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What can a building reveal about a nation?Join Nubras Samayeen, assistant professor of architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, for a lecture exploring Louis I. Kahn’s National Assembly Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Louis I. Kahn asserted that in Bangladesh one must think of "an architecture of the land"—shaping earth and water to create the very conditions for architecture. This lecture will examine how Kahn’s design for the National Assembly Building Complex in Dhaka expresses Bangladesh’s multilayered national identity from its postcolonial period (1947) to independence (1971).
By exploring Kahn's manipulation of landforms, water bodies, and spatial relationships, the talk will illustrate how the landscape emerges as a powerful medium through which political aspirations, cultural identity, and the vision of a new nation are articulated, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architectural works and demonstrating that its landscape is integral rather than peripheral to its meaning.
Wednesday Series: Art in Context lectures are free and open to the public. Learn more: https://kimbellart.org/event/wednesday-series-art-context-31
Image: Louis I. Kahn, National Assembly Complex (Sher-e-Bangla Negar), Dhaka, Bangladesh, built 1962–82. Image courtesy of The Architectural Review
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Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd,Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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