assumptions, and to position themselves intellectually in relation to various physical and cultural world context. We want to develop School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal as ‘University of Imagination’ where a sense of enquiry will prevail amongst all stakeholders- students, researchers, professors and society at large. Our primary method of enquiry will remain ‘design’: the speculative design of buildings and investigative design of settlements. This attitude would run through our Bachelor of Architecture and Planning programmes and higher professional degrees through a curriculum comprised of specific areas of study supporting the design studio. Together with design, studies in Technology, Humanities, Professional Practices and Social Sciences will form a model for integrated education in Architecture and Planning. While the School talks about striving for social, cultural and environmental sustenance, we recognize that in India, sustainability is the bedrock of our inclusive development. School will adopt newer concept of universal design, green design, conservation and will continue to draw inspiration from history.
Our programmes will be competitive to enter, challenging to go through and cutting–edge on relevance and rigour. Our response to changes in the society around us will be research and evidence based. We are establishing state of art laboratories and starting an internationally refereed research journal called ‘SPANDREL’ to nurture an environment of research in our institute. The spirit of entire curriculum at SPA Bhopal will suggest that it is possible to affect global architectural culture through local practice. We believe that India is creating its own new grounds of global learning and practice out of its own diversity, complexity and philosophy.
Read More 
