DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide

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DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide

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  • Title: DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide
  • Author: Adnan Morshed and Nesfun Nahar
  • Publisher: Altrim Publishers
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-84-942342-2-4

About the Book

This Guidebook focuses on 25 building representing different architectural phases since the Mughal era, starting in the early 17th century, to the contemporary Bait ur Roulf Mosque, a 2016 Aga Khan Award for architecture. The aim is the narrate the stories of the city through the buildings that played transformative roles in its architectural formation.

The feature buildings communicate larger ideas of the city’s building tradition, represent an architectural trend, influence the architectural scene, and offer a spatial story on the evolution of the city.

As a traveller’s resource, this guidebook combines nuanced architectural and urban histories of these buildings along with maps, drawings, and pictures. It also includes practical information, such as Dhaka’s climate; languages; travel, hotel and restaurant options; currency; and markets and shops among other helpful details.

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DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide

About the Authors

Adnan Morshed is an architect, architectural historian, and urbanist. He received his Doctorate and Master’s in Architecture from MIT, and Bachelor’s from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, where he also taught. Currently, he teaches at the School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. He is the author of several books on architecture, and also frequently contributes opeds to various newspapers and online forums. He instructed courses in the Fundamentals of Structures and The History and Theory of Architecture and Architectural Design.

 

Nesfun Nahar is an architect and urbanist. She began her Doctorate degree research on Architectural Modernism at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), in Dhaka, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture.
Nahar earned a Master’s degree in Housing and Urbanism from the Architectural Association, in London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BUET. She has been a lecturer at BRAC University’s Department of Architecture, also in Dhaka, for 11 years. Nahar took part in various seminars, conferences, and workshops and was a jury member for various student charettes.

DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide

DAC-Dhaka Architectural Travel Guide

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