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Designed as a comprehensive resource on spatial thinking, experimental pedagogy, and academic practices, this archive serves as a record for reference and critical analysis. 

More than a traditional institutional repository, it is envisioned as an "Archive of Ideas," structured to mirror the conceptual and intellectual framework of SEA. The platform captures specific engagements, explorations, and pedagogical reorientations, expressing the school's distinct set of practices constituted by its students and teachers. 

The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a  documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.


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Architecture of Watching

Claims and its Spatialities
Riya Parekh, 2018


The thesis dissertation is an investigation on the acts of watching and its effects on the surrounding built environment, human body, the usage of space and the actors contributing to this act. It attempts to understand how the act of watching contributes to architectural built form and how configuration of form structure modes of seeing. The thesis is an exploration of the built environment that promotes structures of watching. In the course of understanding this structure, the book explores various edges in my neighbourhood, their character and the visual connection that is established between the edge and the street. The study establishes relations between edge conditions of the built form with structures of watching. It provides conditions in which built form lends itself towards the act of watching.



Read also under ‘Claims and its Spatialities’:


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The claims of everyday street



Claims and its Spatialities

Abhilasha Ambhire, 2021

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Mumbai's street religiosities: spatial negotiations and making of public space

Claims and its Spatialities
Karan Dalal, 2018

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Land tenure dynamics and built form


Claims and its Spatialities
Nidhi Mehta, 2021

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Architecture of mass living | retelling of tenurial relationships


Claims and its Spatialities
Ruchita Sarvaiya, 2021

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Humanising infrastructure: a study of transit related infrastructure in Mumbai

Claims and its Spatialities
Shrushti Jain, 2018

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Objects of the street: understanding articulation of street-space through furniture

Claims and its Spatialities
Vidhi Gandhi, 2018

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