RANGANATHAN

ARCHITECTURE COLLEGE

GUIDE TO
ARCHITECTURAL
THESIS
2022

Ar. Kirubasankar N, M. Arch.,

Professor-Head of the Department
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AR 8081 – THESIS

OBJECTIVES
To ensure consolidation and application of the knowledge gained in preceding years of the
programme in the context of a design project of the student’s choice.
To enable addressing of specific projects through key identified issues inherent in the project
or to enable development of thought processes in specific areas/aspects into a project.
To facilitate development of ability to complete and handle projects independently as a
precursor to professional life.

CONTENT
Students should choose a topic of their choice in terms of design potential and/ or idea
exploration to be taken up for completion. The topic could be project based with specific
areas of study/ approach or study/ approach based leading to a project. If the latter, care
should be taken to choose topics that can lead to sufficient architectural design component.
Students should submit the topic for approval with a rough outline of the nature of the
project, area of interest, study and design scope, challenges, possible case studies,
methodology and outcome.

The areas of study/research/design can include any of the broad areas of the discipline,

 Contemporary needs of society,

 History
 Theory
 Sustainability
 Structural or service oriented design
 Projects that involve complex planning and integration of several aspects
 Appropriate architecture
 Urban design
 Contemporary processes
 Social housing
 Urban oriented architectural design
 Conservation oriented architectural design, etc.

The progress of work will be reviewed periodically throughout the semester. At the end
of the semester, students should submit the final thesis project for the viva voce exam. The
final submission will comprise of study sheets, optional study models, design approach
sheets, optional design process models, design presentation sheets, final model, detailed
drawings of an important part of the project, project report summarizing the entire
thesis work and soft copy of all the work.
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OUTCOME

Skill, knowledge and expertise in the domain of architectural design.

Ability to handle a major architectural project independently through all stages.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Linda Grant and David Wang, 'Architectural Research Methods', John Wiley & Sons,
2002.
2. Joseph De Chiara, Michael J Crosbie, 'Time Saver Standards for Building Types', McGraw
Hill Professional, 2001.

REFERENCES

1. Stephen A. Kliment, Editor 'Building Type Basics' Series, Wiley.

2. Igor Marjanović, Katerina Rüedi Ray,Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, 'The Portfolio - An
Architecture Student's Handbook', Routledge, 2003.
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SELECTION PARAMETERS FOR ARCHITECTURAL THESIS

We faculties of RAC would like to suggest few parameters which should be considered
before selecting a Thesis topic,

 Foremost parameter you should consider is to find your field of interest on which you
want to build your career in Architecture. So first find your interest on which you
want do a detailed exploration and thus helps you to frame your Thesis topic.
 The next parameter is you should consider the trending building typologies which are
globally developing and needed for the society.
 Don’t take a simplest topic, because simplest topics will always have less scope. So
better chose a complex project which would more scope in study and design.
 Select a topic which would give you maximum design thought process and chance to
explore numbers of architectural concepts.
 The topic which you are selecting should have more scope for building services so
that you can understand the design principles of various services involved in building
design.
 Try to find out live proposals at national level so that the feasibility and justification
shall be addressed already or otherwise that part has to be done separately for which
you have to spend additional time period.
 The project typologies should not only have design scope but also it should provide
maximum scope to include latest technology and techniques in construction industry.
 Nowadays the whole world is working towards sustainability, so by default you
should include a component of sustainability as part of your thesis which is closely
related to the topic you had selected.
 Most important criteria you should consider while selecting your thesis topic is that
you should have equal scope for research and design.
 The selection of special study which should be related to the topic selected and do a
detailed study and apply that in design to prove it theoretically.
 Explore all the categories in Architecture before selecting the topic so that you can
really understand the need of the society and the current persisting problems which
need immediate attention.
 The topic should provide you scope to improve your technical knowledge which is a
default requirement when you get into practice.
 Explore renowned architects around the world and understand their philosophies and
design thinking and the kind of projects they are working on which helps to select the
trending building typologies.
 Finally this thesis is not an end and this has to carry away to the next level to improve
and develop for the real application to the society.
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SYNOPSIS FORMAT
1. Thesis Statement
2. Thesis Introduction
3. Need of the Project
4. Aim of the Project
5. Objective of the Project
6. Scope of the Project
7. Limitation of the Project
8. Components of Thesis
9. Methodology in Detail
10. Identification of Case Studies
a. Literature Case Studies (Min 2 Nos) – National & International
b. Live Case Studies (Min 2 Nos) – National & International
11. Request for Proposal Document for Live Proposals either by Government or
Private
12. Identification & Selection of Site – Refer to IGBC or GRIHA for Sustainable Site
Selection Criteria
13. Research report on Selected Topic (Min 2 Nos)
14. Conclusion
15. List of Reference
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RESEARCH / SPECIAL STUDY FORMAT

1. Introduction
2. Need of the Study
3. Relation to your Thesis
4. Aim of the Study
5. Objective of the Study
6. Scope of Study
7. Limitations of Study
8. Components of the Study
9. Methodology in Detail
10. Research report on Selected Study (Min 2 Nos)
11. Application to Thesis
12. Conclusion
13. List of References
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THESIS REPORT FORMAT

1. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS:

The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound should be as
follows:

1. Cover Page & Title Page

2. Bonafide Certificate (hard copy will be issued by the department after checking the cover
page/title page and draft report by the staff concerned)

3. Acknowledgement

4. Abstract

4. Table of Contents

5. List of Figures

6. List of Tables

7. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature

8. Chapters

9. Bibliography

10. Appendices

The table and figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.

2. PAGE DIMENSION AND BINDING SPECIFICATIONS:

The dimension of the project report should be in A4 size. The project report should be bound
using flexible cover of the thick white art paper. The cover should be printed in black letters
and the text for printing should be identical.

3. PREPARATION FORMAT:

3.1 Cover Page & Title Page – A specimen copy of the Cover page & Title page of the
project report are given in Appendix 1.

3.2 Bonafide Certificate given in Appendix 2.

3.3 Acknowledgement- Acknowledgement should be with double line spacing, Font Style
Times New Roman and Font Size 14.

3.4 Abstract – Abstract should be one page synopsis of the project report typed double line
spacing, Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 14.
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3.5 Table of Contents – The table of contents should list all material following it as well as
any material which precedes it. The title page and Bonafide Certificate will not find a place
among the items listed in the Table of Contents but the page numbers of which are in lower
case Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head. A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of the project report is given in Appendix 2.

3.6 List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear above the
tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head.

3.7 List of Tables – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below the
figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this
head.

3.8 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature – One and a half spacing should be
adopted or typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols, abbreviations etc. should be
used.

3.9 Chapters – The chapters may be broadly divided into 3 parts (i) Introductory chapter, (ii)
Chapters developing the main theme of the project work (iii) and Conclusion.
The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be further divided
into several divisions and sub-divisions.

 Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.

 Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the
reference where they are cited.

 Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space and placed
directly underneath in the very same page, which refers to the material they annotate.

