The founders of the School of Architecture had a most daring and unusual perception of their task. They emphasized learning rather than teaching, and saw the place of learning as one where there were no boundaries, no hierarchies and a complete atmosphere of free and unhampered inquiry. Naturally, they thought of a campus that demonstrated and facilitated that outlook.
This exhibition documents a dual movement: a search and for a model of education, and the simultaneous search for an architecture appropriate to the idea of learning.
It is rare that there is such a close relation between programmatic development and architectural evolution. CEPT is fortunate to have been such a process [where] the same minds think of the quality of an institution and its architectural form.
In the 50 years between 1962 and 2012, the School of Architecture grew into CEPT University, and its founders, many faculty members and students played an active role in designing and making the campus. All this was done under the direction of Balkrishna V. Doshi, founding member, first Director, Dean Emeritus as well as Architecture of the Campus Planning, under the banner of his architectural practice known at various times as Vastu Shilpa, Stein Doshi Bhalla Architects and Sangath.
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- Making a Campus for Creative Learning: An Exhibition of Prof. B.V.Doshi's Architectural Studies, Drawings and Models of CEPT Campus, 1962-2012. Ahmedabad: Students' Council, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, 2014.