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“Important essays on contemporary architecture in the Indian subcontinent, and contemporary takes on topics that are ancient and premodern.”
The Mother Tongue of Architecture
SELECTED WRITINGS OF KAZI KHALEED ASHRAF
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‘The Mother Tongue of Architecture’ – A collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture….
ISBN: 978-1-957183-59-6
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 488pp
Publication Date: SPRING 2024
Size: 6.75″ x 9″ Portrait
World Rights: Available
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‘The Mother Tongue of Architecture’ – A collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture. Range of topics is diverse: an architectural phenomenology of water, relationship of architecture and landscape rethought, ancient Greece to India, the Buddha’s house to the modern house in India, the architecture and landscapes of Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier in India, the architecture of Balkrishna Doshi, and other original topics such as the destruction of buildings as a ritual necessity.
Authors
Kazi Ashraf is an architect, architectural historian and critic. Trained at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Hawaii in the US, and now directs the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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ISBN: 978-1-957183-59-6
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 488pp
Publication Date: Spring 2024
Size: 6.75″ x 9″ Portrait
World Rights: Available