3.10 Bibliography – The listing of references should be typed four spaces below the heading
“Bibliography” in alphabetical order in single spacing left – justified. The reference material
should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first author. The name of the author/authors
should be immediately followed by the year and other details.
A typical illustrative list given below relates to the citation example quoted above.

 1. Ariponnammal, S. and Natarajan, S. (1994) ‘Transport Phonomena of Sm Sel – X

Asx’, Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol.42, No.1, pp.421-425.
 2. Barnard, R.W. and Kellogg, C. (1980) ‘Applications of Convolution Operators to
Problems in Univalent Function Theory’, Michigan Mach, J., Vol.27, pp.81–94.
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 3. Shin, K.G. and Mckay, N.D. (1984) ‘Open Loop Minimum Time Control of
Mechanical Manipulations and its Applications’, Proc.Amer.Contr.Conf., San Diego,
CA, pp. 1231-1236.
3.10.1 Table and figures - By the word Table, is meant tabulated numerical data in the
body of the project report as well as in the appendices. All other non-verbal materials
used in the body of the project work and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps,
photographs and diagrams may be designated as figures.

3.11 Appendices – Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is

included in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.
Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix
2, etc.
Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered and
referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.
Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be made
in the contents page also.

4. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS:
 The impression on the typed copies should be black in colour.
 One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text of the whole report.
The general text shall be typed in the Font style ‘Times New Roman’ and Font size
14.
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APPENDIX – 1

THESIS TOPIC

Submitted by

STUDENT NAME
Reg no:

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
ARPIL 2023

(Approved by COA & Affiliated to Anna University)

REC Kalvi Nagar, Viraliyur P.O, Thondamuthur Via
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu-640197, India
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APPENDIX – 2

THESIS

This is to certify that the Thesis

THESIS TOPIC NAME

is the bonafide work done by

Student Name

[Register No: 17RMAR001]

submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Architecture

during the academic year 2016-2017

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Guide Dean

Certified that the above titled Thesis was examined by us on date XXXX

at Ranganathan Architecture College, Coimbatore.

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External Examiner

(Approved by COA & Affiliated to Anna University)

REC Kalvi Nagar, Viraliyur P.O, Thondamuthur Via
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu-640197, India
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LIST OF REFERENCE THESIS TOPICS

A case study of slum condition in Ahmedabad

A comparative analysis of the guiding principles in the works of Andrea Palladio & James
Stirling
A decision support system for an architect in the rural housing situation in India
A dialogue with the horizon: the architecture of Luis Barragán
A Search for organic expression in architecture: an inquiry into the works of Frank Lloyd
Wright and Bruce Goff.
A Study and analysis of open spaces for low-cost urban housing
A Study of early twentieth-century architecture in the princely state of Jamnagar
A Study of the evolution of architectural principles in the work of Charles Correa
A Study of interior spaces for classified hotels in India.
A study of Le-Corbusier’s domestic architecture: case study Shodhan and Sarabhai Villas,
Ahmedabad, India
A study of the relationship between housing environment and health case study: slum
clearance tenements, Surat.
A study of the evaluation of the facilities in the traditional houses of the walled city of
Ahmedabad.
A study of the physical environment built for the centre for environmental education
A study of the Siva temple at sander: understanding characteristic features of 11th-century
temple architecture in western India
A study of the urban renewal in the princely town of Jamnagar: during the early 20th century
A study of the use of courtyards in energy-efficient buildings
A study of transitional spaces: constancy and change: the palace complex, Fatehpur Sikri and
the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Advanced: adaptive : technology: an architectural gain from the advanced technology of the
aerospace, maritime and automotive industries
After the moderns: an analyticål study of the works of Richard Meier
An approach to unity in architecture: a study of Carlo Scarpa’s work
An inquiry into the making of a façade
An exploration into the process of creation in nature and architecture
Analyze the situation in Kutch by exploring traditional lifestyles and construction techniques
and provide probable reconstruction solutions as part of their studio work
Analysis of atheneum: an evolution of the analytical framework for formal composition
Analysis of design factors for building hardware (fixtures)
AnalySis of streets: a socio-physical perspective.
Analytical study of the 16th-century Mughal-Rajput temple of Harideva at Govardhan, Uttar-
Pradesh
Ancient Indian towns and their planning in canons and practice
Appraisal of a new town in India: a sociological viewpoint on Chandigarh
Appreciation of architecture: case ATIRA Ahmedabad
Approach to critical architectural appreciation
Appropriating one’s space: process and result in the Indian context.
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Architect and plumbing services for highrise buildings. Route of movement and its role in
architectural design pedestrian
Architectural anchorage into nature: a study of placemaking
Architectural attitudes, intentions, and nature of the expression: a study of colonial
architecture in Madras in Late-19th-Century
Architectural character and the urban setting: a study of the palaces in Indore
The architectural character of civic spaces within the marketplace
Architectural components and their socio-cultural meaning, case study: Bundi, Rajasthan
Architectural controls
Architectural design foundation studio
Architectural education: an understanding of a framework of architectural theory, an
analytical construct of the design process
Architectural elements generated by climate.
Architectural elements in sacred environments: the underlying philosophy
Architectural elements of spatial delimitation and their fundamental expression with a
particular reference to Hindu architecture
Architectural intentions and methods of composition
Architectural ornament in industrial society: a study within the context of the arts and crafts
movement and the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.
Architectural response to the Sun: a study of contemporary architecture, Ahmedabad
Architecture and language: structural linguistics in an architectural context
Architecture for the mourning ritual of Islam: a study of the Imambara-E-Asafi complex,
Lucknow
Architecture in a Late-Capitalist Society: a study in the Indian Context
Architecture in a schizoid environment
Architecture in the expressionist frame of mind as typified in the works of BrunoTaut and
Erich Mende Cohn
Architecture in the princely states of Kathiawad
The architecture of Achyut Kanvinde: a study of houses in Ahmedabad.
The architecture of funerary monuments: a study of English and dutch tombs in the late
seventeenth century at Surat.
The architecture of generalizations: an inquiry into the basis of urban housing
The architecture of Geoffrey Bawa: an intimacy of experience and expression
The architecture of Laurie Baker: regional identity in contemporary work
The architecture of property development in Ahmedabad
The architecture of the contemporary city: folk art and craft centre, Ahmedabad
Art of the ensemble: Le-Corbusier’s Legislative Assembly building, Chandigarh: 1951-1964
Artificial lighting: design aspects
Aspects of symmetry
Aspects of urbanism in the world of Islam: Lucknow an Indian Islamic city
Assessment of house form and community spaces
Association of urban form and activity: its role in the perception of an urban environment
Attitudes and expressions in contemporary mosque architecture of Gujarat
Attitudes to house form study: an overview, Porbandar: a case for study
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Attitudes towards the design of art museums

