PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

Architectural Restoration Program is an associate degree program that aims to transfer all immovable and movable cultural assets that have historical and cultural value to the future by ensuring the protection and repair of all cultural assets with scientific and correct methods. In the Architectural Restoration Program, 2 years (4 semesters, each semester at least 14 weeks) education is given. In order for students to graduate, they must have a GPA of 2.00 or above and must also do an internship for 30 working days.  The education and training given in this program is in the form of theoretical and practical courses, projects and workshops, professional development and professional practices and is capable of responding to the needs of the sector and protection awareness.

 

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

The protection of cultural heritage is as important for creating the values of the future as the past. At this point, the aim of the Architectural Restoration Program is to train technical staff who are conservation conscious, environmentally sensitive, responsible, able to follow contemporary developments, equipped with practical and theoretical skills, able to carry out conservation and repair work, and able to provide communication between the architect and the working staff in our country, which has a history of thousands of years of civilization.

 

In order to achieve this goal; students are trained in many fields such as architecture and art history, archaeology, documentation techniques, conservation theory and conservation techniques, traditional building types, construction systems and materials, traditional handicrafts, technical drawing, surveying, analyzing, determining the current situation, drawing restitution and restoration projects, drawing computer-aided drawing.

 

FIELDS OF STUDY

 

Students who graduate from this program receive an associate degree diploma and the title of technician, archaeologist, art historian, architect, civil engineer, etc. They can work together with members of disciplines.

 

They are active in restoration issues,

 

Ministry of Culture Restoration and Conservation Central Laboratory,

Ministry of Culture, Directorate of Relief and Monuments,

General Directorate of Foundations

In public institutions such as municipalities,

In all museums,

National Palaces

Archaeological excavation teams

They can work in architecture - engineering offices and construction sites.

 

VERTICAL TRANSITION OPPORTUNITIES

The Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) is conducted by ÖSYM for successful students who graduate from Vocational Schools Programs to make vertical transfer to formal education undergraduate programs.

In the table of undergraduate programs that can be transferred vertically according to the 2018 associate degree graduation areas published by ÖSYM, the undergraduate programs that our students who graduated from the Architectural Restoration Program in the vertical transfer exam (DGS) preference guide can settle;

 

Architecture

Interior Architecture

Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

City and Regional Planning

Traditional Turkish Handicrafts

Traditional Turkish Arts

Handicrafts

Old Tile Repairs

Tezhip

Illumination (Ornament)

Protection and Repair of Cultural Assets

Restoration and Conservation


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