ARCH Academy of Design (ARCH)

The Bachelor of Design is a professional degree program for students who wish to work towards improving the inhabited spaces through experimental, experiential, and informed design processes. The program teaches students to imagine, propose, test and refine their ideas about how to live and dwell in the contemporary world and trains students in the knowledge systems that help anticipate changes in the future built environments (from domestic to urban scale). The program uniquely places student-centred inquiry as the core learning, through a sequential studio sequence culminating in a customized capstone design project. These courses are taught by internationally-trained design professors. The professional practice courses include new forms of social and technical knowledge: diversity, sustainability, digital representations and professional ethics. Other features of the program comprise diverse, customizable electives, a flexible system of minors in multiple subjects taught across schools within the university. This is a program for students with ambition, imagination and curiosity who wish to imagine and lead the design of a better world, and wishes to become knowledgeable and influential future design professions.

At present, the B.Des. Program offers following pathways after a common foundation year.

A fundamental aspect of being is incumbent upon inhabiting, itself a continuous and fluid practice. To inhabit means to leave traces – individually or as a collective – through objects, materials, memories and practices, within and without our spaces of living, working and playing, all of which intimately intersect with issues of identity, class, caste, gender, communities, ecologies, social justice, technologies, legalities, and economics, to name a few. How do you, as a future design professional, embed yourself within such a multiplicity of narratives, and craft a new narrative?

The 4 year (Foundation + 3) Interior Design pathway at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture situates itself within this terrain to train and develop you into an industry-ready professional who is critical, and entrepreneurial; who is globally competitive but locally embedded; who is invested in making and able to think on your feet; who exercises empathy and practices judiciously across diverse scales and media. The built-environment, which undergoes constant adaptive re-use, becomes your laboratory.

Though rigorous, this interdisciplinary programme is unique for several reasons. For one, we follow a learner-centric philosophy, and thus, the programme is designed around your interests, allowing you simultaneous lateral and vertical progression. Next, it is the only design programme in the country which has a major and a minor component. The major forms your focus and primary area of study, whereas the minor allows you to strengthen your interests and skills. Lastly, work experience is not only built into the programme, it forms our very bedrock. This is achieved, apart from mandatory internships, by bringing live projects and clients into the studio, thus ensuring seamless integration into your chosen industry upon graduating.

Master classes, workshops and invited talks from a variety of practices further inform the course of study.

The Interior Design Pathway allows you to apply current practices of the industry through, though not limited to, the following

• Spatial Design
• Building Services
• Mapping Interior/ Exterior Environments and Landscapes
• Body and Perception
• Materials and Styles
• Color and Texture
• Objects, Equipment and Affordances
• Lighting
• Social Design and Collaborative Working
• Gender and Space
• Ecologies and Sustainable Practices
• Field Notes and Ethnographies
• Indigenous Craft Practices
• Specifications and Codes
• Ethics and Professional Practices

After Graduation:

Employment: Interior Architect, Independent Researcher, Design Educator, Scenographer, Furniture Designer, Lighting Designer, Product Designer, Marketing and Sales, Hospitality consultant, Sustainable interiors consultant, Landscape Designer, Building Pathologist, Systems Designer, Media Visualizer, Curatorial Consultant, Community Designer, User Experience Designer, Communication Designer, Interior Journalist, Illustrator, Photographer, Project Manager, amongst others.

Post-Graduate Studies: Graduating students of the program can apply to a variety of post-graduate programmes, both nationally and internationally, in and not limited to Interior Design Studies, Architectural Studies, Lighting Design studies, Design and Technology Studies, Textiles Design, Product Design, Production Design, Industrial Design, Transdisciplinary design studies, Urban Ecologies Studies, Project Management, Business Studies, Liberal Arts, Legal Studies, Government and Political Studies, Community Planning, Environment and Sustainability Studies, Journalism and Communication, Economics and Policy Studies amongst others.

The Urban and Community Pathway is designed to give you tools to engage with cities and with communities, as objects, as people, as metaphor, as relationships, as networks, and as organisms. This pathway empowers you to enhance your experience of cities and lives of communities by regulating land use and infrastructure, designing sustainable waste management or developing finance packages for cities and communities. You ensure that all members of the community are involved and represented in the decision-making processes. You work intimately to create political, social and economic opportunities for cities and communities across the globe.

The pathway provides students with a variety of perspectives by drawing its faculty from a wide spectrum of academic and operational expertise, ranging from history, sociology, engineering, architecture, law, arts, geography, economics, anthropology among others.

The Urban & Community Pathway provides you with essential and fundamental skills to work within the development sector, economic and social systems, building industry, infrastructure and planning, including but not limited to:

• Society & Health
• Land: Perceptions; prejudices and politics
• Disaster risk reduction of communities
• Development & Sustainability
• Audits and Assessments
• Margins & Marginality
• Housing Planning and Policy
• Infrastructure, Technology & Cities
• Urban Economics & Ecologies
• Migration and Spatial Planning
• Collectivises, networks and relatedness
• Media and Community
• Food & Community
• Law, Governance and Community Planning

After Graduation:

Employment: Some of the areas you could be working in include, but are not limited to: City Planning, Environmental Assessment, Road Safety & Urban Transport, Air Quality, Energy studies, Geoinformatics, Sustainable Infrastructure, Urban Governance, Law and Policy Studies, development planners, policy researchers, social marketers, financial managers, CSR, transport planners, public health managers, educators, surveyors, journalists and media professionals, social workers, environmental impact analysts, construction managers, community developers.

