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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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SETTLEMENT STUDIES





Under the settlement studies programme, different human habitations are visited in the first three years. These courses are formulated with broadly three objectives - first, to train students into undertaking organised field-work, collect data and undertake analysis of such data to make inferences and conclusions; second, to develop in students an interest and orientation towards looking at the field as a source of knowledge and of life; and lastly, to sharpen the abilities of students to sense the field using their own senses as well as their analytical capacities.

At SEA field visits are also undertaken with a purpose of adding new knowledge to the field of architecture. One of the most important dimensions of field visits at SEA is that the field is used to interrogate oneself - where one asks questions about oneself via the field. Such an approach locates the locus of difference within the self, instead of the object outside. The questions are geared towards interrogating the assumption of one’s “normal” and ways in which certain spatialities get conceived within the mind. The field is thus a site to encounter the self through a process of defamiliarization.




ORIENTATIONFORM THROUGH DRAWINGSMATERIAL SYSTEMSEXPERIENCING FORM

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWSSPATIAL SYNTAXBUILDING TYPOLOGIESBUILDING SYSTEMS

WHAT IS GENEOLOGYPHENOMENOLOGY OF DETAILSMASS INHABITATIONMAKING SPATIAL ARGUMENTS