Attributes of “PLACE”: the urban space in the traditional Indian city of Udaipur
Auroville experiment: polemics of ideology vs. existence within the simulation of a utopian
myth
Axis: a study of its design expressions in architecture
Banni house form: a study of the thé phenomenon of change.
Basic study of air movement within enclosure
Behavioural response to architectural spaces: a study of institutional transition spaces: case
studies: Indian
The behaviour of streets: distinctions in street character as a component of physicality and
activity in the inner city of Meerut
Bhavnagar: urban and architectural history
Bhutan architects and engineers, Thimphu, Bhutan.
Bohra settlement and house form at Kapadvanj manifestation of a culture in built-form
Borromini’s visual approach to architecture
Bracket: a significant element of the woodwork in the traditional houses of Ahmedabad
Buddhist monasteries in Sikkim: an investigation into design principles and processes
Building process problems: a study
Building typology and urban morphology: a study
Built form responses in self-built houses: a study of vernacular earth dwellings in the hot arid
desert climatic zone of India
Bungalow: a colonial house-form
Calcutta: its indigenous town: a reading from the dwelling
Case of Ahmedabad improving squatter settlements issues of land and finance
Catastrophes and community rehabilitation: a study of community
Catastrophes and community rehabilitation: a study of shelters
Centre for development of craft tradition, Mehrauli.
Chandigarh urban planning: a critical appraisal
Chandni chowk: a study of change and transformation
Change in a rural settlement due to forces of urbanization: the resultant urban village
Changing facade of a city: a case study of Ahmedabad
Changing townscape of Surat city
Chaotic habitats
Choice of planting and its effect in urban residential areas of Ahmedabad region
Christian community housing at Christ Church, Mirzapur, Ahmedabad
Cinema and architecture: understanding thought the concept of space: time and narrative.
City: expression of the human domain
City districts: a case study of Udaipur city
City graphics
City squares: a study of Chhoti-Chaupar, Jaipur
The city within the city, distinctions of urban form in the colonial city of Calcutta
City-river connection study of ghats of Varanasi and Mirzapur
Clarity: an exploration into the making of buildings
Climate and house form
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Climatic evaluation of Ahmedabad region

Climatic evaluation of central Gujarat (including suggestions for achieving thermally
comfortable design)
Climatic evaluation of Jamnagar region
Climatic evaluation of Veraval region
Climatic response inbuilt forms
Coastal villages of Saurashtra
Code of ethics in architecture
Colonial residential development: a study of New Delhi.
Colonial urban development: 1868-1896 the case study of Bhavnagar
Community and house form
Community spaces in Newar settlements
Community structuring and its generative forces
Community structuring in Gujarat: planning aspects.
Comparative study of children’s activity in vertically and horizontally expanded housing
schemes in Ahmedabad city.
Comparative study of elements in architecture & landscape design
Comparative study of low-cost housing projects: Low-cost
Complex: Neemrana Fort Palace
Comprehensible order of relationships: a study of urban Jaipur
Concept and experience: the Rauza complex at Sarkhej, Ahmedabad
Concept of open space
Conceptual study of the making of a Mausoleum: a representation of Sufi philosophy in Indo-
Islamic architecture
Conceptual and the real: an understanding of urban experience: Ahmedabad
Conservation of old buildings
Conservation of urban elements in a traditional Indian city: a study of the old city of
Ahmedabad
Constancy and change in-the-urban dwelling environment of Ahmedabad
Constants and particulars of Islamic Mausoleum: a comparative study of Indo-Islamic
Mausoleums
Constants in dwellings. (villages), Ahmedabad district, Gujarat State.
Construction economy in housing and its architectural application
Contemporary directions in architecture: Work of Le Corbusier
Contemporary directions in architecture
Contemporary Indian dwelling environments: a study of Prof.B.V.Doshi’s works
Contemporary urban-dwelling environment physical conditions in the dwellings of middle-
income housing, Ahmedabad.
Continuity and change: a study of attitudes to building in historic urban contexts
Continuity and change: revival of Indian architectural traditions: 1850-1950
Continuity and interceptions: a study of the structuring of the urban fabric
Continuity and space in Indian architecture
Continuity as an essence of dwelling patterns in the vernacular context
Corporeal form in architecture: a study of the role of materials and construction methods in
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shaping architectural expression

Correlation between forces and resultants in traditional and contemporary house form: issues
of social relevance
Correspondence between built-form and community pattern
Courtyard as an element of the built form: a case study of Bundi
Critical study of services for the textile industry
Cube: an inquiry into the nature of a primary form
Cultural centre, Ahmedabad
Culture-specific house form: Nair Tarawads of Kerala.
Darbar squares: Nepal
Darkness in architecture: a study of South Indian temples.
Deconstruction in architecture: a critical inquiry.
Decorations of traditional houses in Gujarat: a study
Deeg palace-complex: a study emphasizing water as a special design element
Defined open spaces and built forms: a visual harmony
Density and its effects on living conditions
Design aspects in architecture responding to natural water bodies: sea, river, lake
Design considerations for housing layouts
Design guidelines to the parks for the disabled
Design intentions in colonial architecture: a study of urban institutions in Baroda 1875-1920
Design norms for a cotton textile mill.
Design norms for institutions for mentally handicapped children
Design norms for secondary school
Design norms for the dairy plant
Design norms for the intercity bus terminals
Design norms for zoological gardens
Design norms of airport passenger terminal complex
Design norms of a cardiac hospital
Determinants of urban structure: Ujjain
Development of a river edge: contemporary city, Surat.
Development of the city centre and design of the city museum.
Development of contemporary architecture in Ahmedabad a review
Development of highrise building in Ahmedabad
Developments in structural spanning
Directly correlated CYBERCOLIBRIUM. architecture as a system open to information and
energy
Discourse on Indian modernity in the context of three specific instances: Hriday Kunj, I.I.T.,
Kanpur, and N.I.D
Documentation of socio morphologic characteristics of a rural settlement: a case study at
village Pansar
Domestic facades in traditional woodwork: a study of Maganbhai-ni-Haveli in Ahmedabad
Dvaraka: a place of pilgrimage and religious centre.
Dwarka: a study in continuity and change in the sacred built environment
Dwelling alternation behaviour: a study of personal
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Dwelling clusters in South India: a case study of Tiruchirapalli

