Sir JJ College Of Architecture, Mumbai

About Sir JJ College Of Architecture, Mumbai

Established in 1913, SJJCA is said to be the oldest art institute in Mumbai and has consistently enhanced its reputation through discipline and excellence in the field of architecture. Sir J. J. College of Architecture Mumbai is affiliated to the University of Mumbai, Maharashtra and its courses are approved by AICTE.

Sir J.J College of Architecture has long since established itself as the premier institution of architecture in our country. It is proud to have been the first college of architecture in Asia and has educated thousands of architects practicing all around the globe. It boasts of having educated architects who are now the chief founders of the architectural movement in India.

In 1913, one hundred years ago, architecture as a distinct discipline was recognized by the formation of a separate and independent Department of Architecture of the Sir JJ School of Art. Robert Cable was appointed as the first Professor of Architecture and headed the department until 1923. Cable, and his most distinguished successors, Professor Claude Batley 1923-43, Professor C. M. Master 1943-48 and Professor Solomon Reuben 1948-59 took the architectural department into a new modernist phase, making an impact on the city and the country at large with their own architectural practices, while educating several generations of architects who collectively transformed the city of Mumbai and gave a great reputation to the school as the finest architectural school in Asia.

In 1952, the department of architecture became a department of the University of Mumbai, and the school became the Sir JJ College of Architecture. In the last hundred years, the college has consistently excelled and has enhanced its reputation by having some very distinguished alumni including architects Padmashri Achyut Kanvinde and Padmashri Balkrishna Doshi.

Most appropriately, in this Centenary Year, Sir J.J. College of Architecture has been ranked the BEST architecture college in the country according to the independent 2013 Outlook-MDRA Poll results of the annual survey published in the July 1st 2013 issue. Our college has consistently been ranked in the top 3 architecture colleges in the country ever since the survey began around four years ago, and this is the first time we have topped the list.

The University of Mumbai has consistently supported our aims to architectural excellence through the last six decades.