The following view on the unpaid architectural internships in India was posted by Shruthi Ramakrishna on Made in Earth Collective’s Instagram handle.
ArchitectureLive! and (National Association for Students of Architecture, India) NASA, India have entered an MoU to make internships and jobs easier for students and fresh architects in India.
In India, the need to include internship as a part of the undergraduate degree programme arises more from the shortcomings of the professional licensing system than from the intrinsic requirements of education.
Biome Environmental Solutions shares some tips on Architectural Portfolios for Internships.
Are we preparing our new generations to look deeper? Search more broadly? Are we getting them interested in thinking and working beyond self-sustenance?
Some Important Dos and Don’ts on Architectural Internships: shared by Gita Sarma Balakrishnan and Vidhya Gopal
An internship is crucial to the making of good professionals. However, very little onus is taken by colleges to oversee the process.
Chitra Vishwanath opines: The office needs commercial success to retain the practice – it is not an ‘Institute’ to either teach or provide a knowledge sharing platform. Further, architectural education is a long, drawn-out process and is never finished.
Internships – a quintessential part of an architectural education – are increasingly becoming an unmitigated ordeal for many within the community, affecting both students and
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