Dwellings of the Bohra community in Gujarat: a study of Vernacular habitat between A.D.
1750-1900
Dynamics in the urban environment of a city: a study through commercial nodes of Delhi
Dynamics of meaning within an architectural firm
Eclecticism in Islamic architecture: Mughal period.
Economy and planning efficiency of office buildings
Effective cluster formation
The effective environment in residential open spaces
Effects of the physical environment on social relations.
Eighteen hundred thirty eight-Ninteen hundred ninety-eight constancy and change within the
Muslim house form Varkund, Daman
Eighteen-Hundred-sixty-1940: Baroda-urban transformation and renewal: a city’s attempt at
revitalization: an inquisition through its institutional architecture and institutional structure
Elements of fortification: a study of Vijayanagar and Champaner
Elements that constitute Sarkhej complex, Gujarat: a study towards conservation
Enclosed open spaces within the complexes of Islamic architecture: a case study of Fatehpur-
Sikri
Enclosed urban open spaces according to the classical principles: a study of their visual
aspect during the Italian renaissance
The encounter of cultures in Begumpur: a study of evolutionary housing
Enquiry into the aspects of an urban edge as an element of participation
Environmental characteristics of Ashram road and Gheekanta road regarding commercial and
recreational activities
Environmental choice and residential satisfaction: a case study of middle-income households
in Ahmedabad
Environmental management investigation into the impact of traffic on a residential area
The era of change: 1860-1890, the colonial architecture of Bombay
Essential residence: understanding traditional Indian architecture in the image of Man
Evaluation criteria used in the assessment of buildings for their conservation
Evaluation of a traditional habitat: case study Bohra community, Gujarat
Evaluation of climate: Rajkot region
Evaluation of industrial township case study: Gujarat
Evaluation of relative habitability of public housing: a study of Ahmedabad
Evaluation of relative habitability of residential high-rise buildings in Ahmedabad
Evaluation of the grid as organizational principles in architecture
Evaluation of Tower and Plaza: prototype commercial built environment: a user body
perspective
Evolution and expression of Form’ and ‘Design: an inquiry into the institutions by Louis-I-
Kahn.
Evolution and principles of furniture design in India.
Evolution of architectural language in the works of a contemporary Indian architect:
B.V.Doshi
Evolution of house concepts & its groupings in Ahmedabad.
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Evolution of Indo-Islamic tombs (1231-1753A.D.) Delhi, Agra, Sasaram

Evolution of row housing in Ahmedabad: specific reference to collective and individual
house forms
Evolution of theatre forms in India: a summary of theatre forms existing in India from ancient
to contemporary time
Experiencing pleasure through buildings: a study
Explorations into an approach to architecture: studies of the buildings of the Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad, and the architect Louis-I-Kahn.
Extension to National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Extension to Pratap Vilas, Baroda
External intervention in the rural building process
Facade in the built environment
Facades: an element of architecture
Factors influencing outdoor and indoor climate
Fatehpur-Sikri revisited: new light on its planning principles
Felix Candela: the architecture of structural forms
Fire protection for high-rise buildings
Flats as a part of urban housing: case study, Ahmedabad city: the year 1970-1975
Flexibility in mass-housing: a post-occupancy evaluation of housing units with specific
reference to physical alternations/additions and the building types
Flooring materials for the textile industry: a critical examination
Food Craft Institute, Pune
For Pune… Redevelopment of the edges between Sambhaji Park & Balgandharva
Rangmandir
Form and architecture
Form and variation in a Bengal village structure.
Form, structure, and energy: a study of the Great Pyramid and Matrimandir
Formation of an urban core: a study of Ahmedabad
Forms and settlement patterns in the region of Goa
Fort of Kumbhalgarh: a representative example of medieval Rajput architecture
Fragmentation of form: a study of the use of fractal geometry, chance, and dynamical systems
in the design of the form
From literal to virtual: a study of the work of Ando, Mies, and Kahn
From traditional to contemporary: a study of Turbulent phases
Garden city concept: its origins, developments, and the Indian experience
Gateways: artefacts of civilizations
General study of canonical Hindu town planning and ‘Dandaka’ type town form according to
Vastu-shastfå, regarding Vadodara and Bhavnagar
Generators and determinants of town planning: Gondal state 1865A.D.-1944A.D.
Generators of spatial organization in a Rajput Palace
Generators of urban space of Ahmedabad: the processes at work
Generic order: an insight into creation: the temple place at Shatrunjaya Hill, Palitana, and the
house source.
Genesis and evolution of a traditional house form as a cultural idiom: PeshwaWadas, a
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Maratha way of life.

The genesis of architectural form Dynamics of Jhuggi dwelling: case study Shadipur Depot,
Delhi
Geometric delineation in the Nagara-Cella: a study of the temple of Ranakdevi at Wadhwan
Geometric discipline in architecture
Geometric formalism and nature of the land: a study of Shatrunjayagiri Jain Tirtha
Ghummat: software unfolding the geometry of geodesic domes
Giuseppe Terragni: the danteum project: an understanding
Growth and architectural form
Growth exploitation: effects of density pattern and traffic on Bhagal Delhigate road, at Surat
The growth process of a small size town of Gujarat: case study: Khedbrahma
Guided by Doshi, B.V
Gurukul: a place for learning
Harmony as an organizational principle in architecture
Haveli of Swaminarayan-Temple, Ahmedabad an architectural understanding
Havelis: a study of Jaipur
Herman Hertzberger: an architect of human concerns
Hierarchy of spaces: Amber Palace Complex
Hindu influence on Islamic architecture of Gujarat:1000 A.D.-1500A.D
Hindu ritual movement: a study of Sri Virupaksha Temple Hampi
Hobby centre for children, Rajkot
Horizontal as a constituent element in Architecture
Hotel in Nagarkot, Kathmandu Vally, Nepal
House: a socio-cultural reality: an analysis of Koya built from Mapillæsettlements of Kerala
House form
House forms of culture: Namboodiri Illams of Malabar.
House in its socio-cultural and physical context.
Housecore prefabrication
House form and settlement: a manifestation of socio-cultural beliefs: a study of Kharak
settlements in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat
House forms in a cultural context: a study of Fatehpur Shekhawati, Rajasthan
House forms of Diu: a comparative study of the two major types.
Houses of the Saraswat Brahmins of Goa: a study
Housing competition, Urban-1979)
Housing for a middle-income group: comparative Study of working of different agencies
Housing mobility processes: a case study of low-income households in Ahmedabad
The housing of the urban poor: a study of the informal sector in Ahmedabad
Human response to contemporary urban open spaces: a comparative study of Ahmedabad and
Gandhinagar
Human response to the built environment: a study of behavioural patterns in commercial
centres
Human response to the imposed built environment: a post-occupancy study of additions and
alterations in mass housing schemes of Ahmedabad
Hybrid: its role in the evolution of architectural styles
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The idea of a city: understanding the morphology and character of George-town, Madras
The idea of ideology: the significance of ideology in architecture
The idea of an Indian town
The idea of ruin: readings into the breaking of form
Ideals and education in architecture
Ideological roots of movements in architecture
Impact of changes in culture on house form: a study of old and New-Delhi habitats
Impact of house form and street form on the overall city form: a case study of Jodhpur city
Impact of the major developing road on the city structure
Impact of the site on residential building design in Gujarat
Importance of open spaces and landscape design in an urban residential area
In harmony with ecology: a study of the Dang shelter forms.
Incorporating traditional methods of building to address the issues of identity in architecture:
towards a new trend – case study: Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad: a study of architecture
Indian residential architecture before the Islamic period regarding orientation and modular
site planning system.
Indigenous domestic architecture: a study of two houses in the town of Bundi
Individual houses Of Ahmedabad: last decade 1968-76.
The indo-Islamic architecture of Gujarat: with special reference to regional influences
Indo-Saracenic style: an exception in Bombay study of the general Post-office, 1910
Influence of climate on building design
Influence of materials on architecture: a study of structural steel
Influence of urban forces on village structure
Information theory and perception
Inquiry into architectural activity under the transformation of articulation of issues and
methods
Inquiry into the construction industry at the construction firm level.
Inquiry into housing conditions of industrial workers in Ahmedabad
Inquiry into modernism and the notion of place: between dichotomy and differences.
Inquiry into the aspect of rationale in architecture is substantiated with an analysis of the
works of Alvar-Aalto.
Inquiry into the ‘Making’ of urban space: a case of fort area, Bombay
Inquiry into the nature of Axonometric drawing
Inquiry into the nature of the urban public realm
Inquiry into the process of visualization in architecture: study in graphic re-presentation as a
tool for visualization
Inquiry into urban metamorphosis: Kashmir-gate Shahjahanabad
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore
Integration of landscape in architecture: a study of Rajput-Palaces
Integration of landscape in the architecture of Joseph-Allen-Stein
Integrity in the works of Frank-Lloyd-Wright
Interpretations of ornamentation in Indian architectural history: with a study of the decorated
column
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Interiors and furniture for “open plan” type offices