Post-Graduate Studies: Students graduating from the program become eligible for entry into Master's Degree programs across the world in development studies, governance and policy studies, architecture, planning and regional studies, urban and landscape design, project and construction management media studies, sustainability studies, ecology and environmental studies, business management financial.

Min. Eligibility: Students should have successfully completed their XII standard (CBSE, ISC, State Boards, IB, Cambridge, and other Government Recognized Boards).
Students completing grade 12th in 2022 can also apply.

For Admission into B.Des. program: Applicants are selected through a holistic admissions process conducted over three rounds based on a personal statement, supplemental application, X and XII Grade Marks, Faculty Interview. etc. The following minimum scores are required to receive an invitation for Personal Interview & Portfolio Review.

Results required- To get call for interview & portfolio, you must score 50% marks in JCAT Part A.

Fee: Tuition Fee- Rs. 3.0 Lakh per year & Hostel Fee- Rs. 2.76 Lakh per year

*The tuition fee is subject to an increase of up to ten percent (10%) every year.
**The food, accommodation, and laundry charges are subject to an increase of up to ten percent (10%) every year

The Bachelors of Architecture Program at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture (JSAA) is a five-year program in architecture which prepares you for a career as a licensed architect in India. The unique program at JSAA is divided into two parts; the Major and the Minor. In the Major you learn about material and making, about design thinking. You explore the social, historical, political, economic and technological interfaces of architecture. The major allows you to participate in exchange studios and collaborative works with students from some of the best schools in architecture such as AAP (Cornell), DAAP (University of Cincinnati), Bartlett (University College of London). The program places you in multiple internships at leading firms where you gain work experience, learn from and interact with the best architects in India and the world.

In addition to the Major, the program at the JSAA also allows you to choose one minor area of study. The minor areas of study are carefully designed to provide you with additional skillsets which no other program of architecture in the country provides. As a result, you emerge as an architect with a unique combination of abilities which can be applied across multiple industries and sectors.

After Graduation

Employment: The graduating students from the B. Arch. program become licensed architects in India. They can enter the workforce directly as self-employed Architects and/or work in firms and the construction industry as architects.

Postgraduate Studies: Students graduating from the B. Arch. Program become eligible for entry in Master degree programs across the world in Architecture; Planning and Regional Studies; Urban and ​Landscape Design; Project and Construction Management, to name a few.

No candidate shall be admitted to architecture course unless he has passed an examination at the end of the 10+2 scheme of examination with at least 50 per cent. aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and also at least 50 per cent. marks in aggregate of the 10+2 level examination or passed 10+3 Diploma Examination with Mathematics as compulsory subject with at least 50 per cent. marks in aggregate.

The BA (Hons.) in Built Environment Studies at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture is a unique 3 + 1 (fellowship year option) program in the country. This program is especially designed for students who are interested in building and maintaining our cities, towns, infrastructure and communities from a humanistic and social scientific background. Through courses in this program you learn about the fundamentals of design & making our cities, towns infrastructure and communities in addition to learning law, policy, environmental issues, question of economics, technology, sustainability and ecology; all of which prepare you for becoming active participants in making the Built Environment of the future. Your “classrooms” are live cases and projects where you work with experts to learn how design, policy and law and go hand in hand to make buildings, cities, infrastructure to secure development that is just and equitable for communities. You visit and intern in firms that work globally in areas of housing, urban development, community design and development, conservation and heritage management, landscape design, sustainable development to develop your own insights into the variety of people who work on the Built Environment. You also avail of many exchange opportunities with similar programs in some of the top schools of design globally.

At present, the program, offers two pathways that are available to students after a common foundation year. These are

The Architectural Studies program, is geared towards students who are especially keen to embark on a career of engaging with the built environment from the point of view of nature, culture, history, politics and society. The program combines course from design and the liberal arts to produce professionals who are committed to understanding and making our built environment just, safe and equitable. Graduate of this program would be part of a team of professionals who ensure that building designs and construction happens in a manner that is historically sensitive, contextually appropriate and both pleasing and sensitive to the needs of its inhabitants

The Architectural Studies provides you with the essential knowledge base and fundamental skills required to work as designer as well as a consultant within the many companies and sectors of the architectural, heritage and Conservation industry. Courses include but are not limited to,

• Building Design
• Sustainability
• Environment and Ecology
• Legality and the Built Environment
• Society and Culture
• Built Environment and Its Histories
• Gender and Design

After Graduation:

Employment: After graduating from the Architectural studies pathway, students can enter the workforce directly as Green Building Consultants; Heritage and Conservation manager; Landscape designers; Project Managers and Real Estate Developers; Museum curators; Architectural Historians and Critics etc.

Post-Graduate Studies: Students graduating from the program (fellowship year option) become eligible for entry into Master’s Degree program across the world in Architecture; Planning and Regional Studies; Urban and Landscape Design; Project and Construction Management, to name a few.

Graduating Students of the program (3 yr option) become eligible for Master’s degree program in Development Studies, Policy Studies; Ecology and Environment Studies; Development Studies etc.

Min. Eligibility: Students should have successfully completed their XII standard (CBSE, ISC, State Boards, IB, Cambridge, and other Government Recognized Boards).Students completing grade 12th in 2022 can also apply.

Tuition and Hostel Fee: The Tuition fee* Rs. -3.5 Lakh per year & Hostel Fee**- Rs. 2.76 Lakh per year

*The tuition fee is subject to an increase of up to ten percent (10%) every year.
**The food, accommodation, and laundry charges are subject to an increase of up to ten percent (10%) every year