The course helps build a vocabulary to study environment and sustainability as disputed terrains between technological fixes and issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and colonial status.
Category: TEACHING
Architectural Design Theory and Criticism
The course explores significant changes in theory and practice across the design disciplines and professions (with particular emphasis on architecture), and considers how they are intertwined with larger social and historical forces.
Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism: Baroque-Present
The course provides an overview of the history of the built environment from 1500 AD to the present.
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE THEORY AND CRITICISM
The course provides an introduction to the ideas that have informed design thinking from the 19th century to the present, with an emphasis on the debates of the last four decades.
THEORIES AND METHODS IN TEACHING ARCHITECTURE
The course covers specific aspects of teaching with an emphasis on modes of teaching within the discipline of architecture.
SEMINAR IN CRITICAL PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
Theories and methods from anthropology, social history, and design activism.
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROCESSES IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
The course focuses on the significance of the physical environment in human life as citizens and as future design professionals and it introduces students to the field of human-environment studies.
CHANDIGARH: A CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA
The studio challenges the students to investigate the viability of utopian planning in the context of contemporary economics, material exchange, and politics
Design STUDIO II
Commercial spaces as a pretest to address aspects related to interior design.
DESIGN STUDIO i
The studio used the parallelepiped form to guide spatial operations.
TECHNOLOGy of architecture
The studio built on the Italian tradition of building preservation through the retrofitting of a residential unit in a historical building.