Internal external inter-phase in building environment with a particular study of Mughal
architecture
Interpretative design efforts: mandapas of the Maru-Gujarat style
Inter-relationship between painting and architecture study within the context of the art
movements of the early twentieth century and their roots
Intimate space: locating the Indian urban experience
Investigation in planning parameters for tourism developments
Investigations in building materials and techniques for low-cost housing on a method of
evaluation
Investigations into the architectural design: conceptions and processes
Isomorphs of cities: a comparative study of models, metaphors analogies and such other
comparisons of the urban spatial form
Jain temple architecture in Western-India
Ka-Ka-ni Mchod-rten at alch chos-khor early 11th, Century AD: a study of the form’s
intrinsic expression
Kala Kendras: Jaipur: the architecture of the contemporary city
Kalyan Gram: a development centre for the Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad
Kannada: a study: the Gutthu Houses
Khagol Udhyan: the astronomy centre at Paldi, Ahmedabad.
Kinetic architecture: a study
Kitchen as service core in dwelling
Landform influencing the morphology of the settlement: Amber
Landscape as a place in an urban context
Landscape in building environment: a study of various attitudes in different cultural contexts
The landscape of the city: squares
Learning to make a plan: house for books & information compilation of the studio design
process
Le-Corbusier: towards a synthesis
Le-Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Library (with Children Center), Ranchhodjini POI, Dabgarwad, Ahmedabad
Lightweight structures,
Limits of a horizon: the idea of the maidan
Limits of interpretation: understanding architecture: through the notion of Paradigms
Lost identity: an appraisal of Sir Edwin Lutyens with particular reference to his work in India
Making of a romantic landscape: Braj
Making of unbuilt spaces: case study: National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi
Man Mandir Palace: Gwalior: a study of medieval Hindu palace architecture
Management of materials of construction in slums: a case study of Ahmedabad
Manifestation of culture in built-form: a study of bhil settlement and house-form at
Panchrnahal
Manifestation of a Saivite-Temple I-Tiruvannamalai
Manifestation of a transitional space: a study of its changing nature in domestic architecture
Manifestation of pluralistic values in architecture: an inquiry
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Manifestations in Mass constructed middle-income-group dwellings of Ahmedabad

Man-made spatial environment: a study
Maratha Vadas of Baroda: a study
Marine world, Pondicherry
Marketplace, Ambawadi, Ahmedabad.
Mass Housing: a review with a man in mind
Mass housing in the composite tropical climate: An analysis of Ahmedabad
Mass production of standard (service) units in dwellings.
Materials and house form
Materials construction techniques and dwelling from Ahmedabad city
Meaning in Khasi house forms: a study of traditional and Bungalow-type house forms of
Cherrapunji
Meaning in the built environment: communication through physical cues in the environment
Meaning of geometry in architecture
The medieval town planning of India
Metamorphosis: a study of the transformation in the dwelling environment of an ethnic
community
Migrant squatters and its quality in urban environments
Mind-set and the urban condition: an interpretation of post-colonial Delhi
Minimalism and architecture: an inquiry into the minimalistic approach in the work of Tadao
Ando and Herzog and de Meuron
‘Missionary schools in Darjeeling’: a study of the organization as a manifestation of attitudes,
ideologies, and social relationships of the institute for the local culture.
Modhera Sun Temple: a study of aspects of architectural expressions
Modular office furniture systems: a total perception
Mohalla: a study of traditional Islamic neighbourhood, cases from Patan and Ahmedabad, the
medieval cities of western India
The monument as an expression of its age: the study of an Indo-Islamic mausoleum
Monuments in urban surroundings
Morphology of a sacred settlement: a case study Nathdwara (Rajasthan)
Morphology of the urban block: a study
Morvi: expression of a princely town
Mosque: form, structure and regional influences
Mosque as a civic institution in Islamic architecture
Moti Daman: a Portuguese administrative settlement: a study of spatial organization and civic
spine
The multiplicity of values in city spaces
Municipal council complex: Jaffna, Northeastern province, Sri Lanka
Nationalist histories and architectural patronage
Natural light and perception of built form.
Natural light as a visual element of space in the interiors of public buildings
Natural light in architecture: its emotive and evocative aspects
Nature and settlement pattern – Ujjain: A formal essay
Nature of an academic institution: its manifestation in architecture: a study of three
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management institutions.
Ngala house in its sodio-cultural and physical context.
Nomadic movements & settlements of the Rabari of Kutch
Non-convex polyhedra
Non-planned services in Ahmedabad
Norms for hospital planning and design
Off diversity in urban rite: manifestation in the homogeneous built, Benares
Off context and modernity: the Indian framework incursions into the architectural
subject/object as, cultural product in the contemporary condition
Office building for Ahmedabad Telephones, Khanpur, Ahmedabad.
Old and new areas of a city: a comparative study (Case study of Ahmedabad)
On entrances: a symbolic aspect
Open spaces in POI architecture: a study of chowks Ahmedabad
Open-ended-ness of an Indian urbanity Bombay in my petri dish.
Openings: a study Of their architectural significance and their role as character motifs
Organizational concepts of urban house forms
Organizational patterns: social and physical
Organizational principles in architecture
Organizational principles in Islamic complexes in India.
Organizing principles of space making: a study of Nagaur Fort Complex
Origin and development of woodwork in Gujarat
Originality in architecture: from conception to realization of a built form.
Out of the normative deviance in architecture
Outdoor community recreation
Outline of a study: metaphors as related to the synthesis of an architectural idea
Panthers: an ethnic-architectural study
Padukams of Namboothiri Illams: understanding its importance as an element of transition
Palace complex
Palimpsest, interpretation of images reflecting Indian context in symbolic and realistic ways
Parsee habitat: a study
Patan, Mahesana District: community: Nagar
Pavilion: an insight into an open architectural structure.
Pedestrian traffic in city centres
Penetration into architectural expressions associated with plan-forms and several structural
details related to it of the religious and monumental edifice of Hindu and Muslim.
Penetration into transcendental archetypes, Depicted in architecture
People, place and vernacular architecture: a study of Lakhamandal, a village in the cis-
Himalayan region of Jaunsar, U.P
Perception of space through the aspect of movement: a study of three campus architecture in
Ahmedabad during the Islamic period.
Perceptual and the experiential: an exploration along with their two polarities: a spatial
analysis of two temple complexes.
Performing art centre, Ahmedabad
Permanent pavement dealers: a study in the city of Ahmedabad
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Physical and associational qualities of landmarks in the Indian context

