BEGINNING OF

MODERN
INSTITUTES OF
ARCHITECTURE
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

NAME: DIMCY GUPTA

CLASS: III YR.
ROLL NO.: 13

Sir JJ College of Architecture

Established in 1913, it was Asia's first architecture school,
attached with Sir J. J. School of Art, itself established in 1896. In
1958, Sir J. J. School of Art was divided, with the Departments of
Architecture and Applied Art becoming the Sir J. J. College of
Architecture and Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art respectively.

In the second half of the 19th century, architectural learning

was integrated with an art education that followed the
Beaux Arts School of sculptural ornament and architectural
detailing.
In 1913, one hundred years ago, architecture as a distinct
discipline was recognized by the formation of a separate and
independent Department of Architecture of the Sir JJ School
of Art.
Robert Cable was appointed as the first Professor of
Architecture and headed the department until 1923. Cable,
and his most distinguished successors, Professor Claude
Batley (1923-43), Professor C. M. Master (1943-48) and
Professor Solomon Reuben (1948-59) took the architectural
department into a new modernist phase, making an impact
on the city and the country at large with their own
architectural practices, while educating several generations of
architects who collectively transformed the city of Mumbai
and gave a great reputation to the school as the finest
architectural school in Asia.

 In 1952, the department of architecture became a

department of the University of Mumbai, and the school
became the Sir JJ College of Architecture. In the last hundred
years, the college has consistently excelled and has
enhanced its reputation by having some very distinguished
alumni including architects Padmashri Achyut Kanvinde and
Padmashri Balkrishna Doshi.

Indian institute of Architects

The Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) is the national body of
Architects in the country. Having started in the year 1917, the
institute today has more than 15000 members. The Institute
has a major role to play in promoting the profession of
architecture by organising and uniting in fellowship the
Architects of India to promote aesthetic, scientific and practical
efficiency of the profession both in Practice and in Education.
IIA is represented on various national and international
committees connected with architecture, art and the building
industry and is also actively associated with International Union
of Architects (UIA) Commonwealth Association of Architects
(CAA) and South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation of
Architects (SAARCH).

The history of The Indian Institute of Architects is one of

absorbing interest. Unfolding the scenes throughout the
years, it speaks in its manifold aspects, of the struggles
and influence of architectural education from one
solitary centre throughout India, of the rebirth and
youth of a profession which the Country had almost
forgotten, of a struggle for existence and the need to
have the meaning and value of Architecture and
architectural service understood and attempts and
experiments towards a new stage in the architecture of
the country. In the Renaissance or reawakening of India,
the Institute has its due place in the sphere of
Architecture.

Its history is also one of men with vision and ideals, men
who had at heart, the welfare of architecture and the
profession and who with such a goal, helped to lay and
build up the foundations of an architectural future
fraught with the finest possibilities conceivable.
On May 12, 1917, George Wittet, by then Consulting Architect to
the Government of Bombay, was unanimously elected as the first
President of The Indian Institute of Architects, an association
made of the past students of Architecture of Sir J.J. School of
Art, then known as "The Architectural Students Association". On
3 August 1922, it was rechristened 'Bombay Architectural
Association', which got associated with the Royal Institute of
British Architects in 1925, and in 1920 became a National body
under a new name, 'Indian Institute of Architects' on 2
September 1929, registered under the Societies Registration Act
XXI of 1860 as a voluntary organisation of Architects. The only
other organisation at the national level is the Council of
Architecture established under the Architects Act 1972 with the
statutory duty of Registration.