+CORE MODULES 


These are anchor courses around the philosophies of SEA. They are experimental and exploratory - jointly undertaken by the faculty and students of SEA towards not only developing new knowledge, but also speculating and projecting on architectural ideas and questions for developing new possibilities for life and living. These courses are set up with a twin agenda - first to build capacities in spatial analysis and design at various scales; and second to build a conceptual, spatial, visual and making culture at SEA. Conceptual Culture refers to a culture of depending on conceptual articulations to engage with life (and architecture). The premise here is that our lives (including architecture) are shaped through concepts, and it is the job of academia to interrogate them. Through these courses, students and teachers will be involved in rigorously interrogating these concepts. Each semester will focus on one of the concepts (or cluster of concepts) that have significantly shaped architecture, and subsequently life. Visual Culture refers to a culture that believes that we as society are significantly shaped by images. Here images mean drawings, photographs, signages, hoardings, and even the image of form that one perceives (for example - image of a street in one’s mind). The premise here is that the structure and language of these images (particularly drawings, when made for understanding, analysing or imagining new forms of life and space) shape the world we live in, aspire towards, and make. Every semester, the Core Courses will explore different kinds of image-making to explore the concepts they are working with. Spatial culture refers to a culture of thinking through space and place.
The premise here is that there are relationships between a specific (geographic & temporal) form of society and spatial culture - every society produces its spatiality and vice-versa (for example: a chawl or a palace or a fort  is produced in a specific society). Spatial culture not only has to do with the specific forms / types / patterns of spatiality, but also with contexts, modes, methods and mechanics of imagining / producing such spatiality along with the experiences and relationships the spatiality creates. The concept of ‘spatial culture’ collapses the distinction between materiality of space and the abstractions in social relationships into one composite idea. Spatial culture impacts the experience of space. The courses will seek to think of the world as a spatially structured entity and make space active in all engagements with the world. Making culture refers to a culture of looking closely at the mechanics of physicalities and viscerally engaging with the world. The premise here is that space and form are inseparable and humans think of space through form. Form has a structure and materiality, which are instrumental in form-making. The Core Courses will invest in experimenting and exploring form, its structure, its assemblies, its detail, the processes of putting them together along with affordances, experiences and meanings generated.

The following courses are conducted through the ten semesters as Core Courses at SEA.


︎COURSE  

+ ORIENTATION 

︎A15 Orientation Impossible 
︎A16 Punishment Devices
︎A18 Orientation: Jack and the Beanstalk
︎A20 Orientation: How to fly a kite
︎A21 Orientation: Hamzanama - Adventures of Amir Hamza

+ FORM 

︎A16 Pavilion
︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
︎A18 Specimen and Shape Geometry  
︎A19 Geometry of a Foot
︎A19 Specimen and Shape Geometry - Body Support
︎A20 Home and the Self
︎A20 Specimen and Shape Geometry - Epiphytes

+ EXPERIENCE 

︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA
︎A19 Jorge Luis Borges’s Imaginary Beings
︎A20 Ursula Le Guinn - The Birthday of the World
︎A21 Arthur Rimbaud’s Poems

+ MATERIAL & SYSTEMS 

︎A16 Material Sense
︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
︎A17 Material sense, concrete, digital design, building services, exhibition design
︎A17 Exhibition Pavilion
︎A19 New Modularity
︎A18 Large Spans and Management of Air - Maker’s Space

+ ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS

︎A14 Studying Terrain
︎A14 Environmental Thresholds in Bandra Fort
︎A15 Poisar River
︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata
︎A16 Negotiating an Estuarine Landscape - Vakollah Nallah
︎A18 Managing wetness and adopting lightness- Rescue - Community Centre
︎A18 Environmental Thresholds - School in Veti, Murbad
︎A19 Resources Flows and Systems: Artist Residency (Powai)
︎A19 Environmental thresholds: Eastern Waterfront
︎A20-21 Environmental Flows (Daman)

