Architectural Design (INDA)

INDA, the International Program in Design and Architecture, is a four-year, English language program offered by the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University. INDA was founded in 2006 to meet a growing demand for English language instruction that would better prepare students for graduate study abroad. 

Like many schools of architecture, INDA has a core curriculum providing essential instruction in design and communication, history and theory, and architectural construction and environmental technology courses. It further complements these with a range of courses designed to instill awareness about the unique characteristics of the region, including Tropical Architecture, Southeast Asian Architecture, Architecture Community Ecology, and Urban Design.

Although architecture is its principal topic of study, INDA aims to show how architecture connects to other disciplines, such as landscape architecture and urban design, and thus how architecture is representative of design disciplines in general. It also aims to instill in students fundamental design skills such as creative and critical problem solving, an awareness of the role of design at a community level, and an ability to cope with the changing demands of the design professions in the 21st century both locally and globally.