Department of Architecture & Planning
VNIT Nagpur
About · Department of Architecture & Planning
Studio-driven education in architecture and planning, at every scale from a single room to a growing city.
Vision
Designers and planners who move confidently between a single building and a growing city.
Mission
A rigorous, studio-based education that pairs design excellence with the readiness to practice responsibly at every scale.
The department began as a modest architecture program and has grown into a full department spanning architecture and urban & regional planning.
That growth has been shaped by a consistent studio culture — testing ideas through drawing, model-making, and critique — carried forward into contemporary tools and a wider professional landscape.
A department that has grown with the discipline itself.
Studio is the spine of the curriculum, not an elective around it. Design problems are worked iteratively and defended in front of faculty and peers — technical and theoretical coursework runs alongside studio, in the context of a live design problem, not in isolation from one.
Design is taught as a way of reasoning, not a style to imitate.
Work is presented and defended in open review — critique as part of the process, not judgment after it.
Ideas move through repeated cycles of sketch, model, and drawing before a design is resolved.
Studio spaces are shared and worked in together, not alone.
Representative facilities — exact inventory is confirmed department-side.
Dedicated space for every cohort, worked in throughout the semester.
Tools and workspace for physical model-making, study to presentation.
Workstations for drafting, 3D modelling, and visualization.
A full faculty directory is being prepared. Department faculty can be reached through the Contact page in the meantime.
Contact the DepartmentFive years structured around studio practice, not a single elective among many.
Practical fluency in AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino/Grasshopper, built into coursework.
Shared studio space and a critique culture that shapes how you think.
Problem-framing that carries into urban and regional-scale work, not just buildings.
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Reference material spanning the discipline, alongside past studio work.