Landscapes

Leplastrier-Stutchbury Master Class 2018 at Panigram, Jessore

BI provided the wonderful opportunity for professionals to learn from renowned architects and thought-leaders, in the form of intense activities, discussions and workshops.

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...

Spring 2017: April – May Session: Complex/ity & Landscape Operations

April-May Session invited architects and thinkers to present their thoughts and works on the making of complexes from both rural and urban situations.

Spring 2017: March Session: How to Read the City and Other Things

The March Session offered a brilliant, diverse lineup of global faculties.

Fall 2016: September Session: Architecture in the Landscape

A month long special program designed to bring out the best thoughts around designing for Bangladeshi landscapes

Spring 2016: May Session: Landscape Forms and Formations

Theories, designs and techniques were presented for working with a hydro-geographic landscape as the Bengal delta. Seminars, design workshops and forums addressed various scales of operation.

Spring 2016: April Session: House, Cluster, Matrix

The theme of “House, Cluster, Matrix” addressed the range of rural and urban housing forms

Spring 2016: February Session: Tropical Topics

The tropical climate is unique in its own diverse way and it has a direct impact on the design of our built environment; thus ‘tropics’ as a topic is in the discussion of design, architecture and situated place making ever since the modernism and beyond.

Fall 2015: November Session: Architecture and the City

The session began with exercises ideas of designing small towns, which continued as an elaborate studio work on designing Mymensingh as an example of a small town.

Fall 2015: October Session: Home and Dwelling

Some prominent architects, from both home and abroad, came to join us in forums to share their works and ideas about Home and Dwelling.

Fall 2015: September Session: Cities and Settlements

This session explored the fundamentals of human settlements, large scale designs and cities. The discussion also brought in topics of how funding organizations and local community get involved in a project like designing new villages from scratch.

Fall 2015: August Session: Landscape

August Session was focused on understanding “Landscape” under a broad spectrum. Landscape is deeply intertwined with dwelling, cities and regional infrastructure.

The Screening of “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” — A Feature-Length Documentary

A documentary “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” was screened on March 17 by No Voice Passport in association with Bengal Institute.

Launch Event of “The Great Padma” — A Book from ORO Editions and Bengal Institute

"The Great Padma" book is edited by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, with a preface by Amitav Ghosh, and was officially launched on 4th February, 2023.

Conversation between Khondaker Hasibul Kabir and Kazi Khaleed Ashraf—BI Between 03

In the third instalment of the BI Between series, Khondaker Hasibul Kabir and Kazi Khaleed Ashraf discuss how architectural and urban strategies can be developed from the "perennial" Bengali landscape.

Conversation Between Kongjian Yu and Kazi Khaleed Ashraf—BI Between 01

In an original and timely conversation, Kongjiyan Yu and Kazi Ashraf discuss the realities of the time as shaped by the pandemic, and how landscapes, cities and architecture can be shaped.

স্থাপত্য একটি ল্যান্ডস্কেপ ঘটনা – কাজী খালিদ আশরাফ | Architecture is a Landscape Event – Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

A public lecture by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf on 2nd September at Chhayanaut, the second one of the series of three lectures with the overall theme of "Presence of Architecture"

Building Landscapes – A Lecture by Dirk van Gameren

Dirk van Gameren speaks about landscape architecture and design at Chhayanaut Auditorium organised by Bengal Institute

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

Naveeda Khan: Overhearing in the Chars

Naveeda Khan shares her experiences and developments while working with people in the river islands of the Jamuna.

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.

Forum: Architecture in the Landscape in Bangladesh

Let It Flood: Rethinking Urbanism in Deltas – A Lecture by Kelly Shannon

A lecture by Kelly Shannon on 2nd June, 2016 at Chhayanaut Auditorium, Dhanmomndi.

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Peter Buchanan

Peter Buchanan at Bengal Architecture Symposiums: Now/Next

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Adèle Naudé Santos

Adele Santos at Bengal Architecture Symposium: NOW/NEXT

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Panel Discussion: Crafting Architecture

Discussion: "Crafting Architecture": Bengal Architecture Symposium: NOW/NEXT

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

Opening remarks by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf at the Bengal Architecture NOW/NEXT Symposium

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Peter Stutchbury

Day 01 Peter Stutchbury at Bengal Architecture Symposium: NOW/NEXT

James Timberlake: “Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water”

A Conversation with Michael Sorkin and James Timberlake: Re-fabricating Cities & Architecture

Discussions about the present and the future of our cities between two maestros of the theories and the practice...

