The World Architecture Day was celebrated on 4th October 2021. Prof. Vinod Aranha, Director of NIA, welcomed the guests, invitees and attendees to the virtual event.
Dr. Satheesh Kumar Bhandary, Vice-Chancellor, Nitte DU delivered the presidential remarks. The Guests of Honour for the event were Ar. Chitra Vishwanath, Principal & Director, Biome Environmental Solutions and Ar. Neville D'Souza, Principal Architect, 4th Dimension.
The 7th Semester students from the Urban Design Studio made a presentation. The closing remarks were given by Ar. Arul Paul. Student Support Coordinator, Mr. Anil Devadiga coordinated the event....
The NIA Conversation titled "Ecological Design Thinking" by Dr. Upendra Raval was conducted on 6th October 2021 in an online mode. It was facilitated by Ar. Nikhil Shah.
Dr. Upendra Raval (Muni Bhai) is a distinguished academician and an environmentalist. He has over 30 years of experience working with water systems and wastewater management. He holds a PhD in Zoology, and his doctoral research explored functional anatomy and avian biology. He has widely lectured and engaged with design and engineering schools across India over 12 years. Since 2016, he is engaged with SVNIT, Surat, as a visiting professor where he teaches students of M.Tech (Urban Planning) exploring 21st centur...
The Summer School 2020-21 was designed as a digital masterclass with eminent architects and design thinkers, from India and abroad. The aim was to nurture creative and intellectual independence to help students advance authentically inspired design and research. Students immersed in exploring, experimenting, designing and creative thinking, through a series of online sessions under two themes: Theoretical Thinking and Sustainability.
To mark the end of this year's summer school, a concluding session was organised as a Virtual Roundtable discussion on the theme 'Architecture: The Wicked Problem' with the Masterclass mentors Chitra Vishwanath, Shubhra Raje, Peter Rich and Kevin Mar...
The summer school titled "Theoretical Thinking Master Class" by Ar. Kevin Mark Low was conducted from 20th to 24th August 2021 in online mode. It was facilitated by Ar. Nikhil Shah, Ar. Jacob Thomas, Mr. Anil Devadiga and Ar. Poonam Balur.
Kevin Mark Low emphasizes on the importance of critically engaging with the greatest works of architecture, in order to understand their functionality rather than just their aesthetic qualities. He recalls the intent of his master class to demystify works of master architects and help students understand what makes an architectural project, iconic.
The workshop critically looked at decolonizing one's being and departing from t...
The goal of the workshop was to expand conventional understanding of buildings and their components, by altering associations with them through the way one engages drawings. Through this process, one will look at questions as students and practitioners but are unable or unwilling to engage with - Where do ideas come from? What does it mean to be creative? What is the act of design? And where does an architectural project reside?
The workshop started with the story telling and illustrating exercise. The next exercise was with the Social institutions of the city that one has experienced. One only thinks of the large and the iconic, and never of the local centres. These institutions ...
Over the last few years since its inception, the attempt of the NIA summer school has been to bring in resources from diverse design domains and nurture creative learning. Special emphasis is given to the process of creative thinking, making and exploring & and experimenting with new materials. Under the current pandemic scenario, we would be unable to host it in its original workshop and travel-based format. To overcome this optimistically, the attempt to current year's Summer School is to host a Diverse Design thinking program as a Master Class conducted by some of the major national and international practicing architects and academicians. The Summer School is scheduled from 5th to 10...
Read MoreNitte Institute of Architecture (NIA) in collaboration with Design Quotient Labs (DQ Labs) hosted a power-prep online workshop to resolve any last minute queries of the aspiring architects concerning the upcoming NATA exams.
Ar. Nikhil Shah from NIA coordinated with the resource persons from DQ labs to conduct the counselling and mentoring session on July 9, 2021 from 4 PM to 6 PM. The workshop received 150 registrations from interested candidates and was successfully conducted for students hailing from the country and abroad. The session was also live streamed on NIA's YouTube channel and can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yg7va1Qaf0 .
The two hour onlin...
The summer school titled "Sustainability Master Class" by Architect Chitra Vishwanath was conducted from 7th to 12th August 2021 in online mode. The topic focussed on was 'City, Play and Nature'. The sessions aimed at developing a deeper understanding about the physical environment and the play that happens in the built form. The outcome aimed at understanding "Pause", "Breathing Space" and "Playfulness of space" through the traditional Mangaluru design elements and proposing a design intervention.
