Education and Career Forum

It includes ancient india (indus valley civilization - art, culture, settlement pattern, Aryan migration - village and rudimentary forms of wood and bamboo), Buddhist architecture (introduction, hinayana, manayana Buddhism, factors that led to the development of forms in buildings, lomas rishi, architect during ashoka’s rule, pillar, sarnath sanchistupa, features, rock cut architecture in eastern and western ghats ellora, ajantha, udaigiri, karli) hindu architecture (evolution, early shrines of gupta and chalukya, papanatha and virupakasha temples, tanjore temple, kanchipura, mahabalipura, gopuram evolution, rameshwaram, Madurai, srirangam temples), indo Aryan style (features, sun temple, puri, lingaraja temple, kajuraho)

Paper Pattern: The question paper on History of Architecture has two parts or sections. In Part A, you have 8 questions, without any alternatives or choices for that matter, with 4 marks allotted to each of them. Whereas in Part B, there are 8 questions and you need to answer only 4 and each of them question in this part hold 12 marks each.

Duration of the exam: 3 hours

Maximum marks: 80