+ TYPE 

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ BUILDING SYSTEMS

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ INSTITUTIONAL GENEOLOGIES 

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ DETAIL 

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ BUILDING MAKING

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ MASS INHABITATION

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ SPATIAL ARGUMENTS

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

+ DISSERTATION

+ DISSERTATION DETAILS

+ OTHER COURSES

︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
︎A17 Mumbai Neighbourhoods Studies Volume 4
︎A17 Mumbai Neigbourhoods Patterns
︎A16 Women Architects of South Asia
︎A18 Mumbai Suburban Histories an Investigation into work types
︎A18 Observatories, Gardens , Pavilions and Stepwells
︎A17 Timeline of South Asian Architecture and Urbanism
︎A18 The Bangladesh Archive  
︎A15 Spatiality of the Future - Rising Seas
︎A16 Spatiality of the future -The Cloud in the City
︎A17 Spatiality of the Future- Pandemic Spatialities



︎YEAR 

︎2014-2015

    ︎ 

︎2015-2016

    ︎A15 Orientation Impossible  
    ︎A14 Siddhpur Memory Box
    ︎A14 Studying Terrain

︎2016-2017

    ︎A16 Punishment Devices
    ︎A16 Charles Correa Unbuilt
    ︎A16 Pavilion
    ︎A15 What is a home?
    ︎A14 Environmental Thresholds in Bandra Fort
    ︎A14 Resource Audits
    ︎A14 Design Detailing of a Museum Building

︎2017-2018

    ︎A17 Specimen and Shape Geometry
    ︎A17 Journey from Home to SEA 
    ︎A17 Climatic Pavilions
   ︎A16 Adaptive Surfaces
    ︎A16 Mumbai Neighbourhoods - Inner City Timeline
    ︎A16 Type in Mathar Pakhadi
    ︎A16 Material Sense
    ︎A15 South Asian Architecture and Urbanism Timeline
    ︎A15 Poisar River
    ︎A15 Long Span Exhibition Hall
    ︎A15 Environmental Thresholds - Kolkata 
    ︎A15 Public Library
    ︎A14 Hybrid High Rises

︎2018-2019

     ︎A18 Orientation: Jack and the Beanstalk
    ︎A18 Specimen and Shape Geometry  
    ︎A17 Pune Patterns - Intervening in the inner city
    ︎A17 Mumbai Neighbourhoods Studies Volume 4
    ︎A17 Material sense, concrete, digital design, building services, exhibition design
    ︎A17 What is a clinic?
    ︎A17 Library
    ︎A17 Mumbai Neigbourhoods Patterns
    ︎A16 What is a Library?  
    ︎A16 Women Architects of South Asia
    ︎A16 Productive and Performative Architecture for SEA School Building
    ︎A16 Resource Audits and Building Skins
    ︎A16 Negotiating an Estuarine Landscape - Vakollah Nallah
    ︎A16 Performing Arts Centre
    ︎A15 Hybrid High Rises
    ︎A14 - 15 Housing in Visakhapatnam and Vijaywada
    ︎A14 Spatial Arguments

︎2019-2020

    ︎A19 Geometry of a Foot
    ︎A19 Specimen and Shape Geometry - Body Support
    ︎A19 Jorge Luis Borges’s Imaginary Beings
    ︎A18 Mumbai Suburban Histories an Investigation into work types
    ︎A18 Investigating typology in Alibaug
    ︎A18 Passive House Design: Adapting to Climate Change
    ︎A18 What is a Library?
    ︎A18 Observatories, Gardens , Pavilions and Stepwells
    ︎A17 Timeline of South Asian Architecture and Urbanism
    ︎A17 Productive Architecture - Co Living Spaces
    ︎A17 Exhibition Pavilion
    ︎A17 Interpretive Centre
    ︎A17 Design Detailing of Medium Sized Institutional Building  
    ︎A16 Housing in Trichy  
    ︎A16 Hybrid High Rises
    ︎A15 Spatiality of the Future - Rising Seas
    ︎A15 Spatial Arguments

