KRVIA Student Community

KRVIA Masters + Under graduate
The ENSAS (Strasbourg National School of Architecture) + KRVIA exchange program that focuses on Complex densities as a comparative study of urban villages in Mumbai and Strasbourg France began its first leg with a weekly online course. The second leg and third leg of the course are on-site studies in Mumbai and France in the months of November and January. Sixteen students from France and twenty students from Mumbai will be participating in this exchange. Students from KRVIA are from the third, fourth, fifth-year, and first & second-year masters programs.

KRVIA Masters guest lecture - 'Contextualizing Urban Design at Multiple Scales, A Human-centric approach' by Mahesh Waghmare and Sarfaraz Momin, from Studio POD. Lecture to be held on 4th October Wednesday at 11.00 am.

KRVIA Masters guest lecture - 'Contextualizing Urban Design at Multiple Scales, A Human-centric approach' by Mahesh Waghmare and Sarfaraz Momin, from Studio POD. Lecture to be held on 4th October Wednesday at 11.00 am.

KRVIA Masters first year Archaeology field day trip was organised on the 2nd October, with faculty archaeologist Andre Baptista at Our lady of Grace Church, Sopara Stupa, chakreshwar mandir, holy cross church Nirmal, Adi Shankaracharya Mandir and Vasai Fort.
The visit addressed the shaping of socio-cultural spaces of Vasai/Sopara through integrated historical and cultural geographies.

IDEAtlas Workshop - Mumbai Living Lab
Krvia Masters Program in collaboration with ITC, University of Twente hosted the first interactive workshop for the IDEAtlas project. The primary objective of IDEAtlasis to develop, implement, validate and showcase advanced AI-based
methods to automatically map and characterize the spatial extent of slums from Earth Observation
(EO) data. This will support national and local governments as well as civil society to monitor progress
on SDG indicator 11.1.1 on the proportion of the urban population living in slums, informal
settlements or inadequate housing.
Multiple experts were invited to be part of the workshop to discuss the ideas of Informal settlement mapping through focused group discussions. Each group summarized the findings from the discussion which faciltated exchange of ideas and thoughts between groups, students and facilitators.

Expert guests -
Mansi Sachdev, SDG Monitoring officer, UN Habitat
Soni Vadhva, Sociologist, Ulhas Nagar Barracks
Kedarnath Ghorpade, Ex-Planner MMRDA
Seema Redkar, Ex Social Development Officer - BMC
Smruti Jukur Johari, SPARC
Siddhi Joshi, Basera
Mandar Athavle, Basera
Ketaki Bhadgaonkar, Bombay 61 Studio
Jai Bhadgaonkar, Bombay 61 Studio
Priam Pillai, Mahatma Education Society’s Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science
Aneeruddha Paul, KRVIA
Abhijeet Ekbote, GIS Expert

KRVIA Post-Graduate Program

The Masters in Urban Design and Architectural & Urban Conservation commence the academic program on the 7th of August 2023 with a workshop entitled 'What is Urban?'

A 2-day Design Esquisse was organized for all the students of KRVIA. Teams of 4 and 5 were made across batches. Swipe to see the winners.

1st position - Flux Machina
2nd position - Evocative Monolith
3rd position - Mosaic CoWorkGrid

Discursive meeting on collaborative work between KRVIA & UM with Prof Rodolphe el-Khoury, Dean of School of Architecture @ University of Miami.
Prof Rudolphe is also an author of book titled " Shaping the City".

Collaborative meeting of KRVIA + University of Florida with David Rifkind (Left) Director, Bradley Walters (Right), Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at School of Architecture, UF.

and KRVIA

Join us for
Future for the Modern Past: Heritage-led Development for IIM Ahmedabad Confirmation
Streaming live now on ICOMOS India facebook

Sanaeya Vandrewala (Program Coordinator Post Graduate Program): Anchor
Manoj Parmar(Director KRVIA): KRVIA’s engagement with 20C Heritage and Conservation Practice

Semester 4 Exhibition Invite

Reading Alwar.
A documentation & regional study.
This year the Semester 4 studio locates itself in the erstwhile princely state of Alwar where students documented 8 nodes along an axis in the city. The study deploys various tools of documentation in the field, to study architectural objects and their relationships to region and city through history. The study was conducted to build a holistic understanding of material, history, urban form, and ecology.

10th - 15th April, 2023
9.30 AM - 3.00 PM
AV 1, KRVIA
Vidyanidhi Marg
JVPD Scheme

Please do visit the exhibition!

Students and faculty Dita Leyh, Michael de Saldanha and Poonam Choudhary from the Darmstadt University, Germany were visiting the KRVIA as part of an exchange programme with the Masters programme last week.