Electives

Electives facilitate the students to broaden their understanding of the architectural world. They help students to explore multiple facets and streams allied with architecture & design. At Rizvi College of Architecture, the electives are designed to provide a platform for explorations and experimentations, innovative approaches and learning in architecture. The following electives were taken up last year –

  • Architectural Journalism
  • Urban Sketching
  • Urban Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Underrated art of storytelling
  • Cinema & Architecture
  • Cultural mapping of Bandra
  • Reading Architecture, Writing Architecture
  • Understanding Heritage & Conservation
  • Cities: Past & Present – The Happy City
  • Q-GIS 
  • Appreciating Arts, Gender & Architecture
  • Celebrating Geometric patterns in Islamic architecture
  • To Walk: Bandra
  • Documenting Mumbai through Images

The academic year 2023-24 began with the Elective week. The electives also facilitated the vertical integration between the semester 7 & 9 and semester 3 & 5. The electives were categorized as Systems, Narratives & Applied. The following were a part of this year’s elective week –

Systems:

  1. Out of the box – Sheela Bhole & Dilshad Tyabji
  2. Visual Design & Composition lessons in Cartography – Tania Shah & Fatema Master
  3. Placemaking – Meera Malegaonkar & Zainul Biviji
  4. Gastronomy & the City – Daksh Jain & Hanisha Chothani

Narratives:

  1. Cultural Mapping – Minaz Ansari & Uzma Khan
  2. Spatial Narratives – Vrinda Gokhale & Jigar Patel
  3. Documentary Filmmaking – Probuddha Mukhopadhyay
  4. Urban Green Mapping – Stuti Borwanker & Sailee Gosavi

Applied:

  1. Project Management – Shabbir Shakir & Reeza Shaikh
  2.  Horticulture as a Design tool – Sneha Udadar & Vivek Kodoor
  3.  Working with Wood – Altaf Pasha & Parvez Shaikh
  4.  Kath-Kuni Architecture – Swapnil Bhole