The House That Kahn Built: The National Assembly Building in Dhaka by Louis Kahn

Kashef Chowdhury's fascination for Kahn’s parliamentary building in Dhaka inspired this volume of photo essays. Kahn’s design is characterized by an innovative architectural language that combines western and eastern traditions, forms and materials.

Working from his Urbana practice in Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury designs architecture that is rooted in the history and nature of its location – whereby the latter also relates to a spiritual and cultural level. This explains his fascination for ...