Global BIM Alliance |
on 11 Apr 2015 by Mohammad Tauheed |
The core concept of Building Information Modeling is all about integration. But fundamentally, is th[...] |
Creating a global universal standard of BIM It is better to treat the present day BIM as a primitive rather than an advanced technology. BIM has indeed a long way to go to become the real integrated platform of design and design-communication. The biggest problem of introducing today's BIM to education and also profession is, the compatibility and dependency issue. It is [read more] |
Dhanmondi Lake and the stories behind... |
on 12 Feb 2011 by Mehbuba Tune Uzra |
“The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As I started walking down the pathway of Dhanmondi Lake, I was no longer an isolated being, I could see, I could hear, I could touch and smell with a sensation of living every second of a phenomenon, a poetry that enveloped me. The trees with its fresh [read more] |
"thoughts: geometry of educating architecture" |
on 06 Sep 2010 by Mehbuba Tune Uzra |
[This article is inspired from a discussion on Architecture Education orgnized by the 'Mongolbarer Shabha' held on July 6th 2010.]Finely cut colorful papers metamorphosizing playful flowers, fruits, cats and rabbits, sketched by some young innocent hands with tiny nibbling fingers, hanging from the ceiling of our very well-known room, where we all gather...“the mongolbarer shobha” [read more] |
Working With Corbusier |
on 06 May 2009 by |
Discourse was being held at TKNRK office then. This article was read in the ‘Essential Reading’ series of Discourse. This one was a very inspiring reading for everyone, helped to know in depth about the working process, intimate life of Le Corbusier. This article is originally written by Jerzy Soltan, worked with Le Corbusier for years. Here it is [read more] |
Hundertwasser: Mould Manifeto against rationalism in architecture |
on 02 Nov 2008 by |
On 4 July 1958 the Viennese painter Hundertwasser (b. 1928) read his Verschimmelungs-Manifest (Mould[...] |
I fought with my teachers in studios in 3rd and 4th year to draw the lines free hand throughout the semesters. I never let my soul slaughtered under the rulers. It’s the ‘intuition’ where ‘art’ lives not the parallel-bar and set-squares. Forms ‘generate’ from ideas and intuitions, they generate from the air. I believe the so called ‘cube’ is [read more] |
Learning from the earth |
The story of Working with Anna Heringer in METTI projects |
on 22 Apr 2008 by Md. Shoeb Al Rahe, Ishraq Zahra Khan |
It was while taking a Rural Architecture course in our fourth year at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University that I first realized that this was the area in our profession that most interested me. We were asked to go back to our own individual villages and study the socio-economics and architecture of the place. I discovered in my [read more] |
METI School | The 'Handmade' School by Anna Heringer & Eike Roswag in critical lens |
on 11 Feb 2008 by |
Architect Anna Heringer came to ‘Discourse’ last year after an invitation from Architect Nurur Rahman Khan, it was held in the Open Studio of the University of Asia Pacific. She gave a lecture on her then recently finished METI School (Handmade School) project in Rudrapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh. She also presented some other projects built with mud and wood. Architect [read more] |
Architect Jalal Ahmed: Biography |
on 21 Jun 2007 by |
After graduating in 1983, Jalal Ahmad established an architectural firm in partnership with two other architects. In 1997 after dissolution of the partnership firm he started his independent practice J. A. Architect. Over the last 23 years he has designed varied projects ranging from small training center made of mud blocks to large academic institutions and from prototype low [read more] |
Jalal Ahmed: Scholastica School |
on 21 Jun 2007 by |
SCHOLASTICA SCHOOL,Dhaka (1997-2000)Designed by: JAA (Architect Jalal Ahmed)The project was for one of the leading English medium school at Dhaka. The school was functioning in several scattered residential houses until last year. The newly constructed building complex at Uttara houses class five to A level classes. Due to limited size (1 acre approximately) of the site and large [read more] |
Ando's Vision towards the Crisis of Modernism |
on 04 Jun 2007 by |
After the core modernism architecture is still in search of some new verses towards a perfect solution as the guiding principles of today’s architecture. The socio-economic and the political situation of the world has been changed entirely than the era of emergence of modernism. At that time modernism was emerging out of the concepts of breaking apart individuality, individual [read more] |
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