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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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Tracing urban metropolis: the regulatory frameworks and city norms

Regulation of Housing; Practices of Home-Making
Smit Lakkad, 2022


The city of Mumbai is on the verge of another paradigmatic shift in the ways its urban form will be produced and negotiated. that will have serious implications on livability and the working of the city. One of the key actors in this shift will be the development control regulations(DCR) and the town planning schemes. This study intends to offer key insights into the history of development plans and regulations in the city, and their impact on the built form of the city and thus affecting the life living in the city. From a historical perspective the study intends to point to some of the key concerns for the consideration for Mumbai's DCR in the future.

The study is structured majorly in broad chronological phrases between the emergence of the modern ideas of town planning as a result of the plague of 1886, the period of the first development plan of 1964, the second development plan of 1991, and the third one of 2014 and our notes on pointing towards the emerging tendencies in the development of the city. Each section is further organised with the analytical illustrations of respective case studies. The concluding section offers projections and learnings of all these phases of building regulation in the city and points toward the lurking challenges shortly for the architects, planners, and citizens of the city.



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Street as a carnival


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