Architectural Restoration Program
Program Purpose:
The Restoration Program helps to preserve cultural heritage that possesses aesthetic, historical, and documentary values. In order to pass these important pieces of the culture to future generations, the program trains its students with a highly-educated art and technical staff to conduct high-level project planning and implementation on civil architecture, monuments and monumental buildings, preparation of building surveys, restitution offers, restoration/reconstruction projects. The language of instruction of this program is Turkish.
In a theoretical and practically designed education program, students are taught the protection concepts, restoration and conservation basic principles and methods, material properties of wood and masonry, construction technology and construction, basic technical drawing technical drawing rules, and computer skills, traditional building types, the traditional concepts of structural elements, all bearing and non-load bearing structural elements and components and their function, material and shape properties; extraction of measured drawings of traditional constructions and constructional elements, conduction of analysis, determine the current state and drawing restitution and restoration projects, acquisition of basic knowledge related to traditional handicrafts; taking inventories of historical artifacts and theory and methods of use of photographs and plans of restoration work in laboratories.
Students wishing to enroll in the Architectural Restoration program are expected to have outstanding color and shape perception, the power of aesthetics, strength of dexterity of fingers and hands use, as well as enjoy working outdoors on the fine arts. In this program, in addition to basic courses given to students,several courses such as Technical Drawing I, Technical Drawing II, Basic Computer, Principles of Antiquities Conservation and Restoration, Traditional Building Systems and Elements I, Architecture and History of Art, General Restoration Techniques, Basics of Survey, Survey I and then Survey II and Restoration Project, are taught
Employment Opportunities:
Program completers of the "Graduate Program in Architectural Restoration" will be employed in laboratories, sites and offices of public (Ministry of Culture and Tourism Restoration and Conservation Central Laboratory, Directorate of Architectural Survey and Monuments, General Directorate of Foundations…) and private organizations engaged in restoration activities, museums and palaces which belong to the Directorate of National Palaces, archaeological excavation teams and construction sites, as technical staff to architects.