recommendations were made on what kind of updates can be made. The objective is to improve existing curricula by taking the information obtained from global examples as a reference for improving the awareness and development levels of graduate students who desire to specialize in sustainable architecture and environmental design.

Keywords

• Sustainability
• Sustainable architecture
• Postgraduate architectural education

Sürdürülebilirliğin Mimarlık Yüksek Lisans Programı ile Bütünleştirilmesi: Yurt Dışı ve Türkiye Örneklerinin Karşılaştırmalı Analizi

Öz

Dünyanın dört bir yanındaki birçok üniversite, mimarlık programlarından mezun olacak adayları için, sürdürülebilirlik olgusunun kavramsal ve teorik açıdan yeterli düzeyde verilmesi amacıyla öğretim programlarını ve yöntemlerini, gerekli güncel bilgilerle değiştirmekte veya desteklemektedir. Tasarım ve bina teknolojilerinde sürdürülebilirlik paradigmasının gereksinimlerini karşılamak, lisans düzeyinde yaratılan farkındalığın ötesinde lisansüstü eğitimle gelişim gösterecek, yeterli mesleki bilgi ve uzmanlık sağlayacaktır. Bu alan, uygulamada halen yeterli düzeyde deneyimlenemediği için, mimari eğitim süreci ile söz konusu eksikliğin giderilmesine yönelik çalışmaların ve bilgi birikiminin verilmesini sağlayacak bir sisteme ihtiyaç olduğu açıktır. Çalışma kapsamında, farklı yaklaşımlar kullanılarak sürdürülebilirlik konularını müfredatlarına adapte etmeyi büyük oranda başarabilmiş, dünyanın farklı yerlerinde faaliyet gösteren mimarlık eğitim kurumlarının ve Türkiye’de yer alan mimarlık eğitim kurumlarının yüksek lisans düzeyindeki müfredat yapıları incelenmiştir. Hali hazırda uygulanmakta olan müfredatı, dünya örnekleri ile karşılaştırarak durum tespiti yapılmış ve ne tür güncellemeler yapılabileceği konusunda öneriler sunulmuştur. Amaç, sürdürülebilir mimarlık ve çevresel tasarım alanında uzmanlaşmak isteyen lisansüstü öğrencilerinin farkındalıklarını ve gelişim düzeylerini arttırmak için dünya örneklerinden edinilen bilgileri referans alarak, uygulanmakta olan müfredatın geliştirilmesidir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sürdürülebilirlik
• Sürdürülebilir mimarlık
• Lisansüstü mimarlık eğitimi

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