Chitra Vishwanath is a principal architect at Biome Environmental Solutions which is a Bangalore-based design firm. The firm focuses on ecology, architecture, and water. Her ideas of su...
On the first day of the workshop, Mr. Waseem Mushtaq introduced the topic 'Creative Writing' and how it gives endless freedom to explore writing. He also explained how it differs from other types of writing. He also conducted a fun writing exercise about creating captions for images. The second day of the workshop began with reviewing and advising improvements to the 'Short Story' assignment given to the students. A session introducing 'Script Writing ' which was one of the most awaited topics was taken next. Before concluding the workshop Mr. Waseem Mushtaq engaged the students in an interactive session where he answered questions from students and also shared his experiences of writing and...
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In the wake of recent architectural development in the country, architectural education has taken a huge turn towards innovation and collaboration. Students are learning from more than just in the institution and a wide variety and diversity of exposure and opportunities is becoming a mandate in education. The cross-cultural learning that is widespread in the west is now taking a huge wave across our nation and such an era calls for collective and dynamic growth in a symbiotic manner.
In consideration of the above, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 2nd August 2021, between Nitte Institute of Architecture represented by its Director, Ar. Vinod Aranha and RVS Padmavathy S...
Nitte Institute of Architecture (NIA) in collaboration with Design Quotient Labs (DQ Labs) hosted a power-prep online workshop to resolve any last-minute queries of the aspiring architects concerning the upcoming NATA exams.
Ar. Nikhil Shah from NIA coordinated with the resource persons from DQ labs to conduct the counselling and mentoring session on July 9, 2021, from 4 PM to 6 PM. The workshop received 150 registrations from interested candidates and was successfully conducted for students hailing from the country and abroad. The session was also live-streamed on NIA's YouTube channel and can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yg7va1Qaf0 .
The two-hour on...
Lucknow Unrestrained: Palimpsest of Incongruous Possibilities is a chapter, co-authored by Sonal Mithal, Visiting Associate Professor, CEPT University, Ahmedabad and Arul Paul, Associate Professor, Nitte Institute of Architecture, in the book Radical City: Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City edited by Pithamber R. Polsani, and published in 2021 by SAGE Publications India, New Delhi.
The text presents Lucknow as a Radical City, a city that does not conform to conventions of polity, gender, religion, education, entertainment, and revolt. Queer Lucknow is a study of the LGBTQ+ histories of the city. The queer archive - books, biographical records, poetry, newspapers, photogr...
Ar. Shoumik Desai and Mr. Deekshith Shetty, Assistant Professors at NIA, attended a Training of Teachers in Architecture on Designing for Greater Efficiency (DfGE). The course by International Finance Corporation, organised by Centre for Advanced Research on Building Science and Energy (CARBSE), CEPT Research and Development Foundation, was focused on promoting awareness and understanding of green building among university students, enabling them to design resource-efficient architecture. It was designed to train tutors of higher education institutes to deliver DfGE with high-level educational content to the students at their respective institutions in the domain of climate-friendly energy-e...
Read MoreNitte Institute of Architecture invited prospective students and parents to join a virtual tour of its campus and facilities on 17th July 2021 at 11 AM. This event gave an opportunity for the participants to learn more about the BArch program at NIA.
The open house received 130 registrations from interested candidates and was successfully conducted for students hailing from different locations in the country and abroad. The session was also live streamed on NIA's YouTube channel and can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqzFA5GkJI .
The online session included a presentation from Prof. Vinod Aranha, Ar. Arul Paul and Ar. Palaksha Shetty, regard...
Ms. Navya R, an alumnus who passed out in the year 2020, from Nitte Institute of Architecture (NIA), took part and won the Jury Commendation Award in the Transparence 15.0 South Interface. The project submitted by Ms. Navya to Transparence was the final year Capstone project completed by her.
Transparence is India's largest Architectural Design Competition for aspiring architects and designers. A property of Saint-Gobain India Private Limited - Glass Business in association with Ethos, Transparence has always been the most looked-forward-to event by the budding architectural community for the opportunity it presents and the platform it offers like no other. Over the years, it has ...
Noted architect, Chitra Vishwanath was at Nitte Institute of Architecture on 15th and 16th November 2019 as Juror for the Vertical Studio design presentation. Her constructive feedback was well appreciated by the students, and she commended them for working with models at each stage of the design process....
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