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A mid-career monograph for Bangladeshi master architect Rafiq Azam focusing on the urban transformation of Dhaka, with a foreword by renowned architect and historian Kenneth B. Frampton. Acclaimed architect Rafiq Azam (b. 1963) has been instrumental over the course of his storied career in transforming the urban landscape in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka. Azam’s signature style finds harmony between cultural and spiritual traditions, local craftsmanship and materials, and the country’s complex natural environment. No design element is too small to be poetically incorporated into his buildings and city planning projects. His attention to light and shadow, bodies of water, indigenous vegetation, and air flow shows the influence of Bengali mysticism. In 1995, Azam founded his own internationally renowned architectural firm, SHATOTTO “Architecture for Green Living,” dedicated to creating responsible buildings while educating different community stakeholders to value environmentally conscious innovation and sustainable practices. This groundbreaking volume contains Azam’s most significant public and private projects in Dhaka, alongside his other major South Asian projects in Malaysia and Bhutan. Illustrations accompanied by insightful commentary sit alongside an extensive conversation with Azam on decades of design thinking and large-scale, community-focused practice in the “new” Bangladesh.

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Kenneth B. Frampton, CBE, is a British architect, critic, and historian, and the Ware Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in New York. Shamsul Wares is a professor in the department of architecture at the State University of Bangladesh. Fuad H. Mallick is a professor and dean of the School of Architecture and Design at BRAC University in Dhaka. Rosa Maria Falvo is an independent writer and curator, specializing in Asia Pacific and Middle East publications and projects. Philip Goad is a distinguished professor and chair of architecture in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, at the University of Melbourne in Australia. George Kunihiro is a professor emeritus of architecture at the Kokushikan University in Tokyo, and the principal architect of T-Life Environmental Lab in Osaka.

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