Kashef Chowdhury “Meditations in Entropy”
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About this Event
Since 1995, 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. For this lecture Kashef Chowdhury will discuss some projects featured in the first full monograph of the practice: Meditations In Entropy. He will focus on works related to culture, history and climate change in Bangladesh, which 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.
Speaker
Kashef Chowdhury has a studio-based practice based in Dhaka, with strong emphasis on climate, materials and context – both natural and human. Projects in the studio are given extended time for research so as to reach a level of innovation and original expression. Works span various typologies, from institutions and public buildings, to culture, education, sports, health, industry, religious, residential and climate-action projects.
Kashef Chowdhury won first prize in AR+D Architecture Award 2012 from the Architectural Review, London. He received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016, Geneva and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Prize 2021, London.
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