Foyez Ullah
Living in Dhaka
9781964490014
432 pages
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Llc
Overview
Mohammad Foyez Ullah of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the founder of the award-winning architectural firm Volumezero, is a man who is at the pinnacle of the architectural profession in his own country. His architecture is recognizable for its pure, austere qualities and notable for its dignity and restraint. Volumezero is the largest architectural firm in Dhaka and continues the tradition of brick and concrete modernism brought to the country by Louis Kahn in the design of apartment buildings and residential compounds whose scale, intricacy, and fluidity respond to the realities of the city's climate and culture. With great skill, they are able to translate the demands of the local environment into moments of beautifully articulated order in a chaotic urban environment of over twenty million people. Living in Dhaka explores how Foyez Ullah and his firm interact with the iconic city to produce stunning works of architecture.
Author Bio
Claudio Manzoni was born in Argentina. Between 1965 and 1974 he attended school in Eldorado, Misiones, where he took his first steps in photography. In 1975 he moved to the City of Córdoba where he completed his schooling and went to university, receiving his architectural degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in 1985. Between 1985 and 1990 he worked as an architect in the city of Ushuaia. This period also saw him develop a practice as a landscape photographer. After 1990 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he spent six years working as an illustrator and architectural photographer. He returned to Argentina in 1997, settling in Buenos Aires, where he still practices today as an architect and architecture photographer, working with some of the most important studios in the country. His photographs are regularly published in newspapers and specialized magazines and books. Over the past ten years, landscape photography has played an important role in his portfolio, helping him to explore the Argentine landscape, especially the northern Andes and the southern regions. His work has been exhibited in several different collective and individual shows. As an architectural photographer, he produces photographic reports for architecture offices in various countries, including Asia and North America for editorial purposes, helping to promote the work of the architects involved.Aaron Betsky is a critic living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was Director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. Mr. Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects. He writes a once-weekly blog for architectmagazine.com, Beyond Buildings. Trained as an architect and in the humanities at Yale University, Mr. Betsky has served as the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum (2006-2014) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2001-2006), as well as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995-2001). In 2008, he also directed the 11th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. His latest books are Fifty Lessons from Frank Lloyd Wright (2021), Making It Modern (2019), Architecture Matters (2019) and Anarchitecture: The Monster Leviathan.
