The Department of Civil Engineering initiated a B.Arch Course in the year 1989. Prof. G.V.S.Sai is instrumental in establishing the Division, which was inagurated by Sri D.V. Subba Rao, Mayor, and Visakhapatnam on 23^rd October 1989. Independent Department status was confirmed on 9^th April 2001. The faculty of the department has strived hard to establish a strong department. Since, architecture as a profession deals with the creation of a comfortable physiological and psychological living environment, it is very important to train the students with a holistic and futuristic perspective. With this in view, the department had developed a curriculum, which aims at exposing the students to various fields of architecture and its allied fields.   

      The Department has encouraged students to interact with various Organizations. The faculty and students conducted a Zonal level convention in October 2000.  The Department conducted exhibitions to bring awareness of Architecture to the Public on various occasions, and also conducted with All India Institute of Architects (AIIA) on various occasions is organizing seminars, exhibitions and even National convention held during 2001. The highlights of the convention were the fund-supporting building material exhibition, the Visakhapatnam heritage and modern architectural exhibition. The convention also conducted workshops on the use of concrete fly ash for building, computer aided design & drafting and building openings.

       The faculty of the department is actively involved in consultancy work. The focus of the work is in the areas of architecture design studios, Computer Aided Design, Town planning, climatology (energy efficient built environment), landscape design, interior design and ecology.

      The Department also  offers one Postgraduate course specialization in M. Planning (environmental) started in 2006 The department is very active in industrial and technical consultancy. it scaled to the present status.

Vision of the Department:

         To train and educate the student to become successful professionals in the field of architecture, to sensitize them and make them responsive to their environment and society within which they have to create a sustainable built environment.

Long term Vision

• To impart architectural practices for sustainable development.

• To remain at the fore front of building and construction technology.

• To become an active contributor in the field of sustainable built environment and infrastructural development of country.

• To allow a natural germination of ideas in the students by encouraging group activities that helps them to communicate and develop skills of response and restraint.

Objectives of the course
 Mission of the department

                The mission of the department is to develop the student’s ability to harness his creative skills through latest scientific knowledge, design a humane built environment that responds to the local context.

             Broad objectives of the course:

• Syllabus designed to link the studio projects to the theory subjects, to give a scientific grounding to the ideas of the students.

• Extensive case studies conducted for design projects to enable the students to get first hand experience of the built environment and sensitize them o the social, cultural, psychological and economical impacts of the built spaces have on us.

• Enabling of self-assessment to seminars and discussions, which form the basis of all the studio subjects.

• Study tours are conducted to give the students an exposure to the Indian architectural ethos, its diversity, richness and beauty.

• Computer aided design is imparted to enable the students to use an effective tool to express their ideas in the most comprehensive manner.

Current validity of the course

Today architectural education generates conviction which allows them to transcend the limits of style and fashion and make architecture a language that is humane response for creating an environment that alleviates the human spirit and engenders a unity in society while respecting the diversity that gives it excitement and color.