Career Selection-A Basic Insight: Part 22

By: Satyendra Kumar Singh, Editor-ICN

ARCHITECTURE

The growth of the country is due to infrastructure and vice-versa. It all can happen by the support of architecture. The high-end buildings, bridges, skyscrapers etc are just to name a few. However, it also includes specialized fields such as urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture, building sciences, building material engineering and project management. The demand of the day is to make the architecture is such a manner that it looks artistic and aesthetic as well.

Apart from supervising the construction, it is important for the Architect to have negotiation skills. An architect needs to meet the clients and finalise the designs. Hard work and team management are the success mantra for this profile.

Courses

The major courses in Architecture are:

  1. Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Architecture Engineering
  2. Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Architecture Engineering
  3. Diploma in Architecture Assistantship
  4. Diploma in Architecture Engineering
  5. Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
  6. Master of Philosophy in Architecture Engineering
  7. Master of Technology in Architecture Engineering
  8. Master of Technology in Town & Country Planning
  9. Ph.D in Architecture

Institutes

Some of the famous and highly sought colleges in India (in alphabetical sorted order) are:

  1. Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh
  2. College of Architecture, Goa
  3. Government College of Architecture & Sculpture, Mamallapuram
  4. Government College of Architecture, Lucknow
  5. Government Engineering College, Trichur
  6. India Education Society’s College of Architecture, Mumbai
  7. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
  8. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  9. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
  10. Marathwada Mitra Mandal College of Architecture, Pune
  11. National Institute of Technology or NITs
  12. School of Architecture & Planning, Anna University, Chennai
  13. School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi
  14. Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai

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