Derin Inan
A.Derin İnan is an architect graduated from Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul and received her MA at METU, Ankara in 2001. She has completed the PhD programme in the Histories and Theories of Architecture in AA, Architectural Association, London. She taught 1st and 4th year design studios between the years 2005-2006 in the department of architecture in Anadolu University, Eskişehir. She has worked as a part time instructor in the 1st year design studio at METU, Ankara between 2006-2012. She has also worked as an editor in the publications and exhibitions department of the Chamber of Architects between the years 2005-2008. She has worked as a researcher and a coordinator of the Commemoration Programme, a research project conducted by the Chamber of Architects, between 2006-2014. She currently works in TED University, Department of Architecture, as an assistant professor since 2012.Her main research interests focus on architectural theory, architectural representations, design basics and design education.
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The scale as a topic also rarely finds its deserved attention in architectural education. The potentials the issue can provide are much diverse and therefore deserve to be regarded as a fundamental subject guiding the experience of design studios in architecture schools. In the light of these concerns a series of studies were conducted at different years of architectural design studios, where the issue of scale is regarded as the main framework for searching the formation of architectural space and students’ modes of operation with architectural space. The paper, which will present studio exercises from different years, formulated around the problem of understanding and evaluating on the idea of scale, discuss the instrumentality of scale as a tool for developing spatial strategies.
The paper will also comment on the diverse contributions of the issue to the general structure of each design studio alone. Its spatial associations will be discussed through the prominent keywords like ‘Scales of Contact’, ‘Scalability’ and ‘Correlative Scales’ as appeared in different years of the studio exercises, within their particular priorities, subjects and concerns. So the paper will not only try to trigger a discussion for understanding the idea of scale as an operative tool for design thinking in general, but will also try to discuss the ways and which it can be utilised as an inclusive and yet stimulating strategy for architectural studies.
reality stemming from the intensive interferences between architectural research and architectural projects and, as
commonly argued, the reliance of both on new tools and techniques. The paper is a survey of the present conditions, aiming to construct a way to address this topic and develop a probable understanding of it. So, more than the issue of PhD by Design itself, it’s more about
how to address it. Therefore we focus on two issues which we propose as a way to analyse and frame this theme, the
first being the specific ‘architecturality’ of this kind of research, and the second the issue of its evaluation-judgment
as a ‘PhD’.
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The scale as a topic also rarely finds its deserved attention in architectural education. The potentials the issue can provide are much diverse and therefore deserve to be regarded as a fundamental subject guiding the experience of design studios in architecture schools. In the light of these concerns a series of studies were conducted at different years of architectural design studios, where the issue of scale is regarded as the main framework for searching the formation of architectural space and students’ modes of operation with architectural space. The paper, which will present studio exercises from different years, formulated around the problem of understanding and evaluating on the idea of scale, discuss the instrumentality of scale as a tool for developing spatial strategies.
The paper will also comment on the diverse contributions of the issue to the general structure of each design studio alone. Its spatial associations will be discussed through the prominent keywords like ‘Scales of Contact’, ‘Scalability’ and ‘Correlative Scales’ as appeared in different years of the studio exercises, within their particular priorities, subjects and concerns. So the paper will not only try to trigger a discussion for understanding the idea of scale as an operative tool for design thinking in general, but will also try to discuss the ways and which it can be utilised as an inclusive and yet stimulating strategy for architectural studies.
reality stemming from the intensive interferences between architectural research and architectural projects and, as
commonly argued, the reliance of both on new tools and techniques. The paper is a survey of the present conditions, aiming to construct a way to address this topic and develop a probable understanding of it. So, more than the issue of PhD by Design itself, it’s more about
how to address it. Therefore we focus on two issues which we propose as a way to analyse and frame this theme, the
first being the specific ‘architecturality’ of this kind of research, and the second the issue of its evaluation-judgment
as a ‘PhD’.