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50 years of architecture in Bangladesh / edited by Nasreen Hossain and Mahmudul Anwar Riyad.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Dhaka : University Press Limited, c2021.Description: 372 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9789845063845
Other title:
  • Fifty years of architecture in Bangladesh
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA1510.8 .B3F54 2021
Contents:
Foreword; Story of Architecture in the Then East Pakistan with Reference to the Critical Condition that Prevailed in British India: Shamsul Wares; Western Architects in East Pakistan: The Changing Notion of ‘White Man’s Burden’: Farhan S. Karim; Dhaka’s Urban Ecstasy: Adnan Morshed; Sthapattachariya Muzharul Islam; Fledging Days of the Sixties (1962-1972); Dreams and Struggles of the Seventies (1973-1982); Soul Searching Eighties (1983-1992); New Waves of Nineties (1993-2002); Spirit of the New Millennium (2003-2012); Project Index; Acknowledgement
Summary: To commemorate the five decades of formal architectural education in the country, the Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) launched a proposal for a publication on 50 years of architectural works in Bangladesh. The book Fifty Years of Architecture in Bangladesh primarily showcases 50 significant works of architecture, created in Bangladesh between 1962 and 2012. It gives an insight into the shaping of a new trend of Bengali modernism through 7 significant works of Muzharul Islam and 50 nationally and internationally recognized projects by BUET alumni and a few expatriate architects. It depicts the trends of architecture that have consistently developed with the passage of time. The editors presented fifty significant architectural projects spanning the first five decades since the inception of institutional architectural education in this country and made a successful attempt of setting the framework against which architectural practice and pedagogy flourished in Bangladesh.
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Includes index.

Foreword;
Story of Architecture in the Then East Pakistan with Reference to the Critical Condition that Prevailed in British India: Shamsul Wares;
Western Architects in East Pakistan: The Changing Notion of ‘White Man’s Burden’: Farhan S. Karim;
Dhaka’s Urban Ecstasy: Adnan Morshed;
Sthapattachariya Muzharul Islam;
Fledging Days of the Sixties (1962-1972);
Dreams and Struggles of the Seventies (1973-1982);
Soul Searching Eighties (1983-1992);
New Waves of Nineties (1993-2002);
Spirit of the New Millennium (2003-2012);
Project Index;
Acknowledgement

To commemorate the five decades of formal architectural education in the country, the Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) launched a proposal for a publication on 50 years of architectural works in Bangladesh. The book Fifty Years of Architecture in Bangladesh primarily showcases 50 significant works of architecture, created in Bangladesh between 1962 and 2012. It gives an insight into the shaping of a new trend of Bengali modernism through 7 significant works of Muzharul Islam and 50 nationally and internationally recognized projects by BUET alumni and a few expatriate architects. It depicts the trends of architecture that have consistently developed with the passage of time. The editors presented fifty significant architectural projects spanning the first five decades since the inception of institutional architectural education in this country and made a successful attempt of setting the framework against which architectural practice and pedagogy flourished in Bangladesh.

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