Meditations in Entropy. The Work of Kashef Chowdhury/ URBANA in Bangladesh. 5 73

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using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound

128pp with b&w and colour photography throughout

The bookplate design of a silver 7-pointed star borrows the insignia of A∴A∴

but be built of philosophy and empathy for our increasingly fragile and shared ecological and human condition

Meditations in Entropy. The Work of Kashef Chowdhury/ URBANA in Bangladesh. 5 73The changing climate is no longer debatable here, it is this lands unfeigned, monstrous reality, says Dhaka based architect Kashef Chowdhury. His firm URBANA, established in 1995, has produced an astonishingly diverse collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts and located in one of the meteorologically most complex and challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter