Main entry:

Chowdhury, Kashef, artist.

Title & Author:

Meditations in entropy : the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA / with essays by Kenneth Frampton, Ainun Nishat, Robert McCarter, William J.R. Curtis, Philip Ursprung ; photographs by Hélène Binet.

Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, [2026]
©2026

Description:

514 pages : numerous illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
The Architecture of Kashef Chowdhury / Kenneth Frampton -- Climate Change and Charting a Path Forward / Ainun Nishat -- Critical Response -- Raised Villages -- Cyclone Shelter -- Friendship hospital -- " Rainbow Warrior" -- A Satellite Clinic -- Schools in the Rohingya Refugee Camps -- Glass Labyrinth -- The Shape of Time, the Endurance of Place, and the Excavation of Room / Robert McCarter -- Louis I. Kahn, In Celebration of Birth Centenary of South Plaza, National Assembly Building, Dhaka, 2001 -- Luxury of Light and Shadows -- Friendship Centre -- Pavilion Apartment -- University of Liberal Arts--New Campus Building -- Call of the Village -- The House -- The Mosque -- The Preschool -- Plot Number Fifty Six -- Modernity and the Strata of the Past / William J.R. Curtis -- 748 -- Spirit, Spirituality -- Gulshan Mosque -- Chandgaon Mosque -- Red Mosque -- Concrete Mosque -- Sub Specie Aeternitatis -- Museum of Independence and Independence Monument of Bangladesh -- Srihatta: Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park -- Materials for Exhibition Only -- Softest Earth / Philip Ursprung

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.

ISBN:

9783038603290 hardcover
3038603295 hardcover

Subject:

Chowdhury, Kashef.
Architecture Bangladesh.
Architecture, Bengali.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Frampton, Kenneth, contributor.
Nishat, Ainun, contributor.
McCarter, Robert, 1955- contributor.
Curtis, William J. R., contributor.
Ursprung, Philip, contributor.
Binet, Hélène, photographer.

Work of Kashef Chowdhury

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325344
Call No.: 325344
Copy: 1
Status: Available