Physical transformation processes for the design of a dwelling unit
Place for learning
Placemaking in the Indian tradition: Hindu philosophy and its manifestation in Indian built
form
Planning efficiency of cinema theatres
Planning of a dwelling unit according to the Vastu Shastra: a contemporary view
Politics of urban form: an exploration into the political connotations of the urban form of the
city
Pondicherry: an inquiry into the phenomenon of settlement.
Popular housing: access to and exploitation of the resources
Porbandar: a study of its evolution
Post-earthquake of January 26, 2001: resettling Kutch
Postmodern ideologies: its manifestation in housing
Premises for trust, Chowk Junction, Surat
The principal approach of a city
Principles of growth in architectural forms
Production of space & urban form: Bombay 1930 onwards.
Production process and the output product: analysis of the: urban housing by the private
sector commercial developer, in the city of Ahmedabad
Profiles of built-forms: a case study of Nasik houses.
Project affected place, Vastapur, Ahmedabad.
Project proposal
Proposal for minimal need housing
Psychological profile of an architect: socialization of professional beliefs: attitudes and
values
Purani haveli palace complex, Hyderabad: an architectural appraisal
Quality in nature and its influence on architectural design
Queens’ Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur: an architectural understanding
Ramifications of concept: the symbolic and functional aspects of movement in architecture
Ranjit Vilas Palace, Wankaner: British period, 1907-1928 in Saurashtra: an analytical study
of its architectural styles.
Re-consideration of constancy and continuity in modern architecture
Recreational spaces: a case study of Baroda city
Recreational urban open spaces
Recycling examining the concept in the modern Indian context
Recycling of materials & components examining the present Indian context
Redevelopment – Sindhi market, Revdi Bazar, Ahmedabad
Redevelopment of the urban core
Re-examination of a court: house, concept
Regional evaluation of climate: Baroda region
Regional evaluation of climate: Bhuj (Kutch)
Regional evaluation of climate Surat
Rehabilitation of villages in major irrigation projects.
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Reinterpreting “Conservation”: Watson hotel building at Kalaghoda, Mumbai.

Religious building (Temple) as a nucleus of the city: a study of the impact of a dominant
building on the city
Republic high school, Bhidbhanjan Hanuman Street, Relief Road, Ahmedabad
Residential open spaces: a study of Muslim residential areas in a hot climatic region
Response to a tradition: a study of architectural attitudes during the British Intervention in
India.
Response to climate
Responses of build forms to the urban context
Restructuring of squatter settlements in Ahmedabad guidelines for the provision of utilities
Restructuring squatter settlements: the city of Ahmedabad
Revitalizing art and architecture: a study of Dadaism as an attitude.
Rhythm: a comparative study of its expression in nature and architecture
Rhythm: an expression of order an insight into its manifestation in Indian classical music and
temple architecture
River as a generator of the environment
Role of ‘Environmental Psychology’ in the design of the environment: a study of behavioural
reactions in immediate surroundings, within landscape settings; and its contribution to viable
design decisions.
Role of material in offering a built expression: a study of buildings in steel
Role of physical and natural elements on primary schools of villages
Role of the unbuilt spaces in clustered organizations: a study of Indian palace complexes
Role of urban structure to the house from a comparative study of towns – Mundra and Anjar,
Kutch
The role played by mäterials and building techniques in the development of elemental forms
Rural housing: a symbol of socio-economic reality.
Rural constructional technology
Rural habitat: -a study of settlements, houses, of the Mer community in past and present
contexts
Rural housing in Gujarat: last five years
Rural pockets in the urban structure, Ahmedabad
Rural settlements with special emphasis on indoor and outdoor spaces: a case study in
Kashmir
Sarto Almeida: a regional revivalist of cultural expressions study of a residence
Scaling and proportioning aspects
Search for an order: an inquiry into the contemporary direction in Indian architecture
Search for the core of an institute notes
Sense of belonging: the character of community space.
Sense of centre and its manifestation in dwelling form.
Sense of life in a traditional environment as created through its patterns: the case of the poles
in Ahmedabad.
Sense of place: an understanding of the notions of urban place-making in India
Sense of place in a traditional dwelling environment.
Settlement and house form: Kulu-Valery
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Settlement pattern: history and theory of urban design Benares, Bombay, Junagadh,
Pondicherry, Pune
Settlement pattern: history and theory of urban design Junagadh, Pondicherry, Pune
Settlement pattern: history and theory of urban design, Amsterdam, Cairo, Hong Kong.
Settlement patterns in the Urban region of Rajkot
Settlement study
Settlements of migrants: three case studies in East Calcutta
Shahjahanabad: the dwelling environment: physical manifestation and its socio-cultural
meanings
Significance of behaviour study in architectural design
Significance of steps and ramps in architecture
Significant dimensions of an urban element: multivalent readings reflected in the suggestive
redundancy of the city
Single-family attached Dwelling type: a comparative study Ahmedabad
Situation and response in architecture: a case study of Kathmandu Valley: Nepal
Slum as an artefact: the product of a way of life.
Symmetry as an ordering principle: a study of the Italian renaissance architecture
Social and cultural influences on modern church design.
Society as a changing system: understanding the polar nature within and its physical
manifestations
Socio-cultural factors: their manifestation in tribal: architecture: a case study of dang district,
Software for daylight
Software for lighting design: soft lite: a study of aspects of lighting design and development
of software to evaluate a lighting system in a given environment
Software for shadow throw of primary forms
Solar energy in architecture
Some aspects of cultural ecology in architecture: the case study of two tribal settlements
South-Gujarat
Space and its use in traditional and contemporary dwellings: case study Ahmedabad.
Space and society in a Rabari community
Space in motion: motion in space the space of the Brihadeshwara in the context of
Bharatnatyam.
Space of Indian cities: from an absolute to an abstract space: the case of Jaipur as the non-
familiar Indian city.
Spaces and elements of transition
Spatial changes in fringe village of Ahmedabad city: a case study of Isanpur
Spatial hierarchy in the Peshwekalin Wadas and its influence on the domestic house: form
Spatial manifestation of a cultural behaviour: Peking and Bhaktapur
Spatial ostentation of colour: manifesting the embodiment of visual form.
Spread and acceptance of architectural images and idioms the case of contemporary,
Ahmedabad
State Fertilizer Corporation and Indian Farmers Fertilizer Corporation
Statutory controls in apartment housing in Ahmedabad their implications and interpretations
Steel: an examination of the integration of material, construction and resultant form in
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architecture
Strategic variations attempted in systems of proportion.
Street form
The street pattern of Ahmedabad
Street Sleepers a study of the pavement dwellers concerning the city of Ahmedabad 1972
Structural and constructional aspects of water reservoirs and their relationship with religious
buildings in Gujarat.
Structural elements of an Indian medieval city Vijayanagara
Structuralism and architecture: a synchronic and diachronic study
Structure and order in the built environment: an appraisal of the desert citadel of Jaisalmer
Structure in architecture
Structure of the narrative and architectural ideology: the contemporary Indian case
Structurist attitudes in the works of Kenzo Tange: a critical study
student community and faculty from CEPT, Ahmedabad
Study: middle-income group co-operative housing schemes organized by private developers
in Ahmedabad
Study and analysis of indoor spaces in L.I.G. housing schemes
Study into the impact of photography on architecture: as a visual medium
Study methodology Of design as described in the ancient-Indian texts on architecture
(Dwelling houses).
Study of a community structure
Study of a Rajput fort palace: Deogarh
Study Of a town and its elements: Devgadh-Baria
Study of a tribal settlement
Study of activity spaces in Jain temple complexes
Study of allocation of areas in ancient towns of Gujarat.
Study of an Architect’s own house – from conception to manifestation, Balkrishna Doshi’s
residence, Ahmedabad.
Study of an architectural response to sustainability high-rise office buildings designed for
natural ventilation.
Study of an educational campus
Study of approaches of Islamic religious and mortuary complexes in Ahmedabad
Study of building technology and structural systems of mosques
Study of change in house form in response to changing family needs: cause and effect
Study of change, its comprehension, and the evidence of change in the dwelling forms
Study of Chawls: case study Bombay Island
Study of churches in Goa (Indian influence) existential meaning embodied and conveyed by
Santana of Tallaulim.
Study of colonial architecture with special reference to the buildings of Gujarat-college:
Ahmedabad
Study of colonnade as an expression of the public domain.
Study of construction in traditional architecture: focus on wooden houses of the old city of
Ahmedabad
Study of contemporary architecture in India: institution in Ahmedabad
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Study of court-concept, evolution, and applications.

