Rizvi College of Architecture was established in August 1992 by Dr. Akhtar Hasan Rizvi, the well known builder and developer, in keeping with his cherished dream of setting up a network of academic institution that would develop into a modern university.

Rizvi College of Architecture has been affiliated with the University of Mumbai and has been granted approval by the AICTE for its five year Degree Course in Architecture with an annual intake of 40 students. Rizvi College of Architecture aims to evolve into a school of architectural thought focussing on the human, socio-cultural, environmental, scientific and technological, aesthetic and philosophical values. The academic programme of the College follows the syllabus of the University of Mumbai. The courses are structured to orient the studies in a range of contexts, which includes rural, urban, metropolitan, regional, national and international. Architecture as a synthesis in space and time calls for focussing on the heritage and conservation issues on one side and the innovative and developmental aspects on the other.

Rizvi College of Architecture has a faculty with rich national and international professional experience and a high standard of academic background. The faculty consists of full-time core faculty and part-time visiting faculty ensuring a higher faculty student ratio than 1:10 as required by the AICTE. Professor Akhtar Chauhan FIIA, architect planner, is the founder principal of the college.

The academic programme of Rizvi College of Architecture is supported by a related studies programme and extra-curricular activities to give an all round education and training to the students. The objective is to develop their creative skills and holistic knowledge. The annual calendar includes monthly exhibition of student and faculty works, guest lectures, seminars, workshops, study tours and events like Rizvi Arch Fest, Rizvi Arch Expo and International Conference on Humane Habitat, where architects, students and faculty of other colleges of the city participate actively.

The College is located in Rizvi Educational complex, a cosmopolitan urban community in Rizvi Complex, Sherly Village, off Carter Road at Bandra west, Mumbai. It is approachable conveniently from Bandra and Khar railway stations in the Western Railway and by BEST buses, which run with a high frequency. The 3 Kms. bus-ride hardly takes 10 minutes. The college is located in a pollution-free environment near the Arabian Sea.


Message from President

The noble profession of architecture calls for creative and dedicated persons who are charged with a constructive urge to shape a humane environment to live in. Architecture, as an art and science of built-environment, has a crucial role to play in the process of development.

India, with its 5000 years old architectural heritage, has been in the forefront of development in various periods of its evolution. Since independence, with rapid economic development, industrial growth and urbanization, there is an ever-increasing demand for talented architects and related professionals to plan, design and manage the built-environment.

Rizvi Education Society is committed to the goals and objectives of national development. As part of this mission of human development, education and training of young citizens has been taken up in various fields of knowledge such as arts, science, commerce, architecture engineering and management.

Rizvi College of Architecture was established in August 1992 and it is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The College offers a five years Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and is recognized by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and the Council of Architecture (COA). The College has taken up the challenging task of evolving into a prime school of thought in the field of Architecture. Rizvi Education Society provides the necessary financial, technical and human resource infrastructure to develop the College as one of the most progressive centre of architecture learning. Within the short period of its inception, the College has already developed professional links with leading schools and colleges in India and abroad. Rizvi College of Architecture is one of the three institutions to have prestigious, parts I and II, recognition of the Commonwealth Association of Architects.

The College aims to develop an all round character and creativity among its students. The students of the college have won the Gold Medal of the University of Mumbai and have been in the merit list. The graduates of the college have won national and local awards for their design, heritage studies and environmental improvement schemes. In an era of globalisation the college prepares the students and graduates to face the challenges and complex tasks of shaping living environment for the 21st Century.

Dr.Akhtar Hasan Rizvi
President
Rizvi Education Society



MISSION STATEMENT

Rizvi College of Architecture is an integral part of national mission for human development through education. The prime goal of the educational programme is to prepare students for a professional role as architects in the service of humanity.

An architect has to play multiple roles in the field of built environment. However, his primary responsibility is to co-ordinate design endeavour. This requires development of leadership quality as design and planning involves teamwork. The team includes architects, planners, interior designers and landscape architects, structural and services engineers, construction and project management consultants, legal, finance and other consultants.

The College has long-term plans to offer post-graduate and doctoral programmes in various specializations in the related fields such as housing, urban design, urban and regional planning, architectural heritage conservation, interior architecture and landscape architecture.

The most essential part of the mission strategy is to develop an all round awareness of the complex issues involved in shaping of built-environment, and to equip the students with knowledge and insight to meet the challenges of development and conservation, of continuity of relevant traditions and effecting through appropriate innovation in a variety of human, social, economic, technical and environmental contexts. The mission aims at development of sincere professionals with a high standard of morals and ethics, intellectual honesty, clarity of thought and with a spirit of innovative and creativity.