Coordinated By Dr. Vasudha A. Gokhale, Professor of Architecture, BN College of Architecture for Women, Pune.

In a knowledge-based era, research is one of the most important sources of knowledge generation and occupies a critical position in promoting a nation’s prosperity and its citizens’ well-being. It provides insights and new ideas that enrich human understanding of various social, economic and cultural phenomenons, helps in solving practical problems and brings about material improvements via high-tech practices and products. Owing to its interdisciplinary realm embracing the disciplines of art, sociology, technology, economics, climatology and so on, research in architecture has to adopt methods and research designs which would be apt for the particular area of study. These methods therefore are also varied and adapted from various fields. Architectural research often culminates in value judgment and speculation, and diverts from the scientific way of investigation.

Universities, as centers of knowledge production and generation, play a critical role in the national research. Their role in building national research capacity is recently recognized and various initiatives have been taken at various levels to enhance university research, institutional measures to build research capacity. Considering the impact of these expectations on academics, many universities have changed their brief to include research and the production of knowledge as key to their institutional directions. As a result, university research has become highly competitive in a nation’s capacity to deliver knowledge in the world market. Given the prominent role it plays in the overall national research efforts, university research is an indicator of the performance and educational growth in various disciplines where architecture is no exception. This needs training to pursue architectural research that may lead to building research capacity amongst architectural fraternity as a whole.

This course focuses on contemporary concerns and issues associated with research in architecture, both for architectural practice and academics.

It is intended to provide architects with concept /methods for research in architecture and to assist in contextualizing their research in terms of existing knowledge, and varieties of research strategies.

The programme provides a forum for the devising, development and refinement of a rigorous research methodology.

The focus of this training program is research design and methods in architecture. 

Several related topics, which are of relevance to the teachers in particular owing to the mandate of a PhD for teachers, such as pursuing doctoral research, the UGC norms for doctoral research etc. would also be discussed.  

Writing research papers in journals is important to disseminate knowledge hence, topics on presenting and writing up of research report are also included. 

Experts drawn from various fields along with architecture would conduct the sessions. Following is a list of some of the resource persons.

Dr. Ravindra Deshmukh, Professor of Architecture,  BN College of Architecture for Women, Pune.

Dr. Vasudha A. Gokhale, Professor of Architecture,  BN College of Architecture for Women, Pune.

Mr. Yteendra Joshi,

Dr. Abhijit Natu, Lecturer, B.K.P.S. College of Architecture, Pune

Dr. Priyaleen Singh, Professor, S.P.A. New Delhi.

Dr. Gita Sundaresh, Architect, Head, Dept. of Family Resource Management, SNDT, University, Pune.

Dr. Milind Telang, Principal, Sinhagad college of Archtecture, Pune