ARCHITECTURE COURSE IS ABOUT TURNING DREAMS INTO REALITY

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ARCHITECTURE COURSE IS ABOUT TURNING DREAMS INTO REALITY

The Course Would Demand Creativity, Logic & Observations Among Other Skills While Giving Diverse Opportunities, Say Experts

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Kochi:  14.08.2021

Architecture is about understanding and enjoying how we want to live and studying an architecture course would open up diverse opportunities for those who are passionate about it, said experts at the webinar held as part of Mission Admission by The Times of India on Friday. The session, which shed light on architecture course and the profession, was powered by Saveetha College of Architecture and Design, Chennai.

Dean of Saveetha College of Architecture and Design Durganand Balsavar said architecture is an interdisciplinary course that demands a lot of creativity, scientific logic and observations among many other skills. He said that the course, which is a combination of art and science, is diverse enough to give opportunities.

“Architecture is more about opening the mind to ideas and thoughts than about blueprints and buildings. Architecture course is a hands-on experience where students will have to work with clay or brick and digital techniques too. It is a combination of futuristic technologies as well as techniques that were prevalent since the time of Mohenjo-daro,” he said.

Noted architect Eugene Pandala said if someone wants to excel in the subject having aptitude is not enough but attitude also matters. “If you enjoy doing creative works, it will be an ideal option. It gives you an opportunity to make your dreams come true. An architecture student should be able to put his dreams into paper and visualize it,” he said.

Kasthurba AK, who heads the department of architecture & planning at NIT-C, said that ‘unlike other engineering professions, an architecture student will be well-equipped with all necessary skill sets they would need. They can take-off right away after completing the course’.