In the Terrain of Rain – Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha

The way we draw and see deltas, rivers, rain, land and gardens, may be completely wrong!

Lowlands/Highlands: Strategies for Landscape Architecture a Lecture by Carey Clouse

Carey Clouse’s lecture presented diverse climate and conditions of landscape design...

BI/GRU Research Logs: Air Pollution in Dhaka and its Surrounding Areas

Analysis of air pollution levels in Dhaka and its surrounding areas

BI/GRU Research Logs: Mapping Historical Earthquakes in and around Bangladesh

Assessment of the history of earthquakes in and around Bangladesh

BI/GRU Research Logs: The Mapping of Tree Canopy of Dhaka City

Tree canopy coverage within the urban context of Dhaka

BI/ GRU Research Logs: Flood in Meghna Basin

Overflow in the Meghna Basin

BI/ GRU Research Logs: Sea Level Rise – Global and Bangladesh Scenario

Sea level rise scenarios around the world

BI/ GRU Research Logs: Mapping Mangroves in Tropical Deltas

Time series mapping of Mangrove coverage in Tropical Deltas using multitemporal satellite imagery and machine learning

BI/ GRU Research Logs: The Importance of Considering Hydrological Basin in Planning

Basin consideration in planning and resource management

BI/ GRU Research Logs: The Meghna Basin

Identification of the Meghna Basin rivers through the latest satellite imagery.

BI / BAU Works: Tribeni Canal and Linear Park, Narayanganj, 2019

To revive and improve the bank of Tribeni Canal, Bengal Institute/BAU Design was entrusted by the Narayanganj City Corporation to propose a design.

BI / BAU Works: Phultola Community Center, Khulna, 2018

Intended to improve the social and economic status of the Dalit community of the Phultola area in Khulna, BI / BAU developed a conceptual plan in 2018. Currently, the project has been revived with the same program but a different location.

Mahmud Nagar Field and Canal Bank Development

Bengal Institute's proposal for creation of recreational park and development of canal at Mahmud Nagar, Narayanganj.

Imagining Bangladesh: A Coastal Scheme

A comprehensive planning idea for future Bangladesh

Kakoli Intersection

Design proposal to solve a critical traffic node

Gulshan Park

Research and design project to create public open space in Dhaka

Environmental Database

Inventory of information as a supporting tool for researchers

Khulna Regional Study

The dynamics of Ganges Delta is the key focus of this study.

Narayanganj Townscape

A comprehensive development plan for Narayanganj

Manikganj Townscape

Manikganj Development Project

Residential Campus for a University

Proposal to bring back the memory of a place

Gulshan Civic Corridor

The initiative is to create active civic spaces across the neighbourhoods | A project with the Dhaka NLTA (Non-Lending Technical Assistance) program of the Sustainable Development Department of The World Bank.

Sylhet Townscape

Design through investigation on Sylhet's unique characteristics

Buriganga Riverbank

An example of appropriate riverside development connecting both banks | A project with the Dhaka NLTA (Non-Lending Technical Assistance) program of the Sustainable Development Department of The World Bank.

Participants’ Works from “Space of Water: A Floating Workshop for the Bengal Delta”

Participants of the workshop created 1:20 models of their idea of what a floating vessel could accommodate in the context of the Bengal Delta.

Design studio by Wakilur Rahman, Salauddin Ahmed, Hasibul Kabir

A comprehensive ‘learning by doing’ landscape design studio started off working outside in the field.

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha Studio

Participants were asked to bring camera and sketching materials for an excursion on the river. Professor Mathur and Cunha instructed them to observe the landscape and activities on both sides of the river Dhaleshwari.

“The Great Padma”—Book from ORO Editions and Bengal Institute

"The Great Padma" is the first comprehensive book on the epic river that flows as the spine of Bangladesh and forms the existential dynamic for the Bengal Delta.

সিলেটের নগর উন্নয়ন

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf spoke at a program on developing Sylhet with Abu Taher Muhammed Shoeb moderated by Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed.

Studio by Salauddin Ahmed and Khondaker Hasibul Kabir

Through combined practices of imagination and handwork, a synchronisation of the human mind with the spirit of nature was sought.

Design Studio – Wakilur Rahman, Salauddin Ahmed and Hasibul Kabir

A comprehensive ‘learning by doing’ landscape design studio started off working outside in the field...