1. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE CURRICULUM Pratyush Shankar Assistant Professor Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY AHMEDABAD, INDIA

2. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 1 Human interaction with the built form at various scales in the city are experienced. Those experiences, perceptions and awareness is slowly built through a series of short exercises that focus on spatial experience. Readings of buildings that are converted directly into models which then extends into the experience of space through the human body thereby bringing in issues of scale, proportion, light and materials. The intention is to engage a built environment by appropriating it from within rather than looking at it as a formal exercise. Readings of buildings Anthropometric studies to understand relationships leading to activity studies and design Shelter for picnickers

3. 0 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 2 Understanding and organising program and site specifics into the previous learning of anthropometrics and ergonomics, light and ventilation and material and form. The simultaneous operation of all these parameters and their relation to design become the basic intention of the studio. The studio also specifies certain materials as constraints to allow for a greater exploration within the framework. Detailed understanding of the site becomes also important. Building the dome : integration of design, construction, structure Clay and ceramic workshop for the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad

4. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 3 The focus of this studio is looking at structure as a maker of space. The logic, formation and evolution of the elements as characterised by an architect are to be understood. A small institutional project is to be designed to explore the identified design parameters.

5. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 5

6. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO VIII HOUSING Housing has been a noun for decades. As part of the functional-organisational-managerial mode and emphasis of modern day societies, it made sense to categorise the function to streamline systemic efficiencies. Gwal ghar: housing for cattle herding community, Ahmedabad What are the ways in which human beings use their locus to find their relationship to others, to nature and to a system of meaning? GIDC, Gandhinagar The studio gave an opportunity to study and understand the complexities involved in housing and settlements. However, can the inhabitation of space by human beings be reduced to ascertainable functional requirements alone?

7. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE Under-graduate Research thesis program Total of 893 research thesis has been completed so far List of Publications RESEARCH THESIS PROGRAM

9. FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE Panelists Juhani Pallasmaa - Finland A.G.K. Menon - Delhi Sen Kapadia - Mumbai B. V. Doshi - Ahmedabad A. D. Raje - Ahmedabad Kulbhushan Jain - Ahmedabad Kurula Varkey - Ahmedabad Neelkanth Chayya - Ahmedabad Bimal Patel- Ahmedabad Aniket Bhagwat- Ahmedabad Rajiv Kathpalia - Ahmedabad Durganand Balsavar - Chennai Vandana Singh- Mumbai Shilpa Ranade - Mumbai Quaid Dungarwala - Mumbai Pratyush Shankar - Ahmedabad Meghal Arya - Ahmedabad Kurula Varkey Design Forum Started – 2001 Statement of Intent For year it was felt that the final year projects in the schools of architecture in India represent major directions in architecture and they deserve a discussion and a review. The forum becomes the point of interaction for students of different schools, academicians and practitioners within a strict framework of review of the final year project. Process Invite all the schools of architecture. The entries received are scrutinized based on quality and theme. 20 projects are then selected for presentation. Intense discussions include attitudes, design language, visions of a valid and relevant architecture, theoretical premises, practical and technical constraints. FORUM

10. Patan Texture: The characteristic of the urban block The building block; double bay house

11. Patan Texture: The characteristic of the urban block The building block; double bay house