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COURSE STRUCTURE

TWO YEARSFULL-TIME DEGREE COURSE

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

(2019 Pattern)

This is a full-timepostgraduateMasters’ Degree course. Affiliated to the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) and approved by the Council of Architecture, New Delhi (COA) &The Directorate of Technical Education, Govt .of Maharashtra. The structure of the Course for the Master of Architectural Conservation is as mentioned below.

PREAMBLE:

The cultural resources of India are vast and diverse. Built heritage is one of the important and huge components of cultural resources and needs careful attention. Conservation practices that have evolved from monument conservation today focus on the cultural landscape. It is acomprehensive term stretching the boundaries of conservation practices to include diverse fields.

Heritage conservation practices are multi-disciplinary. Hence, the training in conservation extends beyond the existing architectural curriculum in terms of the necessity of including interdisciplinary subjects from various fields. The nature of conservation projects varies in terms of scale and expertise and is becoming case-specific.

The focus on living heritage brings many related fields into the realm of conservation practices. The curriculum should equip the conservation professional with technical as well as managerial skills. His role ranges from a conservation architect, conservation planner, and heritage manager with a sound philosophical base.

The proposed curriculum tries to address these demands of conservation practices to produce conservation experts capable of taking the emerging challenges in the field. It also tries to build a regional database of cultural resources through academic exercises.

The curriculum stresses the need for sound exposure to the students of the current conservation practices by engaging them in live projects to make them aware of the nuances of conservation projects.

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Architectural Conservation is a multi-disciplinary stream that aims at training architects in tackling conservation issues at the planning level, interpreting historyin the modern context, dealing with structural issues, and documentationcultural and built heritage.

Sinhgad College of Architecture offers two years full years Masters’s Coursein Architectural Conservation. The Course train Architects in structural conservation, conservation planning, Art Conservation, and the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline.

The faculty consists ofprominent professionals from multiple disciplines like conservation, archaeology, sociology, Art History, and Anthropology. The Department carries out extensive research and documentation of heritage and works on various types of heritage conservation projects.

1. FIRST-YEAR M.ARCH (A.C.)

SEMESTER – I