Structure and Course Content:

Semester I: Theory, History, Criticism

ARC 6011: Architectural Profession

Objective:- This course is designed to

• Examine critically the function and role of architectural profession (with special reference to India), in terms of meeting the needs of various sections of society,
• Define the gap between present professional practice –the social and aesthetic values and the needs and values implicit in the current social, economic political and cultural life of Indian people, and
• Explore the possibility of generating an alternative professional culture.

Course Content (Outline)

1. Profession: Meaning, Autonomy and Regulation, Knowledge and values
2. Architectural Professions : Core competence, nature of relationship, with the state, economy (esp., corporate world), society (especially the elite), Range and nature of service provided and substitutability (sociology of the Architectural Profession).
3. Standards of evaluation of architectural- products and services both internal to the profession and external to it ----(Critical Analysis of Theory of Criticism).
4. Architectural Profession in India: Match/mis-match between the current practice-service provided and the values there of-and the societal needs and values.
5. Exploring the possibility of revision of the functional role and the values implicit in the product and service with reference to emerging multi cultural society and cross-cultural professional practice.
6. Defining the gap between the existing knowledge, skill values and professional organization/practice and the required one.
7. Architectural profession and Academia- the nature of relationship.
8. Architecture as cultural critique.

ARC 6012: Architectural Theory

Objective: This course aims at

• Describing the various types of knowledge used by the architect, explaining
• The Cultural differences that color this knowledge especially the difference between west and non-west, define.
• Limitations of the current knowledge base of the profession in India, to
• Explore the possibilities of self-representation by each culture of its practices- transcending the Orientals hypothesis- and finding ways of cross-cultural understanding (negating HUNTINGDONS Civilization conflict Hypothesis).

Course-Content (Outline)

1. Architectural Theory: The Nature; Comparison with theory in physics, sociology and Business Management.
2. Architecture: an Academic Discipline: Multi-disciplinary, Inter disciplinary, Trans-disciplinary approach to the Architectural knowledge base.
3. Types of knowledge used by Architects and implication of typological distinction for generating an autonomous integrated knowledge-base. Types: Formal-informal; Theoretical, folk,tacit,and practical; know-how, know that, know- why?
4. Knowledge and Ideology (including practice paradigms- Marx, Foucault, Post-colonial theory in Architectural theory and criticism.)
5. Information Society: Information overload and rules of knowledge for screening information.
6. Primacy in Architectural knowledge of tools and techniques of knowing than knowledge of things and Societies because of impossible range of theoretical and practical area of knowledge an architects has to deal with – centrally of research methods.
7. Architectural Discourse and Hermeneutics.

Arc-6013: Research Methods

Objectives:

• This course is a corollary to the course “Architectural Theory” . It aims at equipping the student with the tools and techniques for investigating the material and non-maternal culture of not only India but of other counties.

Course Content(outlines)

1. Research Methods employed by sociologists and psychologist in social and psychologist in social and cultural research (especially course-cultural studies).
2. Research Methods employed by Anthropologists in describing other culture.
3. Research methods used in Liter any criticism.

ARC 6014: History of Architecture

Objectives

• Review of various theories of Historiography in order to evaluate the significance and value of existing histories of Architecture especially with reference to non-western countries (Euro-centrism).
• Methods of teaching history.

Course Content(Outlines

1. Theories of Historiography and various histories of Architecture of the west.
2. Critical Analysis of existing histories of architecture of India/or any other non-western country to define the assumption and unstated value premises.
3. History of Architecture as reappraisal of tradition.
4. Uses of History in Design Studio: the choice of values.
5. ...
   1. Teaching of History:Primacy of techniques of readings past than on the description of the past.
   2. Rules for choice of period/Area/ and aspect (style,social and Economic: cultural roots)in terms of the objective of teaching design in a particular semester.

ARC 6015: History of Architectural Education, Profession and Building Practices in India in Ancient and Medieval Period.

Objective:

• To go beyond the usual “Art-History” type. History of Architecture to find it roots in education profession and building practices- to locate the base of Architecture in the material and non-material culture as formalized in concrete practice.
• This course is effectively an illustration of alternate history.

Course-Content(Outline)

1. The focus would be (I) on describing the knowledge/ and skill-base at each level of Hierarchy from Master-Builder to craftsman.
2. Social and formal organization for production.
3. The relationship between the builders and the clients and the nature of regulations.
4. The strategies and organization for transfer of skills and knowledge from master to craftsman.
5. The standards of evaluation of the product and their source and authority.

Arc-6016: Architectural education, profession and Building Practice during colonial and Post-Colonial period:

Objective: This course is similar in intent to previous course except that the focus shifts.

• Division caused by colonialism between various vernacular/ canonized and western at all levels education, profession and building practice.
• Evolution of profession education somewhat modeled on western lines.
• Defining the limitation of current educational and profession practice.
• Values:aesthetic and social, in terms of which the product were evaluated.

ARC 6017: History of Architectural Education, Profession and Building practices in any one of the following regions: China,Japan, & west Asia, North Africa.

Objective:

• This course is similar to the previous one except that or different region is being studied. The aim is to see the differences between us and then. Such course helps in deconstructing the western notions of traditional an see each tradition evolving itself in a distinct manner to produce a different base for development.

