STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE
To achieve the Objectives mentioned earlier, the school has a multi-disciplinary course structure, which exposes students to various allied fields of visual and performing arts, communication skills, product design, humanities, social and behavioral sciences in addition to the fundamentals of architectural studies.

The course structure of first two and half years is geared for those multiple exploration. While the third and fourth year of architecture emphasizes towards the actual resolution of the building, the history and theory courses in these years are concentrated towards understanding of the various norms in the practice and production of architecture. At fourth and fifth year level, students are offered additional courses in project management and communication skills including architecture and construction specific management studies. Also, at fifth year, students are engaged in a dissertation project works.

The course is divided in various sections for convenience. However it is realized that there are interrelations among the subjects, which work as a whole to achieve the objectives. The theory, seminar, and history courses lay base for questioning the present paradigms of practice and establishing new directions. These new concepts are put to test in the projects formulated for the design studio. The subjects in technology and management practice enhance these ideas.

DESIGN I
The studio starts with analytical studies of certain objects, natural or artificial. The analytical drawings are then used as a basis for designing new objects / products that answer to specific needs. The emphasis here, as at several other places through the five years is on the process of design. Concerns with ergonomic conditions, real or fictitious, are a part of the process, which is developed as a methodology for future reference. An extension of this process takes place with exercises that deal with the design of small environment with specific programmatic requirements.

DESIGN II
The studio deals with architecture at a domestic scale and the exigencies created due to non-conventional design situations. Students are required to design residential / work spaces for an individual or for small groups. A central concern for the formulation of design projects at this level has been the incorporation of specific user needs that stimulate students to move away from the conventional categories of residential architecture. The idea of the studio is to explore architecture through the sensory realm, to work in terms of the experience of spaces of habitation.

A study tour halfway through the course introduces students to measured drawings in a rural / semi-urbanized situation and the subsequent design problems rely on the impetus provided by this experience.

DESIGN III
The level generally deals with public institutions. The scale increases, as does the impingement of contextual factors on the design process. It is not just the experimental, but also the semantic and contextual aspects of the design that come up for exploration here. This is usually dealt with at the level of institutions situated within pre-industrial, organic settlements / urban fringes. As in the previous unit, this is aided by the study tour, which concentrates on the structure of the entire settlement fabrics. The dimension of the project being situated in historical contexts emerges as a major concern here, to be more fully developed in future years.

DESIGN IV
The studio has two parts, the Design studio and the urban students are assigned projects involving architectural interventions in industrial and post-industrial circumstances. The articulation of the specific stance with relation to the context take priority, and students are expected to make use of their training in other subjects, specifically history and cultural studies, in order to position their interventions. Beginning with the previous unit, the design studios at this level also emphasize a high level of practical resolution in the projects.

The Urban Studies studio spans across two semesters, in the first semester the students undertake an elaborate study on various historical, economical and social issues concerning urban development. The interest in this study is in doing original research in areas, which are not addressed so far, but are highly relevant to the contemporary situation. The theoretical paradigms concerning the subject and terminologies relevant to the subject are clarified. In the studio involve interventions within urban fabrics.

DESIGN V
Students are required at this stage to work on an independent design project, chosen by themselves in accordance with university requirements. Students have to select a project, make case studies and submit a fully resolved design proposal all the institutional scale. While the design courses concentrate on the experience and meaning of the architectural object, the technology courses emphasize the resolution and construction of these objects. The courses deal with the possibilities for converting designs into buildable projects. Choices to do with materials, structural systems, construction technology, cost analysis and project management come up for deliberation.

TECHNOLOGY I
The FIRST YEAR of this course is based on the contention that an exploration of the intuitive notions of building and construction objects can be fruitfully harnessed towards an understanding of architecture. A process of observation of natural analogues of technology is used to enable students to grasp structural concepts. The course seeks to impart an introduction to construction techniques through experiments involving situations dealing with static and kinetic structures. The fundamentals principles of construction are taught through the challenges posed by these experiments.

TECHNOLOGY II
Various kinds of building materials are introduced at this juncture and their potentials for form making are studied. The historical development of the use of these materials and the allied techniques of their use are studied simultaneously in this course.

TECHNOLOGY III
The course concentrates on principles of structures. Students are given analytical and mathematical tolls, which help them to understand and determine variables such as bending moment, stress, strain, loads and weight distribution. These form the basis for future applications of structural theory.

TECHNOLOGY IV
The technology course here comes into direct interface with the design studio, and a recent design project of each student is developed into a series of technical drawings on the basis of material selections and choice of structural systems.

Together with the previous course, this course provides the tools to make decisions towards resolution of the design projects.

TECHNOLOGY V
The exhaustive technology inputs at this stage establish, through relevant methods of representation, the requirements for making a building work. This involves services, quantity surveying, building specifications and project management.

VISUAL STUDIES AND WORKSHOP
These courses continue immediately following the introductory workshop in the first year. The course stretches over three semesters. The objective is to introduce the fundamentals of visual art and elements of composition this is done in tandem with a critical inquiry into the way meaning is produced through the organization and reading of form. Extensive practice and techniques of representation aims towards a high level of understanding of form and development of skills.

The workshop component of this program stretches over the first three years and concentrates on exposing students to working directly with various mediums including ceramics, wood, scrap and print making. The emphasize is not only on learning to handle materials, but also on reacting to thematic concerns. Mechanical assemblages and environmental sculpture frequently result out of these experiments.

HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The course studies developments in art and architecture from prehistory to the twentieth century. Rather than just providing an informative documentary of these developments and attempt is made to critically and contextually understand the tools of historical analyses.

The course concentrates on social, economic and political history as a background to understand art and architectural developments through different historical periods in various cultures. 49 From the very initial stages, students are introduced to concepts and methodologies used in contemporary critical thought with leads to an understanding of historical processes.

THEORY OF DEISGN
The theory of Design courses stretch over the second to the fifth year. The course deals with issues and idea regarding Modernism and Colonialism representation and methodology. The intention of the course is essentially criticality regarding various cultural practices. The course introduces and examines various terms, issues and individual practices, which became relevant in the past century to the production of social objects and structure.

MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

SEMINARS
The first seminar course offered at the third year level investigates the emergence of urban systems including economic, scientific, Philosophical and architectural developments. The fifth year seminar course initiates a critical inquiry into the nature of contemporary cultural practice and theory.

ALLIED ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Introductory Orientation Workshop at the beginning of the semester
• Guest Lectures three lectures and discussions every month
• Study Tours three times in two years
• Exchange Studios in India and abroad
• Electives offered in allied fields