Exit Exhibition

Initiatives

The EXIT EXHIBITION was conceived in the year 2016 as a platform for students to showcase their academic work of 5 years (B. Arch) & 2 year ( M Arch) in public domain (two panels of 3’ x 7’ each along with physical models.)

Various professionals from the field invited for this event are able to interact with the students and review their work giving students an opportunity for placements.

This four-day event is an unique opportunity for the students to create a channel of interaction across all professions and strata of society.  This expands the landscape of students’ projects and encourages employment prospects to graduating students. The exhibition also provides young aspirants a view into the architectural domain.

Inaugural Session:

The inaugural day of the Exit Exhibition is unveiled by two eminent personalities – one from the architectural fraternity and the other a well-known persona who has significantly contributed to the society in her/his chosen field.

Concluding Session:

This four-day event is concluded by “ARCHITECTURE AS A CAREER” to guide students, aspiring to pursue architecture as a career to make mature and informed decisions

The exhibition kept evolving and by 2019 three more sessions are added, as part of th – “YOUNG PRACTICES” where students interact with young practitioners from architecture and allied fields on the challenges and opportunities in pursuing one’s dream in start-up practice. “CAREERS BEYOND”, sets up a discussion forum with professionals who provide career guidance insights, potential of specialized disciplines and studying in India and abroad and “VALUES & ETHICS OF THE PROFESSION” focussing the questions of values and ethics right from thinking about the very purpose of architecture to its practice. It also launched the EXIT BOOK,an anthology of academic work produced by the students.

In the year 2020we plan to shift the Exit Exhibition to online platforms instead of the traditional physical exhibitions. This would continue to not only let our students display their work and theories, but also attract a larger audience group cutting across all geographical boundaries. 

Inaugurated by Mr. Kunal Kumar (IAS), Honourable Municipal Commissioner, PMC, Pune,and Ar. Christopher Benninger, Architect and Planner, Pune.

It is organized by the Institute every year at the end of the term in April.

EXIT 2022 

The institute’s annual Exit Exhibition 2022 , the 7th edition, was held on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th July 2022 at the Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Smarak located at Padmavati on Satara road to make the graduating batch’s work available in the “Public Domain”. 

This year the inauguration event on day one, was hosted by Prof. Shekhar Garud in the presence of esteemed members of the management Adv. Abhay Chhajed, Shri. Indrakumar Chhajed, Ar. Vikas Bhandari & Shri. Jitendra Pitaliya. Ar. Prasanna Desai, Director PVPCoA, spoke of the importance of the event, the concept behind the exit exhibition and extended a warm welcome to the guests. The event was graced by chief guest Shri. Rajesh Patil ( Hon. Municipal Commissioner, PCMC) and guest of honour Ar. Vishwas Kulkarni ( Founder & Director VK: architecture, Pune).

At the event, the commissioner gracefully looked at all the work put up by the students and took particular interest in projects addressing issues with respect to Public Spaces. After lighting the lamp and felicitation of the guests the two guests took turns to address the gathering and spoke about their life experiences and humble beginnings. Shri. Rajesh Patil spoke of his younger days as a student and his learnings from postings in remotest parts of the country. He inspired students to become part of this country’s solutions and stressed on the importance of recognising the hidden wisdom with our indegenous population. 

Ar. Vishwas Kulkarni on the other hand spoke of necessary ethics in the profession and various stages in his 5 decade long illustrious career.

At this event the Chief Guest also released the book “ Exit 2022 “ a compilation of the all the thesis projects of the batch of 2022 in the form of abstracts and drawings. 

Day 2, 9th July 2022

Day 2 was dotted with continuous visitors and culminated with a special event in the evening dedicated to the alumni of the college. Hosted by Prof. Prerna Shetty, under the theme “Carving your Niche”, these young architects spoke of how they headed in varied directions and how architectural education allowed them these lateral approaches. Ar. Isha Chaudhari spoke of  the beginnings of her choice to be a writer by the day and musician by the night. Second speaker of the day, Ar. Sanket Munshi spoke of highlights in his career and the importance of finding a Mentor and surrendering oneself to their mentorship. The last session was spearheaded by Ar. Ronak Naik, founder of Chlorophyll studio. He took the audience on a colourful journey of alternative construction practices, creating puzzles, designing jewellery and working on a book yet to be published.

Day 3, 10th July 2022

Sunday morning was marked with another important event titled “Careers beyond Architecture”. The main focus of this session was addressing challenges associated with stepping into a world of opportunities. Prof. Niranjan Garde hosted this session dotted with 4

professionals’ illustrious careers. Ar. Dwaipayan Chakravarty spoke of the need to take a pause to think, identifying the intent after graduation and finding one’s own identity. This was followed by Ar. Sarang Yadwadkar & Ar. Shivram Somasundaram, focusing on why Architecture is one of the best courses and importance of advertising and putting yourself out  there, how essential a skill it is, respectively. This section also addressed how architecture ought to be a response to nature and not something that just deals with fancy thoughts and ideas. 

Following these and before a rather engaging Q&A session, Ar. Yogesh Dandekar spoke about the value of having good emotional quotient and how important it is to choose the right place of work for yourself. The session ended with concluding remarks by Ar. Prasanna Desai,   Director PVPCoA.