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Marina Tabassum : Architecture, My Journey by Marina Tabassum (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArchitangle Gmbh

ISBN-103966800128

ISBN-139783966800129

eBay Product ID (ePID)6057278859

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMarina Tabassum : Architecture, My Journey

SubjectIndividual Architects & Firms / General, General

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

AuthorMarina Tabassum

Subject AreaArchitecture

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight63.7 Oz

Item Length12.2 in

Item Width9.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal720.92

SynopsisMARINA TABASSUM Architecture: My Journey is the first book devoted to the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her multifaceted architectural oeuvre. Marina Tabassum's exploratory approach makes her architectural practice one of the outstanding contemporary positions internationally. Her diverse oeuvre spans from governmental projects to housing and has brought her numerous honors and accolades in the international field of architecture. This volume presents various public and private building projects that Marina Tabassum has worked on since 1995, first with the architectural office URBANA and since 2005 through Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). The selection of her architecture in this book ranges from early projects in the city of Dhaka shortly after completing her studies at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), such as the Museum of Independence and the celebrated Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, to recent mobile modular structures called Khudi Bari. Tabassum is establishing the latter for the people affected by displacement in various geographically and climatically challenged locations-both in the Ganges Delta and in the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox's Bazar on the border to Myanmar, which is currently the largest refugee camp in the world. The internationally renowned authors reflect on various perspectives and interpretations of Tabassum's work. Besides the historical and political background, the contributions deal, among other things, with spotlighting particular architectural elements that pervade Tabassum's work, such as place and memory, light and spirituality, brick and materiality, and people and community. With contributions by Sean Anderson, Vera Simone Bader, Kareem Ibrahim, Hanif Kara, Andres Lepik, Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Tanzil Shafique, Cristina Steingraber, Marina Tabassum, Sarah M. Whiting, and Danny Wicaksono., With her first monograph, Marina Tabassum intends to inspire people by spotlighting special architectural elements which pervade her work, such as Light and Spirituality, Brick and Materiality, Place and Memory, and People and Community. These elements will be examined by architects and scholars who have impacted her work- with whom Marina Tabassum had the opportunity to interact and share her works. The book will take a look at Tabassum's architectural journey from its early beginnings to future projects and ongoing research. As an architect listed in 2020 by Prospect magazine as the third-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, her perhaps most well-known feat is the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, which won the Aga Khan Award for architecture in 2016. Her holistic involvement in this project, which she undertook on request of her grandmother but completed alone with self-sourced private funding, reveals her dedication to impactful architecture. Readers can look forward to the presentation of a wide variety of projects including early URBANA projects, such as the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence, the more recent and steadily ongoing research on the $2000 Home and the movable house, and Khudi Bari, modular mobile houses for victims vulnerable to climate change and Rohingya refugees. All projects are represented in text and photographs, from residential to museum architecture, with a focus on sustainability, sensitivity to both history, and the demands of modernity, atmosphere, and materiality. Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum is the founder and principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). She founded and heads FACE, the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity, in Bangladesh. Tabassum has been honored with multiple awards such as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Jameel Prize, and the 2021 Soane Medal for architecture from the Sir John Soane Museum.

LC Classification NumberNA1510.8.B33