It is a land of tremendous contrasts, mystique and adventure. It is this complexity and paradox that makes India very attractive and inviting for a traveler. It is one of the many alternatives to one-year long off campus programs available to students in the Architecture Department.
Students can participate in maxium of four such short programs in a given academic year.
This program is offered durnig Winter quarter and is available to 4th year Architecture students. As an exchange program it facilitates Indian Architecture Students to visit Cal Poly campus during Fall quarter and the Cal Poly students to visit the Pune University in Winter quarter. Five weeks of staying in the city of Pune in Maharashtra State on central west coast of India, near Bombay. Pune is a an educational center in India known for its place in the history, for its cultural diversity, its beautiful location and the climate. Students also visit contemporary architecture of Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Charles Corea, Bal Doshi and other notable Indian Architects in Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.