The Lost Chapter

Architecture!!

Architecture - The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.
This is what i first saw in my Inter second yr when my dad mentioned of this course during one of our morning walks along the army area. i fell so much in love with it that i used to keep chking the meaning of each word seperately to find something new about it!! Even during the jolly good days at LFJC when Brother James, the Principle, used to ask me my future plans i used to say proudly Architecture and when the next question came like a harpoon - How do u get into the course? i remained blank... i kept a tab on the second question with my friend and my present classmate Bhavana.... we kept finding our own sets of infomation which came in like packets of data and finally knit it together.... Destination ADA a.k.a. Academy of architecture and design... we had the fun days at ADA... all we did was sketch and color all day and take time off to go check what was cooking in Hotel Gulnar next door... this is where i started off my achitectural career not knowing what i was in for... atlast it was time for the aptitude test and my centre was at CBIT... was slightly femiliar with the campus as my sister studied at MGIT.... gave my test,had my 6 month holiday, became a sloth and stepped into CSIIT. I was always the spotlight for my seniors or shud i planely put it 'the Bakra'!! my unfortunate luck i kept bumping into them all the time... it all passed with my freshers... the next 2 sems was really fast and non productive... i kept longing for something i cud'nt reach for... and now dubiousness.... but the 4th and 5th sems were something i always dreamt i would do in arch. school... first my appointment as Unit Secretary that came in as a shocker to me and then the trips that followed... i came largely to be know as the traveller by my school friends as they envied me for enjoying my course... of all of such trips made to various places in spans of 2-3 months i most cherish Auroville... it was a 15 day getaway to the town where we were sent on a workshop on Arch and dome construction.... i've never done something like that before and to top it all.... No Faculty on the trip!!! Yippeee!! i did everything but the course at auroville.... On my way back before i got off at the station there was a sudden thought that came to my mind.... What would happen to my friends after this course... what would happen to me!!! Where is Architecture taking us all??...

posted by Siddharth Krish @ 1:51 AM