{"id":23707,"date":"2015-07-29T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=23707"},"modified":"2015-07-29T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:04:30","slug":"startup-design-villages-to-come-up-in-trivandrum-kochi-and-kozhikode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/startup-design-villages-to-come-up-in-trivandrum-kochi-and-kozhikode\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Startup Design Villages&#8217; to come up in Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Chapter of the Indian Institute of Architecture (IIA) will set up \u2018Startup Architecture and Design Villages\u2019 in major cities in Kerala.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Startup Design Villages will come up at Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode with the support of Kerala Startup Mission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Startup Design Villages will come up at Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode with the support of Kerala Startup Mission. These start-up villages will be provided with all infrastructural facilities and each of these would have seating for around 50 professionals. Apart from architects, the centre will also have other related professionals such as structural engineers and service engineers who will provide valuable service to architects and design engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The start-up village architecture and design will be developed in a phased manner to accommodate more professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an encouraging scenario that Kerala could rise to the level of providers of architectural services for the whole world, along the lines of the IT field. The young architects will be ready to start practice on their own, with about two years\u2019 training under prominent architects,\u201d said BR Ajit, the new Chairman of IIA.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago Kerala had only around 5 architecture schools. Now the number has risen to 35 and by next year their number will rise to 40. It is estimated that within 3 years, around <strong>1,500 young architects<\/strong> will start coming out of these schools every year with Degrees in Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Chapter of the Indian Institute of Architecture (IIA) will set up \u2018Startup Architecture and Design Villages\u2019 in major cities in Kerala. The Startup Design Villages will come up at Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode with the support of Kerala Startup Mission. The Startup Design Villages will come up at Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-23707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}