︎2020-2021

    ︎A20 Orientation: How to fly a kite
    ︎A20 Home and the Self
    ︎A20 Specimen and Shape Geometry - Epiphytes
    ︎A20 Ursula Le Guinn - The Birthday of the World
    ︎A19 What is a Factory?
    ︎A19 Composite Construction: Solar Passive House
    ︎A19 What is a Home? (Mumbai-Charkop, Delhi, Raipur, Nashik, Solapur)
    ︎A19 New Modularity
    ︎A18 The Bangladesh Archive  
    ︎A18 Large Spans and Management of Air - Maker’s Space  
    ︎A18 Resources and Urban Form - Home for Senior Citizens
    ︎A18 Managing wetness and adopting lightness- Rescue - Community Centre
    ︎A18 Environmental Thresholds - School in Veti, Murbad
    ︎A17 Housing in Mysore
    ︎A17 Hybrid High Rises
    ︎A16 Spatiality of the future -The Cloud in the City
    ︎A16 Spatial Arguments

︎2021-2022

    ︎A21 Orientation: Hamzanama - Adventures of Amir Hamza
    ︎A21 Arthur Rimbaud’s Poems
    ︎A20 Diagram, Grammar and Language of Space-Pandemic Type
    ︎A20 Spatial Patterns & Material Phenomenologies Making Home in Innter City Contexts
    ︎A20 System Ontologies
    ︎A20What is a Museum?
    ︎A19 Resources Flows and Systems: Artist Residency (Powai)
    ︎A19 Technological Sensorium
    ︎A19 Systems Details and Drawings: Textile Museum at (Paithan)
    ︎A19 Environmental thresholds: Eastern Waterfront
    ︎A18 Covid and Emergence
    ︎A18 Housing in Tiruchirappalli and Trichy
    ︎A17 Spatiality of the Future- Pandemic Spatialities
    ︎A17 Spatial Arguments

︎2022-2023

    ︎A20-21 Environmental Flows (Daman)
    ︎A19 Rethinking Housing in Mumbai
    ︎A18 Spatial Arguments

 +ALLIED STUDIES 


The pedagogical ambition of the Allied Studies courses is to question existing assumptions about the institution. It is an invitation to rethink the architectural institution as largely concerned with producing individuals with capacities to build, towards perceiving it as a collaborative of heterogeneous, distinct and autonomous directions within architecture that inform each other and draw out the merit in each other. The course aims to provide space for such an expanded idea of spatial design, where the design of the self and design of life itself become the key objectives. The courses are structured such that each faculty member anchors a studio that centres the questions that their individual practices seek to investigate. These questions raise a longue durée engagement and are deeply connected to philosophical processes.

︎COURSE  


︎Architectures of Exfoliation
︎Drawing out the Everyday: The Scribe and the Labyrinth (3)
︎Environment and Care (3)
︎Housing/Urbanization(3)
︎Human Ecology and Architecture
︎Itineraries
︎Laputa: Castle in the sky | Flying Machine
︎Living In a Metaphor (2)
︎Making Cultures: Form and Matter (4)
︎Meaning & Form: Objects, Movements and Sound
︎Miniatures
︎Participatory Design
︎Sheltering Idiosyncrasies of Home Spaces
︎Storytelling and City (3)
︎The Bricoleuse (3)
︎The Self and the Structure
︎Useful and Unuseful Objects

︎YEAR 

︎2020

    ︎Drawing out the Everyday: The Scribe and the Labyrinth
    ︎Environment and Care
    ︎Housing/Urbanization
    ︎Itineraries
    ︎Living In a Metaphor
    ︎Making Cultures: Form and Matter
    ︎Sheltering Idiosyncrasies of Home Spaces
    ︎Storytelling and City
    ︎The Bricoleuse
    ︎Useful and Unuseful Objects

︎2021

    ︎Architectures of Exfoliation
    ︎Drawing out the Everyday: The Scribe and the Labyrinth
    ︎Environment and Care
    ︎Housing/Urbanization
    ︎Laputa: Castle in the sky | Flying Machine
    ︎Living In a Metaphor
    ︎Storytelling and City
    ︎The Bricoleuse
    ︎Making Cultures: Form and Matter
    ︎Miniatures

︎2022

    ︎Architectures of Exfoliation
    ︎Drawing out the Everyday: The Scribe and the Labyrinth
    ︎Environment and Care
    ︎Human Ecology and Architecture
    ︎Making Cultures: Form and Matter
    ︎Meaning & Form: Objects, Movements and Sound
    ︎Participatory Design
    ︎Storytelling and City 
    ︎The Bricoleuse
    ︎The Self and the Structure

