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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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Material compositions

Material and Phenomenon
Radha Iyer, 2019


This thesis aspires to understand the idea of materiality and the experience that a material produces through its physical properties. Material was never distinct from its emotion in history where people did not disassociate the phenomenological properties of materials with their physical properties and this is a fundamental split that modernity brings to us. However, the idea of material and its compositions does not just limit to the complimenting nature of different materials coming together. As a symbolic expression, it becomes a medium through which conceptions of people, their living and environment are seen to constantly alter and evolve. Just like different musical notes amalgamate to create a symphony, different materials attempt to weave together to create a composition. With an attempt to open out all these parameters, this thesis is titled as ‘material compositions’. This study decides to understand the manifestation of materiality in its experience through architecture colleges because these are places where we are made aware of our consciousness, and our bodies are well sensitized towards the external environment. The argument generated here as a whole tries to question configurations or associations for the design of a space and re- build associations for improved design that could be equally effective.




Read also under ‘Material and Phenomenon’:

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Architecture of shaded spaces

Material and Phenomenon
Dirgh Kadakia, 2019
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The space of detail

Material and Phenomenon
Gaurav Edwankar, 2019  
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