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Over three decades, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts 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 varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions.
Meditations in Entropy is the first comprehensive book on the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. It features 16 of the firm's designs in detail through photographs by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet as well as numerous plans, drawings, sketches, and other images. Perceptive essays are contributed by eminent critics and historians, Kenneth Frampton, Robert McCarter, and William J.R. Curtis. A conversation between Chowdhury, Swiss architect Niklaus Graber, and distinguished architectural historian Philip Ursprung, further analyzing URBANA's unique approach, rounds off this volume.
Over three decades, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts 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 varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions.
Meditations in Entropy is the first comprehensive book on the work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. It features 16 of the firm's designs in detail through photographs by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet as well as numerous plans, drawings, sketches, and other images. Perceptive essays are contributed by eminent critics and historians, Kenneth Frampton, Robert McCarter, and William J.R. Curtis. A conversation between Chowdhury, Swiss architect Niklaus Graber, and distinguished architectural historian Philip Ursprung, further analyzing URBANA's unique approach, rounds off this volume.
Kashef Chowdhury
ist Architekt, Architekturvermittler und Fotograf. Er führt in Dhaka das Büro Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA, das seit 1995 ein international viel beachtetes und preisgekröntes
Werk geschaffen hat.
William J.R. Curtis
ist ein international angesehener Historiker, Autor und Kritiker mit
Spezialisierung auf die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Kenneth Frampton
ist Ware Professor of Architecture an der Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation der Columbia University in New York.
Robert McCarter
ist Architect und Autor und lehrt als Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture an der Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts der Washington University in St.
Louis.
Philip Ursprung
lehrt als Professor für Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte am Institut gta der ETH Zürich.
- First-ever monograph on the internationally recognized Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA
- Traces nearly three decades of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA's trajectory in confronting immense challenges such as complex weather conditions and climate change, major migration movements, and high urban density
- Features in detail 16 of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA's designs that demonstrate the firm's unique focus on these pressing issues
- Richly illustrated with images by acclaimed architectural photographer Hélène Binet and numerous plans, drawings, and sketches, most of them previously unpublished
- With contributions by eminent architecture critics and historians
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Architektur |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | 518 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783038603290 |
| ISBN-10: | 3038603295 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 03860329 |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: |
Chowdhury, Kashef
Curtis, William J. R. Frampton, Kenneth McCarter, Robert Ursprung, Philip |
| Fotograph: | Binet, Hélène |
| Redaktion: | Chowdhury, Kashef |
| Herausgeber: | Kashef Chowdhury |
| Illustrator: | Hélène Binet |
| Hersteller: | Park Books |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | GVA Goettingen, Anna-Vandenhoeck-Ring 36, D-37081 Göttingen, info@gva-verlage.de |
| Abbildungen: | 406 farbige und 650 s/w-Abbildungen |
| Maße: | 238 x 285 x 37 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kashef Chowdhury |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.12.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 1,838 kg |
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