Name: Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana in Bangladesh
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Author: Kenneth Frampton
ISBN: 9783038603290

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Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana in Bangladesh

Type

Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9783038603290

Synopsis "Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana in Bangladesh"

This book documents the innovative work of the Dhaka-based practice Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA as it adapts to the reality of climate change. Over three decades, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh's southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the world's densest metropolitan areas; Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA's designs are incisive, critical responses to dissimilar issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, our increasingly fragile ecological condition. Meditations in Entropy is the first comprehensive book on the work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA. It features sixteen of the firm's designs in detail through photographs by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet and numerous plans, drawings, sketches, and other images.

Kenneth Frampton

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Kenneth Frampton (1930) studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and has been a professor at universities around the world. Author of numerous books and essays on the history and theory of architecture, among them is his famous Critical History of Modern Architecture (1980), as well as his more recent Studies on Tectonic Culture (1995) and the collection of essays Labour, Work and Architecture (2002). In 2018, he was awarded for his professional career with the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.

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