In June this year, Padora was appointed as dean of Faculty of Architecture at CEPT Ahmedabad, whose founder-director was Padma Vibhushan and Pritzker Prize-winning architect BV Doshi. “The idea that practice need not be divorced from academia is what I’m really interested in
1. IIT Kharagpur
One of the pioneering architecture departments in India, the Department of Architecture here was conceived for ensuring a holistic integration of the development of science and technology. This architecture department was the first of its kind in the IIT system in 1952 with the undergraduate course in architecture. Now it offers post-graduate and even doctoral degrees in the field. Students need to qualify JEE Advanced AAT examination for admission to this course.
2. IIT Roorkee
With a state of the art lab on Net Zero Emissions, set up under the INDO-UK program as its latest addition in the architecture department, IIT Roorkee is well-equipped with modern technology. For advanced research, the college has labs such as Virtual Reality Lab, SPARSH (Spatial Planning research), Urban Dynamics Lab, Civic Design Lab etc. The institute takes very special care in selecting students for admission to its various programs with the objective of providing technical education