Study of cubist concepts
Study of desert settlements with the main emphasis on house form: a case study in the United
Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)
Study of design norms for libraries of educational institutions

Study of the development of Buddhist architectural thought as reflected in Nalanda

Study of dwellings of hill settlement: Nilgiri hills.
Study of eclecticism in architecture
Study of entrances: Dravidian temples
Study of fall out shelter
Study of Gondal town: integrating the past with the present.
Study of hard landscape elements in public outdoor space
Study of Haveli-Mandirs of Gujarat: observations on house-form temples of Pusti-Margiya
Vaishnava Sampradaya
Study of highrise buildings
Study of hill settlements: Settlements of Kumaon
Study of Hindu temples
Study of house form in Isfahan (Iran)
Study of house form and settlement pattern: a case study
Study of housing clusters in Valsad region
Study of human groups: correlation between human groups, communication patterns, and the
physical fabric
Study of industrial estates in Ahmedabad
Study of interaction spaces in academic institutions: case studies
Study of Jain temple complex at MT.Girnar
Study of Jehangir-MahaI, at Orchha: a representative example of Bundela architecture
Study of Lakshmi-Vilas Palace, Baroda: an architectural appreciation
Study of linkages in group architectural forms
Study of the man-made, outdoor, urban environment
Study of medieval temple complex Krimchi: Udhampur, J-&-K-State
Study of medieval towns: Gujarat region: their form, physical structure, and growth
Study of modern palaces of Porbandar the Daria-Rajmahal
Study of mosque architecture at Champanair
Study of mosques
Study of Nagar houses concerning their socio-cultural background
Study of nature of spaces in slum settlements
Study of old Havelis in Gujarat
Study of old houses Ahmedabad
Study of open spaces for middle size housing 500-1100sq.feet
Study of organization of pattern of the tribal settlement and shelters : DANGS: to evolve
attitudes towards revitalizing the community
Study Of outdoor play spaces in housings at Ahmedabad.
Study of outdoor spaces and activities in them in primary school
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Study of platforms: a defining and modulating element in architecture

Study of Raja-Bir-Singh-Deo’s palace at Datia: a representative example of Bundela
architecture
Study of residential site planning for row houses, the collective house form: case-study
Ahmedabad
Study of response to and use of space in the context of socio-economic parameters in a
housing program
Study of response to and use of space in the context of socio-economic parameters in housing
programs Ahmedabad city
Study of scale and proportions and use of ‘The modular’ in the works of Le-Corbusier
Study of scale in architecture
Study of settlement form in Nilgiri district: South India
Study of shopping streets concerning various types of movements
Study of some surface water structures of the medieval period in Gujarat: an urban
conservational viewpoint major case study: Kankaria tank, Ahmedabad. Archetypal feminine
and its architectural manifestations a study of Hindu sacred architecture
Study of spaces in royal buildings: Mandu
Study of spaces within a dwelling and their design process of middle size dwellings built-up
area 500-1100sq.feet.
Study of spatial and experiential qualities with natural light in Leo Pereira’s work
Study of standardized elements and their specific uses in developing the characteristics of the
houses within the fort-wall of Ahmedabad
Study of Swaminarayan-temple complexes in Gujarat.
Study of technology in middle size housing built area between 46.50-92.90sq.mts
Study of the Church architecture of Gujarat: Nineteenth-century / Protestant
Study of the determinants of a building: case evaluation Deogarh fort palace, Rajasthan
Study of the fusion of Indo-Islamic architecture and colonial architecture with special
reference to buildings of Baroda. [Thesis]Study of the house form of the temple town of
Nathdwara.
Study of the interaction between the clients and the architects in decision-making for
residential space organizations.
Study of the Jain temple of Ajit Nath at Tauranga multiplicity of meaning in a temple form
Study of the living conditions of chawl dwellers in Greater, Bombay
Study of the philosophical aspects of South Indian temples with special reference to
Guruvaur Temple, Kerala
Study of the process of change, Doshi-no-pada, Patan.
Study of the stepwell at Ambapur: an inquiry into the structural and constructional aspects
Study of the streetscape elements
Study of the urban structure of Goan towns
Study of the wall and the column: seen as elements of the spatial definition in the context of
culture and change.
Study of theatre spaces in India
Study of traditional elements and design language of the facade in houses of Jaisalmer,
Rajasthan
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Study of the traditional street form: Ahmedabad