Course Content: Not any different from previous two courses.

Semester II: Subject Areas

ARC 6021: Building Science

(Architecture and Environmental Science (the interface)

• Climatological, energy, material se, physical en:
• Sustainability or economy of material use.
• Traditional Materials or methods of construction.

Objectives:

• The objective of the course is to aquanaut the student with the basic issues of environmental sustainability in context of architectural design.

Course Contents(Outlines)

1. Theory of sustainability and choice of materials and technology
2. Energy optimization and Architectural Design.
3. Techniques for analyzing environmental impact of architectural projects.

ARC 6022: Building Eng.

Course Content(Outline)

• Building engineering: Division of responsibility between the engineer and Architect.
• Issues in Collaboration between Architect and various specialized engineering discipline in the design of highly serviced building.
• Structural engineer and Architect-: the interface .
• Issues in defining the range, depth., of knowledge which architect must have of various branches of engineering especially structural engineering.
• Defining Goals of practical training and experimental work in the Laboratory.
• Methods of teaching engineering to non-engineers.

Objectives:

• To define the scope of knowledge of engineering usage by an architect, and to describe the methods of teachings.

Building Management: ARC 6023

Objective:

• The primary focus of this course is in the relationship between building design and management especially with respect to cost Control.

Course Content(Outline)

1. To define the scope, range and depth of knowledge which architect should have of the following subjects:
   1. site-management including supervisory management.
   2. building Management including materials management.
   3. project Management.
2. Building Management, cost control and Design Option/ revisions.

ARC 6024: Production

Objective: To examine the relationship between

• Design and Production
• Design and technology.

Course – Content(Outline)

1. Consequence of split of responsibility between designer and builder with special reference to product quality.
2. Choice of technology and Design
3. Technology and culture with special reference to appropriate technology.
4. Futurology / Technological forecasting.
5. Building Technology and industrial systems of the country.
6. Housing and Industrial Design.

ARC 6025: Design Studios:Curricula and Methods,

A. Horizontal Linkage.

• History } Theory } Design Studio

Objectives:

• To explain the issues involved in teaching design studios,
• examine validity of Design Jury as an evaluating mechanism.

Course Content(Outlines)

1. Setting of design exercises,
2. Process of conceptualization
3. Role of the Design-master: analysis of studio-method(Master appropriate)
4. Design Jury-Peer-group evaluation and transfer of un-rationalised values from Juror/Masters to students/apprentice.
5. Methods of individualizing design studio teaching.

ARC 6026: Professional Practice.

Objectives:

• The primary focus is to define the possibility of using modern management techniques in managing Architectural Practice (office) in context of emerging architectural MNC’s and possibility of India architectural office translating to the small scale from tiny and cottage scale.

Course-Content(Outline)

1. To define the scope of teaching.
   1. Management of Practice:
      1. office management with special reference to control and monitoring.
      2. Organizational Design and allocation of responsibility
      3. Marketing Management with special reference to relationship with clienteles.
2. Team Building.
   1. Professional Collaboration and management thereof.

ARC 6027: Teaching Practice

Objective:

• This is purely a practical course. The students under a guide will in writing design at least two lecture of one hour each in all the major areas of study and actually deliver the lecture to a regular undergraduate class at the basic level (first to 3^rd year students)

ARC 7011: Drawing and related arts of communications

Objective

1. To define the role of drawing in conceptualization and communication of Design with special reference to theory of communication,
2. To define the role of computer as a drafting tool.
3. To address the issues of communication with public, other professionals and policy makers.

Course Content(outline)

1. Drawing and related arts of graphics scenography etc as tools of communication in terms of commutation theory.
2. Tools of communication with clients(including use of models)
3. Tools of communication with public and policy makers.
4. Pros and cons of drawing against computer

Semester III: Architectural Arts

ARC 7012: Computer and Architecture

Objective:

• To educate and train student to use computer as an analytical tool in taking design decisions.

Course contents(outline)

1. Potential of Computer as an aide in analysis;
2. Computer as an inbuilt check on conformity to various constants of law, norms of practice.
   1. as a visualizing medium
   2. as data bank (storage and retrieval)
3. Special use in specific areas of design decision– making: structure, services etc:

ARC 7013: Workshop Practice

Objective .

• To examine critically the range and depth of learning of each skills/crafts which an architect need to have,
• Train students in supervising and monitoring of workshop practice of students .

Contents:- In terms of the above objective

ARC 7014: Architecture film and Photography.

ARC 7015 Technical Report Writing

ARC 7016 Animator/Model Making

Objective of course and contents

• The above three courses are purely technical training courses in threes skills. The level of achievement is fixed at Intermediate for all the three courses.

ARC 7017: Re-Design of a Traditional Habitat (Design Studio Course) Objectives:

• This is a capstone course wherein students are expected to frame there project explicitly reckoning with the issues raised in theory course taught so far.
• The other alternative is to make this purely theoretical discussing the Variety of issues pertaining to philosophy and process of design.

Semester IV: Dissertation

objective: Only theoretical/analytical work would be accepted.