Building Is Crafting – A Special Workshop – September 2019

Building Is Crafting was a remarkable workshop on making and thinking conducted by a group of master designers and artisans.

Space is Society – October 2018 Session

A two week long academic session on how we think about space, its relationships with society.

“Building Is Crafting” May 2018 Session

An academic session focusing on crafts and making; involving masters of crafts and craftsmen. With a mix of hands-on workshops, and a few lecture on the first two weeks of May, 2018.

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...

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.

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: August Session: Landscape

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

Midnight’s Third Child

Bengal Institute at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019

Forum: Architecture in the Landscape in Bangladesh

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

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

Participant Works from “Building Is Crafting” May 2018 Session

Participants of the workshop various works with numerous materials guided by experienced Artisans and instructors of craft and product design.

Bengal Institute Welcomes Salauddin Ahmed as the Director of Curatorial and Design Program

Mind Over Matter: An Architectural Exhibition by Salauddin Ahmed

Tracing the Roots of Memory of Dhaka

During a Bengal Institute Academic session "Space is Society", Salauddin Ahmed and Najmun Nahar talked about relating the past with the present to build for the city while finding inspiration from the architecture of Dhaka to connect the dots of history.

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...