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Architectural Mimicry, Spaces of Modernity: the Island Casino, Izmir, Turkey
(Routledge, 2013-12)This article looks through the lense of an entertainment building in Izmir, Turkey, within the larger framework of modernity and identity in order to scrutinise ways in which cross-cultural influences are mediated. The ... -
Assessing Creativity in Design Education
(Elsevier Limited, 2012)The aim of this study is to explore creativity in design education and identify the creativity assessment indicators in the first-year design studio. A measurement tool of 41 items that consists of the artifact creativity, ... -
Collaborative digital environments to enhance the creativity of designers
(Elsevier Limited, 2014-06)This study explores the interaction of the essential components of creativity and collaboration in a digital environment in the design process. The framework is based on Amabile's componential theory of creativity, which ... -
Colour and design: From natural patterns to monochrome compositions
(Elsevier Limited, 2011-03)There is no doubt that nature provides endless inspiration to the world of design. In order to explore the role of colour in design, forty-two people were asked to first choose a pattern from nature, then to abstract this ... -
Colour contribution to children's wayfinding in school environments
(Elsevier Limited, 2011)The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of colour to children's wayfinding ability in school environments and to examine the differences between colours in terms of their remembrance and usability in route ... -
Colour Naming
(Elsevier Limited, 2006)An experimental study exploring colour ranges corresponding to different colour names has been conducted. Available colour terms in Turkish language have been identified and the most frequently known or used colour terms ... -
Community and Neighborhood Relations in Ankara: an Urban-Suburban Contrast
(Elsevier Limited, 2010)This paper focuses on community and neighbourhood relations of two high-income districts in Ankara. A suburban and a more traditional urban community are contrasted via a field survey that focuses on attitudes toward certain ... -
Data Collection for a Virtual Museum on the Underwater Survey at Kas, Turkey
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03)The Underwater Archaeological Survey Project at Kas¸, on the Lycian coast of Turkey, has emerged from a need to document, research and preserve underwater sites in the area surrounding the town of Kas¸. This region has ... -
The distribution of urban public services: The case of parks and recreational services in Ankara
(Elsevier Limited, 1997-12)The provision of urban services is a central issue in urban planning and development, The distribution of these services to guarantee their effective utilization is another focus of concern, As citizens are heterogeneous ... -
The effect of moisture content on sound absorption of expanded perlite plates
(Elsevier BV, 2005-03)Expanded perlite is a porous, lightweight, fire resistant and moisture retaining material with sound and thermal insulation properties. In this research, acoustical behaviour of plates made of expanded perlite was studied ... -
Experiences with Moodle as a communication tool for design teamwork: a users' perspective
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Focus on Architectural Design Process through Learning Styles
(Elsevier Limited, 2003-09)Learning as an interactive process is an important issue in architectural design education. This study aims to focus on architectural design process through learning styles that are 'accommodating', 'diverging', 'assimilating' ... -
Focus on the Learning Styles of Freshman Design Students
(Elsevier Limited, 2008-05)Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Model, this study explores learning styles of freshman design students in three consecutive academic years. Principal Component Analysis method is used to reduce the number of variables ... -
Generating Design Activities through Sketches in Multi-Agent Systems
(Elsevier, 2005-12)This study describes a multi-agent system that acts as a mediator between the designer and the information environment. The system enables designers to locate and retrieve information from distributed resources. There are ... -
Global transformations versus local dynamics in Istanbul
(Elsevier Limited, 2000)Istanbul, as the greatest metropolis of Turkey and one of the great cities of the world, has been rapidly transforming in recent years. This paper analyzes various aspects of this transformation to lead to an understanding ... -
Impact of Lighting Arrangements and Illuminances on Different Impressions of a Room
(Elsevier BV, 2007)This study explores whether different lighting arrangements (general lighting, wall washing and cove lighting) and different illuminances (500 and 320 lux) could affect the perception of the same space. An experimental ... -
The (in)secure position of the design jury towards computer generated presentations
(Elsevier Limited, 2005-05)The tendency towards computer aid in design presentations differs in academia than in the practicing field; practice seems to welcome computer aid in presentation, whereas in academia there seems to be a dilemma. In this ... -
Inclusive design: developing students' knowledge and attitude through empathic modelling
(Routledge, 2014-06-26)To enhance the function and quality of built environments, designers should consider all possible users in their design projects. Therefore, it is essential to incorporate inclusive design in the education of the design ... -
An Insight on Designers' Sketching Activities in Traditional versus Digital Media
(Elsevier, 2003-01)This study aims at gaining an insight on designers' cognitive processes while sketching in digital vs traditional media. Empirical data on design processes have been obtained from protocol analyses of six interior designers ... -
An interdisciplinary heuristic evaluation method for universal building design
(Elsevier Limited, 2009)This study highlights how heuristic evaluation as a usability evaluation method can feed into Current building design practice to conform to universal design principles. It provides a definition of universal usability that ...
