Past Program

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.

Sun 23 Apr - Thu 25 May' 17

Architecture Landscapes Settlements

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

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

Sun 12 Mar - Wed 5 Apr' 17

Environment Geography and Maps Landscapes Settlements Urbanism

Spring 2017: February Session: The Fabric of Culture

February Session was a month-long session that explored how culture is interwoven with our society in every aspect of our lives. As always, we had a fantastic line-up of faculties, both from home and abroad.

Sun 5 Feb - Tue 28 Feb' 17

Art Culture

Fall 2016: October - November Session: A for Architecture, C for City

The upcoming academic session at Bengal Institute is 'unmissable,' as Peter Buchanan, Balkrishna Doshi, Juhani Pallasmaa and several other important faculties are joining us at the classroom, design-studio and public events.

Sun 16 Oct - Thu 17 Nov' 16

Architecture Urbanism

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

Mon 19 Sep - Thu 6 Oct' 16

Architecture Landscapes

Fall 2016: August Sesssion: "Theory?"

August Session: “Theory?” was organized as a special seminar on “Theories of Architecture and Urbanism”.

Sun 21 Aug - Wed 31 Aug' 16

Architecture Theory

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.

Sun 8 May - Thu 2 Jun' 16

Environment Landscapes Urbanism

Spring 2016: April Session: House, Cluster, Matrix

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

Sun 3 Apr - Thu 28 Apr' 16

Architecture Culture Landscapes Philosophy Settlements Urbanism

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.

Sun 6 Mar - Wed 30 Mar' 16

Architecture Geography and Maps Settlements Urbanism

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.

Sat 30 Jan - Thu 25 Feb' 16

Culture Environment Geography and Maps Landscapes Urbanism

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.

Sat 31 Oct - Tue 24 Nov' 15

Architecture Geography and Maps Landscapes Theory

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.

Sat 3 Oct - Wed 28 Oct' 15