Main entry:

Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed, author.

Title & Author:

The mother tongue of architecture : essays on architecture, urbanism, and culture : selected writings of Kazi Khaleed Ashraf / [Kazi Khaleed Ashraf].

Edition:

First ediiton.

Publication:

[Novato, CA] : ORO Editions ; Dhaka, Bangladesh : Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscape and Settlementts, [2024]
©2024

Description:

488 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: architecture in place -- On the Mother Tongue : Adnan Morshed ; Sonia Nishat Amin ; Kenneth Frampton ; Marina Tabassum ; Syed Manzoorul Islam -- Placing architecture : On Vastushilpa and the art of dwelling ; Looking for America ; From sacred groves to architectural paradigms ; Placing architecture, presencing architecture ; Terminal places ; Where is architecture ; The Buddha's House ; The architecture of asceticism ; Postmortem: building destruction ; Architecture's anxiety -- Architecture in Bangladesh : Architecture in Bangladesh ; Vastukala: the architecture of Muzharul Islam ; Land, water, and people in Bengal ; Wind, water, and clay: the architecture of Bangladesh ; Tropical trysts: an American architect in the Bengal Delta ; What now? The perpetual vigilance of Muzharul Islam ; Building Bangladesh: from building-form to landscape-form -- Waterness : Water as ground ; Wet narratives: architecture must recognize that the future is fluid ; When the Ganga becomes the Padma ; Thinking about mud -- On Louis Kahn : The National Capital Complex: Louis I. Kahn's architecture in Dhaka ; Taking place: landscape in the architecture of Louis Kahn ; Louis I. Kahn: the making of a room -- Architecture in India : Le Corbusier and India: an osmosis ; Geoffrey Bawa: an alternative architecture ; Reincarnations: modernity and modern architecture in South Asia ; Building the nation: the architecture of Achyut Kanvinde and Muzharul Islam ; Masala City: urban stories from south Asia ; Raga India: architecture in the time of euphoria ; Reading the wind and weather: the meteorological architecture of Studio Mumbai ; Sangath as a landscape event ; "Sheltered openness": the modern house in south Asia -- Cityness : Fifteen points for making Dhaka a city: a manifesto for a civic place ; Designing Dhaka: history of a future ; Hometown: the city in the postnational landscape ; We are the city ; Review of messy urbanism ; Conversations : "Signs and symbols. For whom?" a conversation with Muzharul Islam ; A Philadelphia architect in Dhaka, with Nathaniel Kahn ; Metrophilia: a love of the horizon line, with Dimitri Kim ; Architecture in Bangladesh and the legacy of Muzharul Islam with Aurélien Lemonier ; Legacies that we leave behind: an interview with Balkrishna Doshi.

ISBN:

1957183594 (hardcover)
9781957183596 (hardcover)

Subject:

Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed Authorship.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture India.
Architecture Designs and plans.
Architectural writing.
Architecture.
Architecture Inde.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Dessins et plans.
Architecture Art d'écrire.
architecture (discipline)
architectural drawings (visual works)
architectural theory.

Added entries:

Selected writings of Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319823
Call No.: 319823
Copy: 1
Status: Available