From HOD Desk

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Digital technology in architecture is necessary and unavoidable, given its ubiquity and widespread effects on architectural practices. Digital Architecture helps practicing architects and designers to rethink the design process and use technology to embrace the emergent practice of non-standard architecture.

The introduction of digital fabrication also enabled architects to produce scale models of their designs using processes and techniques identical to those used in the industry. This shall enhance the skills of the students in spatial thinking and takes their designs in a new direction. Architecture as a built reality maintains a close relationship to the modes and techniques of representation. The advent of digital software has released a unique potential that can lead to a significant rethinking, re-imaging and reconfiguration of the built environment. Given the fact that this is a relatively new area of architectural investigation within both the academic and the professional context, architects are to be given an opportunity to be at the forefront of interrogation in this field. There is a need for a design-based professional program that critically explores current advancements in design production and thinking to postulate new forms of urbanism and architectural spaces.

This department seeks to explore the scope of digital architecture for architectural fraternity to develop an advanced professional capacity in digital design and production which develop an understanding of the relationship of this capacity to other areas. It is aimed to rethink the role of architecture in India in relation to advancements in culture, theory, technology and design in today’s world.

Prof. Dhruv Chandwania

HOD, Dept of Digital Architecture,

BNCA, Pune.