Settlements

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.

Spring 2016: April Session: House, Cluster, Matrix

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

Spring 2016: March Session: Place/Form

The month of March was very special to us. Along with our academic programs we organised a three-day long international symposium “Architecture Now/Next,” the first of its kind event in Bangladesh. Renowned local and international speakers and panelists.

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.

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.

The Buoyant Foundation Project: An Innovative Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and Flood Risk Reduction for Low-Income Communities

Naveeda Khan: Overhearing in the Chars

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

Neelkanth Chhaya – Responsiveness in Architecture – Public Lecture 23

Neelkanth Chhaya talks about the responsive approach to architecture and design and the importance of evolving and adapting the practice according to both the time and location.

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.

Peter Buchanan: Reflection on Human Settlements and Water

According to Peter Buchanan, one must think about housing typology of small towns.

Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu: The Obsessions in the Works

Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu are Founding Partners of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an inter-disciplinary international architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London.

Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Suha Özkan

Suha Özkan at Bengal Architecture Symposium: NOW/NEXT

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 – Byoung Soo Cho

Byoung Soo Cho at Bengal Architecture Symposium: NOW/NEXT

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

Assessment of the history of earthquakes in and around Bangladesh

Imagining Bangladesh: A Coastal Scheme

A comprehensive planning idea for future Bangladesh

Reside Mumbai, Seaside Mumbai

Hypothetical Scheme for a Seaside Housing in Mumbai, India

Narayanganj Townscape

A comprehensive development plan for Narayanganj

Dhaka Nexus

An active and coordinated planning net for the greater neighborhoods

Participant Works from Nilphamary Workshop 2020

Niklaus Graber and Saif Ul Haque led a workshop in Nilphamari on urban transformation, where participants imagined and visualised how Nilphamari could continue to grow and remain a livable city.

Designing Small Towns: Kazi Khaleed Ashraf-Ehsan Khan-Michael Sorkin Studio

Focusing on designing small towns, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf and Ehsan Khan explored new possibilities for Mymensingh town with the participants.

Housing is the Fabric of the City

From the Ashraf Archives: In March 1999, The Daily Star published a writeup on housing challenges in Dhaka and the strategies behind successful housing complexes, written by Kazi Ashraf.

Kabir: An Architect of the Life-world

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf writes on the work process and methodology of Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, the article is to be published in the upcoming issue of Vas.

Bengal Institute at the “10 Actions for Urban-Rural Bengal” organised by ETH Global

A workshop organised by ETH Global on 30th May to shared research works on the Bengal region.

The Future of Housing in Bangladesh

An article by Bengal Institute on The Daily Star 19th February 2019