Challenges of Architecture Education in India

The formal education of architecture in India is start with Sir J.J school of architecture ( Govt. college of arts) Many of Faculty in this, such as  Claude Batley,   were at the same period of European beaux arts and lutyens.  Bombay school had strong technical component in their syllabus ,on same line other school developed in other part of India like Bengal Engineering college in Calcutta , Kalabhavan at Baroda , Delhi polytechnic. After independence Kalabhawan  was converted to faculty of technology and engineering still department of architecture is part of faculty of fine arts in MS university. Unfortunately this connection broken in few years and department of architecture become part of faculty of technology and engineering in early 1960. This create big gap between architecture and other fine arts departments. On same lines architecture department in IIT Kharagpure  was small part of technical institution. Council of architecture was established in 1972 as legal institution on basis of architect act.

There is restlessness in student of architecture about teaching methods and their usefulness in practice after graduation, they seems to have education after passing out from college. The schools of architecture have failed to understand the difference between architecture and profession of architecture in Indian context.  The disproportionate ratio between academic architect and practicing architect faculty in schools of architecture has swelled this problem with time. The relationship of architecture, culture and ideological predisposition in schools, one should know that what we design and what we think are not two different things.