School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Planning Block of the institute
Established	1941
Type	Deemed University
Dean	Nalini M Thakur
Director	Chetan Vaidya
Location	New Delhi, India
Affiliations	NASA; NOSPlan
Website	Official website

School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi (SPA Delhi) is a premier higher education institute located in New Delhi, India specializing in education and research in the field of Planning and Architecture.It is the top ranked college in India for architecture and also the seventh best in Asia. It forms a part of the league along with the other two SPAs in India: the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal and the School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada.
It is a National Resource Institute of In

History

The School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi was started in 1941 as the Department of Architecture of the Delhi College of Engineering now the Delhi Technological University (DTU). In 1959 it was merged with the School of Town and Country Planning (established 1955), renamed to its current name and affiliated to the University of Delhi.^[1] In 1979 the institute was granted Deemed University status.^[2] In 2008, Government of India established two more SPAs, namely SPA Bhopal and SPA Vijaywada. In 2014, Lok Sabha passed a bill to make all the three SPAs "centre of excellence" on the pattern of IITs and IIMs.^[3]

Campus

The current SPA Delhi campus is split in two blocks one each for Planning and Architecture. Both these blocks are housed near ITO in Indraprastha Estate in New Delhi. The residential campus and hostels are located in New Friends Colony, Maharani Bagh, Delhi.

Library

The institute has an extremely organized resourceful library also providing online access to e-journals. The two libraries of SPA Delhi together house an invaluable collection of 80,157 books, built up over a period of five decades.

Academics

The school offers planning, architecture and design courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. While the Bachelor of Architecture course is one of the oldest in the country, highly successful Bachelor of Planning course was started in 1989. Besides, the school offers 10 postgraduate programmes and two undergraduate programmes along with the doctoral programmes run by all the departments of studies.
Undergraduate degree programmes

• Bachelor of Architecture
• Bachelor of Planning

Postgraduate degree programmes

• Master of Architectural Conservation
• Master of Urban Design
• Master of Design (Industrial Design)
• Master of Planning with specialization in
  • Environmental Planning
  • Housing
  • Regional Planning
  • Transport Planning
  • Urban Planning
• Master of Building Engineering and Management
• Master of Landscape Architecture