Mimarlık Lisans Diploması

Professional Communication Skills: Ability to write and speak effectively in the architectural areaDesign Thinking Skills: Ability to raise clear and precise questions, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test alternative outcomes against relevant criteria and standards.Investigative Skills and Applied Research: Ability to gather, assess, record, and comparatively evaluate relevant information and performance in order to support conclusions related to a specific project or assignment.Architectural Design Skills: Ability to effectively use basic formal, organizational and environmental principles and the capacity of each to inform two- and three-dimensional design.Use of Precedents: Ability to examine and comprehend the fundamental principles present in relevant precedents and to make informed choices regarding the incorporation of such principles into architecture and urban design projects.Historical Traditions and Global Culture: Understanding of parallel and divergent canons and traditions of architecture, landscape and urban design including examples of indigenous, vernacular, local, regional, national settings from the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern hemispheres in terms of their climatic, ecological, technological, socioeconomic, public health, and cultural factors. Cultural Diversity: Understanding of the diverse needs, values, behavioral norms, physical abilities, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the implication of this diversity on the societal roles and responsibilities of architects.Pre-Design: Ability to prepare a comprehensive program for an architectural project, which must include an assessment of client and user needs, an inventory of space requirements, an analysis of site conditions (including existing buildings), a review of the relevant laws and standards, including relevant sustainability requirements, and assessment of their implications for the project, and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.Accessibility: Ability to design sites, facilities, and systems consistent with Disabilities, Site Design: Ability to respond to site characteristics including zoning, soil, topography, vegetation, and watershed in the development of a project design.Technical Documentation: Ability to make technically clear drawings, write outline specifications, and prepare models illustrating and identifying the assembly of materials, systems, and components appropriate for a building design.Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of environmental systems’ design, which must include active and passive heating and cooling, indoor air quality, solar orientation, daylighting and artificial illumination, and acoustics; and an understanding of performance assessment tools.Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.Building Envelope Systems and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate selection and application of building envelope systems.Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems, Life Safety: Ability to apply the basic principles of life-safety systems with an emphasis on egress.Financial Considerations: Understanding of the fundamentals of building costs, which must include project financing methods and feasibility, construction estimating, operational costs,

Every student should make a registration for every class at the beginning of the semester. Attendance by 70% in theoretical classes and by 80% in practical classes is a must to take the end of term exams. The rate of midterm exams and the end of term exam in the final grade is 40% and 60% respectively. All exams are scored over 100 points. 60 points are required in the end of term exam.To complete all classes in the program (equivalent of 240 ECTS in total) and 30 day office and 30 day construction site internship.

Candidates are required to have high school or equivalent diploma and to have a passing score in the University Student Selection Examination.

Architects can be employed at construction companies and engineering- architecture offices of enterprises. Furthermore, they can work at private companies as well as public organizations such as the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Development and Housing, the Bank of İller and Municipalities and they can establish their own offices.- Computer knowledge and technologic developments in architecture facilitate drawings, pricing and calculation, yet personnel with good foreign language and computer skills are required in the field.- Persons who have recently graduated from the faculties of architecture in our country can immediately begin practicing their profession and establish offices. In many European cities, however, it is required to be employed as an intern at an experienced office for a certain period of time before starting working as qualified personnel. A similar requirement might be effective in our country in the upcoming years.- There is always a need for experienced and qualified architects in the market.

Qualification is continuous