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The Council of Architecture (COA) has been given the responsibility of regulating architectural education at an undergraduate level.
Since it is bonded to get professionals and administrators only from an available lot to define the minimum standards and periodic inspection, it hasn’t been able to do much towards motivating these schools to perform beyond the minimum level of performance.
CEPT (http://www.cept.ac.in/)
A premier educational institute created in 1962 in the country, CEPT offers three fulltime undergraduate and 16 post-graduate courses in the field of Built Form and Environment.
The campus takes one’s breath away with the first impression it gives of permeability. Raised on pilotis (stilts), this creation of architect B V Doshi boasts of an informal and flexible atmosphere which has been garnered through the flow of space and use of workstations, replicating an organic growth.
My visit to the campus instilled in me a different approach towards architecture. It is all about the attitude conveyed by the building, which gets absorbed by the students too.
A talk with them reflects their genuine passion for architecture and the respect they have for their faculty. For them, this 24-hour campus is an addiction, their second home where they spend hours on deliberations and exchange of ideas.
Since the college has student exchange programmes with many international institutions like the University of Calgary, Canada; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland; Renesselear Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New York; and the University of Cincinnati, USA, the students are provided with an opportunity to spend one academic semester in these institutions.
Thoughts shared by other great institutes like Bauhaus, lectures and seminars by the best in the field are just some of the advantages on offer. Self-study is given prime importance.
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