Title & Author:

Rafiq Azam : architecture for green living / edited by Rosa Maria Falvo ; foreword by Kerry Hill ; essays by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf and Philip Goad ; interview by Syed Manzoorul Islam.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Milano, Italy : Skira Editore, 2013.

Description:

323 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
In the shadow of Kahn / Kerry Hill -- Tropical bricolage: the architectural artistry of Rafiq Azam / Kazi Khaleed Ashraf -- A new third world modernism: critical design strategies in the architecture of Rafiq Azam / Philip Goad -- Projects 1986-2015 (Azam residence, Lalbagh, Dhaka (1986-1988) ; Khazedewan apartments, Dhaka (2001-2002) ; Gulfeshan apartments, Gulshan, Dhaka (2000-2003) ; Mizan residence, Gulshan, Dhaka (2000-2003) -- Meghna residence, Dhanmondi, Dhaka (2003-2005) ; South water garden, Baridhara, Dhaka (2004-2007) ; SA residence, Gulshan, Dhaka (2005-2011) ; SA family graveyard, Botkhil, Noakhali (2011-2012) ; Mamun residence, Khulshi, Chittagong (2007-2013) ; South 50/53 apartments, Gulshan, Dhaka (2010-2013) ; S P Setia headquarters, Setia Alam, Malaysia (2012-2014) ; Ashraf Kaiser residence, Savar, Dhaka (2012-2014) ; Rokia Afzal vacation house, Mouchak, Gazipur (2013- ongoing) ; Bhuiyan Bari, Khilkhet, Dhaka (2013-2016) ; Extension of Islamiya Eye Hospital, Dhaka (2007 -- unbuilt) ; Bangladesh Chancery complex, Islamabad, Pakistan (2008-2015) -- Futuring the past / Rafiq Azam in conversation with Syed Manzoorul Islam.

Summary:

The first ever monograph on contemporary architectural practice in Bangladesh, dedicated to international-award-winning architect Mohammad Rafiq Azam. Rafiq Azam is a world-renowned architect. He recently received the Residential Building of the Year Award at the 2012 Emirates Glass LEAF Awards, which took place during the 2012 London Design Festival. He has a holistic approach to design, which not only incorporates the elements of nature but also harnesses its beauty and potential in a practical way in order to enhance the personal experience of a building. From his uniquely Bangladeshi perspective, the human form has two parts-the body as shell and thoughts as soul-and his architecture is similar, where the building manifests as the shell and nature as its soul. Considering the socioeconomic and city-planning conditions of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, Azam's architectural vocabulary is kept simple and essential, with traditional spaces like the courtyard, pond, and ghat (steps leading into water) and ample internal and external greenery that merge both urban and rural typologies in an intensely urban context. He arranges water courts as swimming ponds in the middle of homes, natural light rooms, and unfolding wall systems to emphasize the interrelationship between form and space.

ISBN:

9788857217802
8857217809

Subject:

Azam, Rafiq.
Azam, Rafiq, 1963-
Architecture Bangladesh History.
Sustainable architecture Bangladesh Designs and plans.
Architecture Bangladesh Histoire.
Architecture durable Bangladesh Dessins et plans.
Architecture History Bangladesh 20th century.
Architecture History Bangladesh 21st century.
Architecture.
Sustainable architecture.
Architektur
Bangladesh.

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Architectural drawings.
History.

Added entries:

Falvo, Rosa Maria.
Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed.
Goad, Philip.
Isalāma, Saiẏada Manajurula.

Architecture for green living

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286675
Call No.: BIB 227101
Status: Available