Wadiyar Centre for Architecture

About Wadiyar Centre for Architecture

Architecture being a creative field, the education imparted is entirely dependent on the teacher, their vision and creative teaching methods. Teachers with a passion for the subject and a vision to create and impart quality architectural education that benchmarks a new paradigm for the emerging architects. The Trustees in addition to setting up the institution will also be teaching, making Wadiyar Centre for Architecture the first institution in the country to be established and run by professionals in the field.

Wadiyar Centre for Architecture wasset ups in 2015, under the approval and guidelines the Council of Architecture, New Delhi, a statutory body for Architecture in India.  A 5-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Architecture degree will be offered under the aegis of the Visweswaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka

wadiyar centre for architecture is a collaboration of two educational trusts.  Sri JayachamarajaUrsu Education Trust (SJUET), Mysuru Design Foundation for Study, Education and Research (Design Foster), Bengaluru

Some features of the program include

• The primary guiding principle of the program is to make significant contributions in the field of architectural education within a framework of professional integrity and ethics in a manner consistent with academic and institutional autonomy and excellence, social equity and humane values. The School will foster an inter-professional; inter disciplinary approach to architectural education, practice and research.
• The program will focus on sensitizing and giving the students a firm grounding in theoretical thinking, heritage of the built environment, contextual and socially appropriate architecture.
• A method of teaching and learning that embodies a multiplicity of learning possibilities, helping the students bridge the gap between academics and the profession.
• The focus of education at the Wadiyar Centre for Architecture will be highlighting that architecture is not about only innovating, but to be of consequence and critical value to the settlement and society
• Wadiyar Centre for Architecture has set up an autonomous Academic Council consisting of eminent professionals and academicians other than the trustees to form guidelines and ensure creation of an academic program beyond the guiding principles of the existing University syllabi.