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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 mass living | Re-telling of tenurial relationships

Claims and its Spatialities
Ruchita Sarvaiya, 2021


What is the architecture of mass living in small cities, located on the frontiers of metropolitan cities? This question is placed in the context of emerging built forms of mass living, which unfolds logistics of land tenure and property rights. Frontier here refers to a place which is contested and is in the process of settling. People living in contested settlements invest and consolidate their houses despite the blurry form of tenure security. The settlement is formed from a mosaic of built and unbuilt spaces. This mosaic thickens the security of tenure.Because access and time spent on these housing resources contributes to the perceptions of tenure security. There lies complexities of ownership which allows the frontier to be porous, this allows many networks to participate and access the city. The occupancy of informal settlement is heterogeneous if one looks into the pattern of tenure security. Where there is no longer the so-called ”disciplined ways of living”.

The public debate on housing remains imprisoned in the realm of tenure security, property rights and hardly touches on the idea of the process of becoming. This thesis intends to  open up the “Spatiality of perceived security” irrespective of tenure security by mapping out the relationships of builtform and life in tungareshwar, a settlement  in Vasai-Virar, a small city on the frontier of Mumbai’s, next to the industrial context, which has series of tenure (long-short rental, on lease, informal ownership, formal ownership).



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 watching



Claims and its Spatialities
Riya Parekh, 2018

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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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