Intelligence Report of the Mechanics and Dynamics of the SPA UD Competition

Operation Pink Oleander.

Intel derived by spy-master Richtofen from:

Proprietary Architexturez Centrifuge Technology and agents on the ground.

Classification: Medium Secret

Recepients: Shibani Bose, Gaurav Sharma, jaya garella, Sharat Kaicker, Atul Lakra

Status: Eyes Only

 

Intel from – Architexturez Centrifuge [This technology is soon going to change the way information is harvested and analysed]

 

SPA has been derecognized from the CoA, the AICTE and the UGC as of march 2007. The first steps towards it began in 2004, after multiple financial defaults and in-action by the university. The university constantly cited lack of funds about basic maintenance, etc.

The authority [ministry, UGC, etc] contended that huge amounts of funds were being pumped into the college.

There was a subsequent informal inspection of the premises only [not the books] It was observed by certain prominent members of the committee inspecting that if the school replaced the fuses it used, and maintained building services better, they would save enough in electricity bills to make up most of the maintenance budgetary deficits they were screaming of. This observation was made walking about the buildings, with calculations made on the back of a napkin.

This opened up a pandora’s box and a subsequent series of investigations.

The wolves closed in

Contention 1: SPA was created with the same logic as the IIT’s, IIM’s. NIFT’s, NID’s etc. It was meant to self-replicate and self-sustain over a period of time, and become a beacon of knowledge and expertise about the built environment

Contention 2: so far 2200 crores have been pumped into SPA by the state in equivalence value. The usual logic is that a government institution gives more than that back to the state in terms of professionals and expertise and therefore taxes and octroi value. SPA has failed in this count

Contention 3: over the last 10 years, SPA has become rudderless, ungoverned and unmaintained, spiralling down in stature. Last year, for 60 odd seats, 75 forms were sold

Contention 4: in unquantifiable stature, SPA does not count anywhere in the worldwide community of prominent architectural institutions

The solutions proposed were:

1.       Pull the plug on SPA, disband it  and reboot the university move

2.       Let SPA be. Starve the loser, feed the winners and make other epicentres of scalable learning

To add the final dagger-thrust the land at vasant kunj was mentioned – which SPA had been doing nothing about.

Do something about it – OR GIVE IT BACK!!! They screamed.

The SPA UD competition was born

 

Intel from – Agents on the ground – inside and outside SPA

1.       This is an Ideas competition only

2.       Likelihood of it being built next to nothing – chances ~5%

3.       Urban Intent-only competition – not necessarily ‘architectural’ design competition

4.       If at all it gets ‘implemented’, it will be done so by a special ‘projects’ cell created in the institution under CPWD-like guidelines

5.       The jury is ‘rigged’. MKA operating with a shadow-front is tipped to get the winning entry

6.       MM is slated to lead the special projects cell if at all this project gets implemented

 

NOW DESTROY! NOW DESTROY! NOW DESTROY!