The closed Mediterranean area has allowed the generation of an area of relationship among cultures, where over the centuries exchanges have occured, resulting in political, geographical, social and cultural entities with a clear identity from a global perspective.
These identities are very precisely expressed through the geopolitical organization of space, but viewed as a whole or dealt with in detail, they all show a common identity that come from shared stratification of experiences and permanent transit between the various banks.
This transit is part of the nature of the Mediterranean area, whose content, therefore, could be called transitive. Transit of peoples who colonized and dominated it. Transit, from bank to bank, of trade and cultural exchange. And an articulation of transit with Asia (Anatolia) and America (Iberia)
But also transit from the global culture of the immediate past to a new culture that the current paradigm change is announcing.
A connection between such diverse frameworks, it has also been a place of conflict, a word to be considered not only in its negative sense, but also in its more experimental meaning, as a space for debate and recognition of the differences as well as the links.
It is also where all scales of human activity, and therefore of architecture, are manifested. From the habitats more closely linked to its exceptional natural environment to the most sophisticated urban demonstrations, resulting from the wealth it stores. From fascinating vernacular structures, to indigenous construction procedures that characterize the landscape and its cities. From products of profound historical condition, to committed experiences on the current technological frontiers.
In this area we will try to materialize certain aspects of its precise and complex reality, using the resources of architecture as the best means of demonstrating and synthesizing such multifaceted environment. To facilitate the materialization of the proposals, we will focus on the relationship between the two extreme spaces of the east-west vector: the Anatolian and Iberian peninsulas. These two platforms have decisively contributed to the ultimate reality of the Mediterranean. They have provided support to the relationship of this space with other continents. And they share, albeit to varying degrees, several common features that, within the overall framework of similarities of all territories in the area, make them particularly comparable.
Their geography is similarly a set of large "empty" spaces and strong and symbolic mountain formations. Their population densities are low and its inhabitants are concentrated in urban areas. Even when they have strong relationships with the sea, they contain by contrast powerful areas outside it. They have no history of direct confrontations between each other on their own territories, although they engaged political and religious clashes settled on areas outside. Their cultures are related very directly to the "land" understood in both the spatial and material senses of the term. Both have defined their cultural reality on powerful religions, antagonistic in the past and in the process of approximation, understanding and cooperation in the present moment. They both have generated intermediate scale countries that still have great potential and, therefore, offer an array of opportunities for experimentation and development.
The course involves two quarterly periods, each developing architectural and spatial experiences in either geographical locations, of varying scale and programmatic status in each group, combining urban and rural areas, demonstrating the strength of the transverse vector established by the two realities, and its potential in terms of project.
An additional target is to share this experience with Turkish universities, so that, in alternating locations, simultaneous groups with complementary backgrounds may join the program. This will allow a final exchange in which the Mediterranean tradition of shared cultures manifests itself in an adequate exchange of experience on common areas.
These identities are very precisely expressed through the geopolitical organization of space, but viewed as a whole or dealt with in detail, they all show a common identity that come from shared stratification of experiences and permanent transit between the various banks.
This transit is part of the nature of the Mediterranean area, whose content, therefore, could be called transitive. Transit of peoples who colonized and dominated it. Transit, from bank to bank, of trade and cultural exchange. And an articulation of transit with Asia (Anatolia) and America (Iberia)
But also transit from the global culture of the immediate past to a new culture that the current paradigm change is announcing.
A connection between such diverse frameworks, it has also been a place of conflict, a word to be considered not only in its negative sense, but also in its more experimental meaning, as a space for debate and recognition of the differences as well as the links.
It is also where all scales of human activity, and therefore of architecture, are manifested. From the habitats more closely linked to its exceptional natural environment to the most sophisticated urban demonstrations, resulting from the wealth it stores. From fascinating vernacular structures, to indigenous construction procedures that characterize the landscape and its cities. From products of profound historical condition, to committed experiences on the current technological frontiers.
In this area we will try to materialize certain aspects of its precise and complex reality, using the resources of architecture as the best means of demonstrating and synthesizing such multifaceted environment. To facilitate the materialization of the proposals, we will focus on the relationship between the two extreme spaces of the east-west vector: the Anatolian and Iberian peninsulas. These two platforms have decisively contributed to the ultimate reality of the Mediterranean. They have provided support to the relationship of this space with other continents. And they share, albeit to varying degrees, several common features that, within the overall framework of similarities of all territories in the area, make them particularly comparable.
Their geography is similarly a set of large "empty" spaces and strong and symbolic mountain formations. Their population densities are low and its inhabitants are concentrated in urban areas. Even when they have strong relationships with the sea, they contain by contrast powerful areas outside it. They have no history of direct confrontations between each other on their own territories, although they engaged political and religious clashes settled on areas outside. Their cultures are related very directly to the "land" understood in both the spatial and material senses of the term. Both have defined their cultural reality on powerful religions, antagonistic in the past and in the process of approximation, understanding and cooperation in the present moment. They both have generated intermediate scale countries that still have great potential and, therefore, offer an array of opportunities for experimentation and development.
The course involves two quarterly periods, each developing architectural and spatial experiences in either geographical locations, of varying scale and programmatic status in each group, combining urban and rural areas, demonstrating the strength of the transverse vector established by the two realities, and its potential in terms of project.
An additional target is to share this experience with Turkish universities, so that, in alternating locations, simultaneous groups with complementary backgrounds may join the program. This will allow a final exchange in which the Mediterranean tradition of shared cultures manifests itself in an adequate exchange of experience on common areas.
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