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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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Publicness of research ‘space’

Institution and Typology
Parth Solanki, 2021


Nowadays there are no scientific research spaces that share the knowledge generated by it to the public directly. The knowledge is highly filtered and censored. This thesis explores why this disconnect happened and how it affects the spatiality of the research spaces.  What is the relationship between research space and the public?  This thesis starts with theoretical readings which talk about concepts that become the lens of the study. The thesis expands these concepts to become a framework to analyze five different knowledge-producing spaces (observatories)  to identify spatial elements. These five spaces are chosen to focus on three actors- the public, the researchers, and the apparatus and what is their relationship with each other? As science and technology advanced, the world realized that knowledge is infinite and always growing and can be commodified to generate income. The thesis concludes by identifying how there are various factors that led to spatial and programmatic shifts in the research spaces. These shifts have led to the emergence of new kinds of public spaces like planetariums and science centers. The thesis opens up questions to rethink research spaces in a way to engage more public. The new spatialities like the planetariums or science centers that are emerging can be rethought to be more integrated with the research spaces.



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Architecture of Jain religious institutions


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Urban temples: synthesis of emerging worship spaces in urban environment

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Learning ecologies and spatial form: the case of municipal schools in G (S) ward Mumbai


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