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School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada

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योजना तथा वास्तुकला विद्यालय विजयवाडा
SPA Vijayawada
School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada Logo.jpg
Motto World is here and within Planning. Earth is our boundary and Architecture is our Culture
Established 7 July 2008
Type Autonomous
Director Dr. N. Sridharan
Academic staff
23 full-time, 41 visiting
Students 470
Location Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus Suburban, 4 acres (1.6 ha)
Urban, 7 acres (2.8 ha)
Colors Earthen Yellow     and White    
Affiliations NASA; NOSPlan
Website www.spav.ac.in
The School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada (SPA Vijayawada) is a higher education institute in Vijayawada, India, specializing education and research in the field of urban planning and architecture. It is one of the three School of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in 2008 as an autonomous institute and a fully Centrally Funded Technical Institution (CFTI).

History

The roots of the institute are with a report made by the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI), on the request of the Ministry of Human Resource Development regarding the establishment of more SPAs, in addition to the SPA Delhi, established 1959. Based on this report, the decision was made to establish two schools, in Bhopal and Vijayawada.[1] On 7 July 2008, SPA Vijayawada was established as an autonomous Centrally Funded Technical Institution (CFTI).

Campus

Initially, the school was operated out of a temporary campus in Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur till 2011, before moving to its current campus. In 2011, the foundation stone of the Vijayawada campus was laid by Daggubati Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development. The present campus is located at Nidamanuru, on National Highway 5, close to the Vijayawada Airport.[3] Expansion plans include building more hostels to accommodate the growing number of post graduate students, a state-of-the-art sports complex and residential quarters for doctoral students.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh is in the process of allotting nearly 60 acres of land, spread over two locations in and around Vijayawada, for the development of the school. Of this, the first 7.2 acres was handed over on February 22, 2010. In January 2012, design for the new campus was adopted as part of an all-India competition and it is proposed to develop it as an eco-friendly campus with state-of-the-art facilities. The proposed campus will comprise academic, co-curricular and residential facilities.

Governance

The school is being run under supervision and guidance of a board of governors. The board comprises members from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, Andhra Pradesh Government, two representatives of the Government of India from the fields of architecture and planning, representative of the Institute of Town Planners, Indian Institute of Architects, University Grants Commission, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and All India Council for Technical Education.[5]

Academics

The Institute conducts educational programmes leading to the degree of Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.), Bachelor of Planning (B. Plng.) Master of Architecture (M. Arch.), Master of Planning (M. Plan) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) in the following areas:
Degree Specialization
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) Architectural design and Building construction.[6]
Bachelor of Planning (B.Plng) Settlement design, developmental economics, photogrammtery and Remote Sensing, rural development, utilities and services planning, project planning, operations research, real estate valuation, disaster management, transport planning, housing, infrastructure planning, land use zoning and environmental monitoring.
Master of Architecture (M. Arch) Sustainable Architecture.
Master of Planning (M. Plng) Environmental Planning and Management
Master of Planning (M. Plan) Urban and Regional Planning
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) All Architecture and Planning disciplines, interdisciplinary areas, humanities and social sciences.

Admission

Admissions to the under graduate programme is through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, India.




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