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The House That Kahn Built - (Hardcover)

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  • Kashef Chowdhury's fascination for Kahn's parliamentary building in Dhaka inspired this volume of photo essays.
  • About the Author: Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1970 and has a degree in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
  • 116 Pages
  • Architecture, Individual Architects & Firms

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Kashef Chowdhury's fascination for Kahn's parliamentary building in Dhaka inspired this volume of photo essays. Kahn's design is characterized by an innovative architectural language that combines western and eastern traditions, forms and materials.

Working from his Urbana practice in Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury designs architecture that is rooted in the history and nature of its location - whereby the latter also relates to a spiritual and cultural level. This explains his fascination for Kahn's parliamentary building in Dhaka, which inspired this volume of photo essays.

Kahn's design is characterized by an innovative architectural language that combines western and eastern traditions, forms and materials. For instance, in view of the great importance of water in Bengali tradition, he placed the building complex by an artificial lake. Furthermore, although it is defined by strict geometrical forms, the parliamentary building reflects the transcendental nature of the National Assembly, defining the hopeful founding years of the independent state of Bangladesh.



About the Author



Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1970 and has a degree in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. His work experiments with the expressive and technological potential of modernism in an era and a land that give it new meaning. His projects with Urbana, founded in Dhaka in 1995, show research on materials, attention for the climate, and the favoring of artistic content, something that is also found in his parallel practice of photography.
Dimensions (Overall): 13.39 Inches (H) x 11.02 Inches (W)
Weight: 1.78 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 116
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: Individual Architects & Firms
Publisher: Quart Publishers
Theme: Essays
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Street Date: August 5, 2025
TCIN: 1004318433
UPC: 9783037613375
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-6598
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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