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On Slowness

ByTod Williams and Billie TsienJanuary 7, 2021

In an earlier edition of 2G devoted to Arne Jacobsen, Knud Aerbo, one of his former associates, spoke of Jacobsen’s office: “What we had when we worked with Arne Jacobsen: A drawing table – a 90 x 160 centimetres uneven table top – a side chair with a straw bottom. Our own T-square and a […]

ByKasia PaprockiJanuary 7, 2021

In a January 19 article[1] about the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh[2], The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof describes a coastal island on the verge of disappearance and farmers forced to ‘marry off’ their underage daughters as a result of losses linked to sea level rise. This dystopic imaginary of Bangladesh in the […]

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Editorial: Art Without Media and Artists

ByMohammad TauheedJanuary 6, 2021

Art is now taking new turns. In the metamorphosis of art, new characters and catalysts are emerging into the play where the individual medium and artists are gradually becoming insignificant than before. Like artificial intelligence in technology, art itself is turning into an independent catalyst of this transformation, and is somewhat working independently off the artists! […]

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Editorial: The Rising Horizon

ByKazi Khaleed AshrafJanuary 6, 2021

In a slow gestating process, Bangladesh’s contemporary architecture has arrived at a global stage in a robust and formidable way. If 1952, and the Art College and Dhaka University Library mark the starting point of a modern architecture culture, it took a while for the new arrival. Since the publication of the two iconic projects […]

ByMasudul Islam ShammoJanuary 5, 2021

Through the lived experiences and ways of representation, cities have been described and imagined in many different ways. Hong Kong, portrayed as a ‘hyperdense metropolis,’ has been a curious case of investigation for many urban thinkers. With a unique natural and manmade arrangement, Hong Kong is a prime global financial center. A city defined by […]

ByKazi Khaleed AshrafJanuary 3, 2021

নতুন ও পুরোনর সংমিশ্রণে বসবাসযোগ‍্য আধুনিক ঢাকার পরিকল্পনা নিয়ে দৈনিক জনকন্ঠে প্রকাশিত কাজী খালিদ আশরাফের লেখা [প্রথম প্রকাশ: দৈনিক জনকন্ঠ ২৬ অক্টোবর ২০১৮] ঢাকা একটি উজ্জ্বল উদ্দীপনার শহর, প্রাণপ্রাচুর্যের জায়গা- তা সত্ত্বেও এমন কিছু ঘাটতি আছে যেগুলো প্রতিনিয়তই ঢাকাকে পৃথিবীর বাসযোগ্য শহরের তালিকায় একেবারে নিচের স্তরে রেখেছে। প্রথমটা হলো দেড় কোটি মানুষের বাসস্থানের জন্য অপ্রতুল […]

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Footprints

ByKerry HillDecember 30, 2020

Kerry Hill kindly shared this write up on his 2016 Utzon Lecture with us. Soon after receiving this article, we learned the sad news of his death on August 26, 2018. ————————————————————————————————————— An Australian but based in Singapore, Kerry Hill designed

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Kabir: An Architect of the Life-world

ByKazi Khaleed AshrafDecember 28, 2020

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf writes on the work process and methodology of Khondaker Hasibul Kabir In the early part of 2007, a young architecture professor from a reputed university in an up-scale area in Dhaka crossed the waters of a putrid lake to a slum on the other shore. There he rented a space to live in the […]

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On Slowness

We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Climate Change

Editorial: Art Without Media and Artists

Editorial: The Rising Horizon

The Curious Case of Hong Kong

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Footprints

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