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Design methodology-Teaching and evaluation methods------------April`90. “ A TEACHER CAN NEVER TRULYTEACH, UNLESS HE IS STILL LEARNING HIMSELF. A LAMP CAN NEVER LIGHT ANOTHER LAMP, UNLESS IT CONTINUES TO BURN ITS OWN FLAME”. --TAGORE. Owing to the abstract and varied definitions of architecture, the society in general is prone to undermine architects and architectural education in relation to human welfare. While this lack of appreciation coming from an inability to attain a proper perspe...

Design methodology-Teaching and evaluation methods------------April`90. “ A TEACHER CAN NEVER TRULYTEACH, UNLESS HE IS STILL LEARNING HIMSELF. A LAMP CAN NEVER LIGHT ANOTHER LAMP, UNLESS IT CONTINUES TO BURN ITS OWN FLAME”. --TAGORE. Owing to the abstract and varied definitions of architecture, the society in general is prone to undermine architects and architectural education in relation to human welfare. While this lack of appreciation coming from an inability to attain a proper perspective is readily understandable; few individuals have opportunity to observe architect’s multifarious responsibilities in his varied functions and full imprint of architecture on the daily life of people every where. Learning and education has its roots from the primitive man, whose noble intentions of letting others know of his experiences, through the art of cave drawing, painting, or engraving images of animals, depiction of birds in motion and of the hunt, the decoration of weapons tools and utensil...

EARTH QUAKE I wish I were a fish; I could swim in water, I wish I were a bird; I could fly in sky, I wish I were an earthworm merrying underground. I was out there, one with the nature enjoying the bliss, Then came Sun, wind, rain and birds and animals, Along with the need, greed and fear; The process created my space, I enclosed myself, Slowly shearing myself away from nature And I wished I could live in the nest on a tree and enjoy the freedom again; I realized that the space I had created and enclosed had Ritually fossilated into a structure and then the earth shook, Wind blew, water flooded, fire spread and space merged; I think I am human and not a worm or bird or fish Now, I worry about my safety and Sun and Wind and Rain And Fire and Quakes and Plates and Tectons and what not? I wish I were a fish; I could swim in water, I wish I were a bird; I could fly in sky, I wish I were an earthworm merrying underground. K.R.Ganesh- 25-05-2001.