Study of transition in architecture
Study of tribal settlements and shelters in change
Study of two major urban activity spaces in old Ahmedabad Ratan-pol and Manekchowk
Study of two projects by Kahn examining their timeless quality
Study of two settlements in the village of Velim, Goa
Study of vernacular architecture of the Ukai region and its implication on a rehabilitation
program
Study of Vijay-Vilas palace, Mandvi-Kutch; an example of Indo-Saracenic style of
architecture
Study of Zoroastrian fire temples
Study on tribal settlements Panchmahals: social pattern physical organization
Studying adaptive reuse of building dockyard: a case for Bombay
Sub-terranean architecture: a bio-climatic approach to energy conservation
Subterranean architecture: a forgotten tradition of Sultanate Gujarat
Suprematism & its interpretation in contemporary architecture: with special reference to the
works of Zaha Hadid
Sustainability in the built world: an overview
Symbiosis on natural and man-made: a study of organic
Symbolism and interpretation of the human body in Hindu temples
The symbolism of the sun and its manifestation in Indian architecture
Synthesis in architectural design: a study of approaches.
Syrian Christian Church complex in Kerala
System of proportion in the Hindu temples of Gujarat
System of proportioning in South Indian temples
Tadao Ando: architecture in harmony with nature
Tadao Ando: an understanding as a critical regionalist.
Tangible form: a study of the role of geometry in architecture
Telematic simulation and conception of the real: in current architectural conduct, the
relevance of the methods employed in structuring the televised hyper-real.
Temples at Roda Maha-Gujarat style, c. late eight-early ninth century A.D. reading of plinths
as a significant base.
Territories and their manifestation in the built environment: a case of the old city of
Ahmedabad.
The category of the regular: modes of knowing and architectural production in the age of
reason
The changing urban structures of Delhi: a study of district centres and their role in the new
structure of the city
The concept and experience: an immediate street space of Banaras
The dialectic of policies, spatial form, and social processes: a reading of the mill area in
Mumbai
The Hindu temple: Dravidian style
The marginal propensity for investment in the dwelling
The marketplace: a study of the changing trends in its spatial-patterns
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The mythic dimension in architecture: understanding the structure of architectural experience.

The presence of the past for the future: understanding architecture as individual world-view
based on social age-spirit
The raison d’etre of architecture
The sense of life’ in the ornamented form an interpretative study in the perception of the
Hindu temple
The study of metaphoric expressions in architecture
The system of proportion in the Hindu temples of the Gujarat region.
The system of proportions in Jain temples in the Gujarat region (Western India)
The universal and the contextual: influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on contemporary Indian
architecture.
Towards conservation in the walled city of Hyderabad.
Towards in architectural rediscovery of the palace of the last Mughal, Zafar-Mahal, Mehrauli
Towards the sun: vernacular building: the Ladakh House
Town space in culture-in-change
Town space study of religious towns of Gujarat: visual aspects
Tradition and its continuity in contemporary Indian architecture : case-studies: I.I.M.,
Bangalore and I.I.F.M., Bhopal
Tradition and its influences in Japanese architecture: examining the work of Fuminiko Maki
Tradition and reinterpretation: examining the works of Hassan-Fathy
Traditional architectural attributes in contemporary architecture
Traditional dwelling forms in Bhutan: a study of the Ngalopa
Traditional dwellings in Southern India: a case study of Tiruchirapalli
Traditional house form: the expression of a culture a study of Saraswati dwellings
Traditional house form in Bikaner, Rajasthan: a study
Traditional houses of the bunt community, Dakshina
Traditional temple theatres of Kerala: a study
Traditionality and transformation a study of change in the Toda architectural tradition
Traffic generation characteristics of a residential suburb: a case study of Azad Society,
Ahmedabad
Training centre for SEWA, Ahmedabad
Transformation of a princely town: development of the town of Dhoraji during the rule of
Maharaja Shri Bhagwatsinhji of Gondal
Transformation of a tradition: the temple and mosque in the architecture of Gujarat
Transformation of a typology: a study of a POI in Ahmedabad
Typology of sacred centres
Understanding architectural form: a study on its synthesis
Understanding architecture: its significant dimensions and reflection of complexities
Understanding attitudes: furniture and architecture (the study of furniture and architectural
examples by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier)
Understanding of functional, material, and visual aspects of an architectural totality
Understanding of spatial dynamics of urban form made by culture, through time as an
overlaying of cultures: the influence on the ‘civic’ space of anachronistic civic institutions in
the Indian city today
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Understanding of the city: a human construct, as a process in time

Understanding space and its experience: Jahaz-mahal, Sarkhej complex, mill owners’
building
Understanding the change in the meaning of space from its Spatio-Tectonic context
Understanding the concept of place: an inquiry into the works of Finnish architect: Reima
Pietila
Understanding the nature of a city Delhi: a comparative reading for time and scale
Understanding the notion of place: a study of the Jami Mosque Complex and Sarkhej Roza,
Ahmedabad
Understanding the role of revolution in the development of architecture
Upanishadic-conceptions in the Hindu temple: a psycho-cognitive perspective
Upgrading squatter settlements: case study: Bombay.
Urban core: understanding its spatial manifestation in cultural context
Urban core revitalization/redevelopment context Ahmedabad: Manekchowk to the riverfront
Urban district: garden edge: redevelopment of the Victoria Garden edge, Ahmedabad.
Urban dynamics of Rajkot city
Urban edge as Mediator: understanding the experience of the Ghats in Banaras
Urban environment: a study of an urban block, Bohra community in Siddhpur town
Urban form and space in the Islamic city: a study of morphology and formal structures in the
city of Bhopal, Central-India
Urban housing: objective realities for the poor
Urban identity and conservation
Urban landmarks: a study of their role in urban organizations
Urban morphology & the concept of Type: a thematic & comparative study of the urban
tissue
Urban open spaces
Urban open spaces: an evaluation
Urban order as a cultural paradigm: an interpretation of the order in Ujjain
Urban public realm: a spatial manifest of culture: a study of the urban public realm of Ujjain
Urban public-realm: a methodology for analysis
Urban redevelopment of the railway station area, Ahmedabad.
Urban redevelopment project for the Nehru Bridge, Sardar Park edge
Urban space: structuring and imagery
Urban spaces
Urban spaces and city structure: a comparative study of the historical development of urban
spaces in Delhi
Urban spaces in Indian
Use of natural environment by the Ancient Indians: with particular reference to horticulture
Vernacular Architecture: A response to environment: case study: Kerala
Vernacular architecture: A study of concerning aspects and its reflections in contemporary
Indian architecture.
Vijayanagara architecture: temple forms of Hampi: its evolution and influences
Village study, a study of rural planning to establish the village centre. (Rural activity centre)
Visual order in cities: A case study of Udaipur
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Visual perception: A study about the internal conditions of the perceiver

Visual perceptive aspects of interior design: A comprehensive study of living room interiors
Wall as a metaphor in urban form
Water and architecture: A study of the medieval water tank at Viramgam
Water and architecture: the study of A traditional water system and water edges, Jodhpur
Way of the house: an insight into its concept
Western theatre: an evolution to reality
Westernization of domestic architecture in India: A study of Ahmedabad from 1818 AD-
1940AD
The wood architecture of Gujarat: case study Patan.
Wooden construction system in Gujarat
Work of Nari-Gandhi
Zoroastrian religious built form: an approach to nature and landscape