Beschreibung
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 Bangladeshs southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the worlds densest metropolitan areas: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANAs 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 firms 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 URBANAs unique approach, rounds off this volume.
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Hersteller:
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Postfach 2021
DE 37010 Göttingen
Autorenportrait
Kashef Chowdhury is a Dhaka-based architect, educator, and photographer, and principal of the architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. William J.R. Curtis is a distinguished historian, writer, and critic specializing in twentieth-century architecture. Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, professor of architecture, and author, serving also as the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Philip Ursprung is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at ETH Zürichs Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture.