 +SPECIALISATION 


The pedagogical ambition of the Specialisation courses is to question existing assumptions about the institution. It is an invitation to rethink the architectural institution as largely concerned with producing individuals with capacities to build, towards perceiving it as a collaborative of heterogeneous, distinct and autonomous directions within architecture that inform each other and draw out the merit in each other. The course aims to provide space for such an expanded idea of spatial design, where the design of the self and design of life itself become the key objectives. The courses are structured such that each faculty member anchors a studio that centres the questions that their individual practices seek to investigate. These questions raise a longue durée engagement and are deeply connected to philosophical processes.

︎COURSE  


︎ Curation & Exhibition Design: Living in a Metaphor
︎ Everyday Environment and Architecture of Exfoliation
︎ Landscape Urbanism: Commons, Designing the Bio-diverse and species Inclusive City
︎ Product Design: Useful And Unuseful Objects
︎ Rethinking spatiality with Bamboo
︎ Spatiality of the Future
︎ Tactical Interventions, Possibilities of Reconciliation Through Design
︎ Technological Sensoriums
︎ 3D Digital Fabrication


︎YEAR 

︎2022

︎Curation & Exhibition Design: Living in a Metaphor
︎ Everyday Environment and Architecture of Exfoliation
︎ Landscape Urbanism: Commons, Designing the Bio-diverse and species Inclusive City
︎ Product Design: Useful And Unuseful Objects
︎ Rethinking spatiality with Bamboo
︎ Spatiality of the Future
︎ Tactical Interventions, Possibilities of Reconciliation Through Design
︎ Technological Sensoriums
︎ 3D Digital Fabrication Drawing out the Everyday: The Scribe and the Labyrinth 

 +SETTLEMENT STUDIES 


Under the settlement studies programme, different human habitations are visited in the first three years. These courses are formulated with broadly three objectives - first, to train students into undertaking organised field-work, collect data and undertake analysis of such data to make inferences and conclusions; second, to develop in students an interest and orientation towards looking at the field as a source of knowledge and of life; and lastly, to sharpen the abilities of students to sense the field using their own senses as well as their analytical capacities. At SEA field visits are also undertaken with a purpose of adding new knowledge to the field of architecture. One of the most important dimensions of field visits at SEA is that the field is used to interrogate oneself - where one asks questions about oneself via the field. Such an approach locates the locus of difference within the self, instead of the object outside. The questions are geared towards interrogating the assumption of one’s “normal” and ways in which certain spatialities get conceived within the mind. The field is

︎COURSE  


+Study of settlements in a primary economy towards understanding relationship between socio-economic life and built-form
+Study of institutional architecture / inner city areas through measured drawings towards understanding relationships between culture, built-form and behaviour / experience
+Study of an environmentally sensitive area towards understanding relationship between non-human made environment and built-form


︎YEAR 

︎2014-2015

    ︎ 

︎2015-2016

    ︎A15 Dhuriwada 
    ︎A14 Goa

︎2016-2017

    ︎A16 Jawhar

︎2017-2018

    ︎A17 Buhari
    ︎A16 Jaipur
    ︎A15 Kolkata

︎2018-2019

    ︎A18 Korlai
    ︎A17 Shivsagar
    ︎A16 Auroville
    ︎A16 Sonshi 
    ︎A14 - 15 Visakhapatnam and Vijaywada

︎2019-2020

    ︎A19 Goa: Juuawadi, Kinale, Dagadkholwadi
    ︎A18 Alibaug Koliwada
    ︎A18 Reva
    ︎A17 Powai Lake

︎2020-2021

    ︎A20  
    ︎A19 Charkop Narratives
    ︎A18 Veti Village Murbad

︎2021-2022

    ︎A21 Miriya
    ︎A20 Pangna
    ︎A19 Story of Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront - Mahul Creek
    ︎A19 Loktak Lake

︎2022-2023

    ︎A

 +STUDENT WEBSITES