Sunshine Jayant 3 BX Roll No. 18
Sunshine Jayant 3 BX Roll No. 18
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ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is one remarkable human endeavour. It is one of the means through
which we try to create a sense of our intriguing, yet messy world. It has become a
part of our day to day lives. We live and work in the buildings designed by architects.
This field requires a person to be able to combine creativity with logic to be able to
give a quality output. One has to design a building in such a manner that not only
should it serve the purpose of giving shelter to the people but blends with the
environment itself. These are a few reasons why it is really important to study
architecture or at least have basic knowledge about it.
Schools of architecture provide knowledge about building sciences, services, old and
latest technologies. Architecture requires knowledge of both Arts and Sciences. A
student is required to develop knowledge of humanities, science and understand
construction and technologies. Communicational skills, both verbal and visual are
also vital.
There are many architecture colleges in India as of now but the fact that most of
them don’t have the ideal environment expected, especially out of the metropolitan
cities, for studying architecture is an issue. In India, most of the students tend to go
for medical and engineering fields, leaving hardly 15-20% of the students who take
architecture. It is really important to build better architecture colleges so that
students understand the need for architecture.
EVOLUTION
After the Britishers had left India, Walter George decided to stay. At the time, there
were hardly any architecture colleges in India. George and his colleagues thus began
working on the first institution in Delhi for imparting training to students of
architecture. Mr Mirza became the first head of Department of architecture and the
students got their first diploma of architecture in 1950.
The first Architecture college of India was Sir J.J. School of Architecture which was
established in 1913. Later on, in the 1960s, more architecture colleges such as School
of Architecture and Planning (SPA), Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA),
Center for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT, Ahmedabad) were
established. These colleges offered undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and
executive education programs.
It was after the two world wars that rapid building and standardisation of building
process took place. In the late 1960s, social values had changed in such a way that
there was a radical paradigm shift in architecture. There were a lot of social-cultural
experiments. The 1968 destruction of the Pruitt–Igoe urban housing projects
designed by Minoru Yamasaki signified a change in thinking about architecture,
away from the anonymous factory, toward more diversified, socially-oriented,
experimental spatial typologies. This shift was started perhaps with the Yale School
of Architecture, designed by Paul Rudolph.
Bouwkunde by Broek-Bakema (1970), also purposefully tried to break the
all-is-possible-box structure. The architects literally divided the several components
of an all-encompassing box up into public elements that could be regrouped along a
central street and private study spaces into a slab hovering above the street.
After the 1990s, the box-in-box type of buildings changed rapidly, leading the
change in the process of building and design. The future spatial requirements were
not clear in this way. Thus, the box-in-box design split itself into certain and
uncertain elements and thus maintaining efficient planning.
The public elements included the canteen, model shop, drawing studios, etc. and
were configured along a central street that resembled an actual outdoor street, with
streetlights and informal seating places for exchange and interaction. A similar idea
of arranging individual spatial elements along public circulation was used by Frank
Lloyd Wright in his Taliesin West School of Architecture
SURVEY
The need for practical experience is a must for students of architecture. There is a
saying that when I hear, I forget. When I see, I remember. And when I do, I
understand. The saying applies fits for Architecture as much as it does for other
fields. Students are made to draft plans, sections and elevations of the project they
work on with a pencil when they first enter. This makes one understand the concept
of line weights, proportions and perspectives. Before jumping to softwares, it is
essential to learn the traditional way of doing things.
When a survey was conducted, students of architecture were asked as to what
changes would they want to see in the design of their college. Majority of them
wanted different spaces for different activities. When provided with proper tools
and equipment, the learning experience enhances and makes it better for the
students to understand things.
Majority of the students found the Library to be a space where they can think and
come up with ideas. Libraries are meant for reading, but when it comes to the
students of architecture, it is a space where they can discuss their projects and
assignments, be it individual work or group project. Students should be provided
with separate spaces for such tasks to be carried out. Partitions and private spaces for
such work can allow the students to discuss among themselves without disturbing
the rest of the people present there.
Studios, which are scattered throughout the campus, can be designed in such a way
that they allow introverted classrooms but with a common link for intra-batch
interactions. This way, there would be no disturbances when classes are held and
students can interact and discuss projects over breaks and free time.