Category: Krvia Academics

  • KRVIA MASTERS STUDIO: 2011

    KRVIA MASTER’S STUDIO JURY The jury for both the semester (I & III) happened to be on the same day. It’s a good idea to have the two semester jury on same day as an event where we can see the work collectively and juror also can have larger & collective canvas to react to.…

  • URBAN DESIGN THESIS:2011

    The master thesis seems to have been struggling to built argument ever since, however Ekta’s thesis showed some greater possibilities of research and argument for future. Her work showed some close relation with how an Urban Designer operates, intervenes and conceptualize within the urban design framework. Her work may not be the best we can…

  • THESIS JURY:2011

      Thesis quality over last five years have improved tremendously as nature of inquiries across the board are above average. It is perhaps becoming difficult to identify the best one. Along with the quality of inquiry, the quality of drawings have reached its best level as ever. I have never seen such quality of drawings…

  • KRVIA THESIS JURY 2010

    The jury performances are always remain inadequate, when one look at only final product. However this year jury managed to raise that queries to level of acceptability. The overall work has been satisfactory however quality of design queries vs quality of architecture has alway been uncomfortable. THE INCIDENTAL URBANISM DIAGRAMATIC URBANISM RECIPORCAL URBANISM HYBIRD URBANISM…

  • MASTER’ JURY

    The jury went with few notes as i began to question many things that may bring the discourse of abstraction in center. The ideal of representation & concreteness are duality within which entire idea of manifestation oscillates. The notion of academics is real vs real than perhaps we are limited by choices but if real…

  • MASTERS THESIS: 2009

    I was once told by my professor when discussing about research at post graduate level… its about what not to do than what to do.. he cited an example that imagine that Mies had to design building with climatic concern… wouldn’t that be disaster,” he could design most adorable & fragile architecture because he could…

  • COMMON MINIMUM PRGRAM=3+1+1

    Five years back when UPA framed the CPM with CPM, its derived from two contradictory forces. One was to restrained while other was to expand globally. The one was right while other was non-conformist. It builds excuses for not taking any action on crucial issues & finding excuses for new program. Well, the meeting on…

  • 3×3 IMPASSE

    Five year old boy was much influenced by his father imagination of locomotive & fast moving machines. Boy would take up as keen interest on understanding of moving machines, from cars to aero planes. He began to understand technical aspects slowly, & would identify by sheer sound of machine. He took up drawing of machine…

  • KRVIA ANNUAL-2008

    The annual event on house & housing was partly successful, since it gave chance to each faculty to speak on related issues. However the failure was perhaps on part of defining the limitation or scope of the topic, since KRVIA being design school. The majority of presentation were hinging on idea at policy level which…