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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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[image]ing a home: studying the relationship between space and its photographs

In other mediums
Neel Bothara, 2024


"The primitive notion of the efficacy of images presumes that images possess the qualities of real things, but our inclination is to attribute to real things the qualities of an image." (Sontag, 1977)

Home, as a personal space of belonging and comfort, is shaped by memories, physical structure, and cultural ideals. It reflects personal values, social norms, and cultural meanings, which are projected into the space, its organisation, structuring, and experience. In today's visually driven culture, the “image world” profoundly influences this definition. The thesis asks how has architectural representation through the photographic image shaped spatial language and aspirations within the contemporary imagination of the home? It looks at the mechanics of the photographic image in producing for us specific spatial and lifestyle idealisations, situating ‘home’ within an image world.

The study is structured in three parts. The first, Making Images, examines the technical and experiential processes in architectural photography, from compositional choices to stylistic considerations, revealing how these elements work together to ‘frame’ a pristine, aspirational view of space. The second part, Reading Images, critically engages with three well published residential projects, decrypting the ways in which these images ‘frame’ the space of home and contribute to a constructed lens of viewing it. Thirdly, Remaking Images, documents how these framed images become references within design processes, exploring the extent to which images guide material choices, spatial vocabulary, and the overall design language of the home forming an image continuity cycle.

The research concludes by asking "how to frame," building on Bernard Cache’s theory in Earth Moves, where he describes architecture as “the art of the frame,” to explore how architectural representation should frame images and how architecture should frame space.






Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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Spatialities of everyday heritage


Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home

Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory

Memory and Belonging
Anika Pugalia, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort

Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging

Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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