Meditations in entropy : the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA /
"Over three decades Kashef Chowdhury's Dhaka-based architecture practice has produces a diverse collection of works located in one of the world's most meteorologically challenging regions. Collected for the first time in this comprehensive monograph, this portfolio spans a wide gamut...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Z|rich :
Park Books,
[2026]
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| Summary: | "Over three decades Kashef Chowdhury's Dhaka-based architecture practice has produces a diverse collection of works located in one of the world's most meteorologically challenging regions. Collected for the first time in this comprehensive monograph, this portfolio spans a wide gamut of interests, issues, and contexts--ranging from museums and other cultural projects to climate change responses and large-scale public facilities, both in rural and hyperdense urban settings. From creating island-like landforms within the waterway of mighty rivers as shelter against flooding, to a hospital in an area severely affected by rising oceans, to an art campus in tropical Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury's designs are incisive, critical responses to dissimilar issues affecting the various typologies of works he undertakes in increasingly fragile ecologies. They reflect both a rising, expeditious economy and the strength of a culture thousands of years old"--From page [4] of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 514 pages : numerous illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783038603290 3038603295 |