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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 as a Living Reef

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Rishab Debnath, 2025


This thesis explores the coral reef not as a biological curiosity but as a living architecture, a system where growth, form and environment exist in continuous dialogue. Through an architect’s lens, the reef becomes a model for understanding how spatial and structural systems can adapt, regenerate, and coexist within ecological constraints.

The research investigates the morpho-ecological systems that allow coral reefs to thrive, from the microscopic intelligence of the coral polyp and skeleton, to the morphological logic shaped by environmental forces, to the fragmental propagation that transforms destruction into renewal. These processes are analysed not for replication but for translation, to extract architectural principles of adaptability, continuity, and resilience.

Drawing from scientific literature, ecological studies, and diagrammatic analysis, the thesis constructs an interpretive framework that reads the reef as an evolving architecture of relationships. It argues that architecture, like the reef, can move beyond static form making toward systems that grow, respond, and renew themselves through time.

Ultimately, the coral reef becomes both metaphor and method, a way of reimagining architecture as a living, regenerative entity, capable of enduring not through permanence, but through its ability to transform and adapt.



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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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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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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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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