History

March 2018: Histories and Theories

The session in March 2018 on "Histories and Theories." was a two-weeks long academic session set to shed light on the History and Cultural background on the art and architecture of the subcontinent.

Fall 2017: September – November Session: Scale Is Everything: LARGE/MEDIUM/HUMAN

A seven week long special session brought renowned architects, landscape architects and academics for a fantastic series of design workshops, seminars and other special events.

Fall 2017: August Session: Scale is Everything ‘LARGE’

From house compounds to neighbourhoods, and from villages to rice-fields and regions with rivers and rivulets, we organize our surroundings in shifting scales and scopes...

Midnight’s Third Child

Trans-imperial Transfers in the Development of Colonial Modern India and Australia – A Lecture by Peter Scriver

Public Lecture by Tapati Guha-Thakurta at KIB on Art and Religion

Contesting Careers: The “Artistic” and the “Religious” in Contemporary India - A Lecture by Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Bengal Architecture Symposium 3: In the Spirit of the Land – Anjalendran & Burgess

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND Two Talks and a Conversation GREGORY BURGESS and C ANJALENDRAN

Andreas Ruby: Architecture and Identity: Strategies of Transformation

Andreas Ruby charmed his audience with his take on the poetic transformations possible through architecture.

The Talk by Balkrishna Doshi at Bengal Architecture Symposium 02

The scope of architecture now encompasses more than just creating buildings. In its extended sense, architecture now involves the design of towns and cities, the rearrangement of landscapes, and the provision of well-being of communities.

Empathic Imagination: A talk by Juhani Pallasmaa at Bengal Architecture Symposium 02

With an introduction by Marina Tabassum, Juhani Pallasmaa's talk transcends the boundaries of how we typically understand architecture to a phenomenological experience.

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Peter Buchanan

Peter Buchanan at Bengal Architecture Symposiums: Now/Next

BI/GRU: In Search of Rajnagar: Part 1

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf’s Talk at a “Teacher-to-Teacher Workshop”

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf spoke at a "Teacher-to-Teacher Workshop"

The Regional Politics of East Pakistan and Architecture by Doxiadis

Farhan Karim uses Constantinos Doxiadis’s work as examples to show how the birth of nationalism is connected to other parameters. He provides historical background to the architect's work, details his works, and its influence during and after he was working in the subcontinent. He also provided context to the scene in which Doxiadis was working, his companions and intentions of the controversial architect.

The Mughal Miniaturist of Jorasanko

Farhat Afzal writes about Abanindranath Tagore based on the lectures by Sonia Amin, February 2017.

Early European Settlers of Dhaka

Dhrubo Alam writes about the early European immigrants who settled in Dhaka.

Reading Relics

Muntakim Haque writes on the significance of ancient ruins based on the lectures at Bengal Institute by Nisar Hossain, Shahnaj Husne Jahan and Michael Meister