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Adnan Zillur Morshed

THE GRUDGING URBANIST

Bangladesh’s eunomia problem

In the ancient Greek society, eunomia outlined how things should be in an ideal society.
10 January 2025, 02:00 AM

Shamsul Wares: A teacher who inspired generations of architects

Aristotle once said, “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.” Shamsul Wares understood, and hence taught.
21 June 2024, 05:00 AM

A post-Partition heritage campus worth preserving

FCC should not be viewed simply as one of the cadet colleges; it is a heritage campus that can be showcased to the world.
25 May 2024, 02:00 AM

Planning for Dhaka's new night

Dhaka should be readied for a nighttime culture that offers a potpourri of entertainment options to people.
17 May 2024, 01:00 AM

Has Dhaka become a status city?

The status city often serves the privileged, while the huddling masses eke out a minimal existence
26 January 2024, 02:00 AM

Is human civilisation at an inflection point?

Our brains are being reprogrammed to look for the easiest solutions to our most vexing social and political questions.
1 December 2023, 02:00 AM

Is there an architecture for marginal communities?

Our experience of designing Brac regional offices across rural Bangladesh.
2 October 2023, 02:00 AM

How to reclaim flyovers as people-centric ‘green’ infrastructure

Characterised by a culture of ad hocism, these valuable urban lands below elevated road infrastructures rarely reach their full potential.
12 August 2023, 04:00 AM

Bangladesh’s eunomia problem

In the ancient Greek society, eunomia outlined how things should be in an ideal society.
10 January 2025, 02:00 AM

Shamsul Wares: A teacher who inspired generations of architects

Aristotle once said, “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.” Shamsul Wares understood, and hence taught.
21 June 2024, 05:00 AM

A post-Partition heritage campus worth preserving

FCC should not be viewed simply as one of the cadet colleges; it is a heritage campus that can be showcased to the world.
25 May 2024, 02:00 AM

Planning for Dhaka's new night

Dhaka should be readied for a nighttime culture that offers a potpourri of entertainment options to people.
17 May 2024, 01:00 AM

Has Dhaka become a status city?

The status city often serves the privileged, while the huddling masses eke out a minimal existence
26 January 2024, 02:00 AM

Is human civilisation at an inflection point?

Our brains are being reprogrammed to look for the easiest solutions to our most vexing social and political questions.
1 December 2023, 02:00 AM

Is there an architecture for marginal communities?

Our experience of designing Brac regional offices across rural Bangladesh.
2 October 2023, 02:00 AM

How to reclaim flyovers as people-centric ‘green’ infrastructure

Characterised by a culture of ad hocism, these valuable urban lands below elevated road infrastructures rarely reach their full potential.
12 August 2023, 04:00 AM

Forging a Bengali identity through modernist architecture

After completing his Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Oregon, Eugene, in June 1952, the 29-year-old Muzharul Islam (1923-2012) returned home to find a postcolonial Pakistan embroiled in acrimonious politics of national identity.
5 August 2023, 01:00 AM

The Louis Kahn mystique: 20 years after ‘My Architect’

The legend of Louis Kahn remains strong.
6 July 2023, 15:00 PM

How we should design the next generation of parks

Do we need the 24/7 hustle and bustle of Dhaka – the cacophonous dramas of this sleepless city – reproduced in its parks too?
15 June 2023, 17:00 PM

Heatwaves, global warming, and the ethics of our cities

We must rethink how cities are planned, designed, and administered to combat the adverse effects of both the heat island problem and climate change.
26 May 2023, 03:00 AM

What makes great research?

Research cannot flourish in an environment where critical enquiry is severely discouraged.
31 March 2023, 16:00 PM

What makes a classroom great?

A great classroom is one that is conducive to learning.
17 March 2023, 17:30 PM

Deciphering the student-learner

What makes a good student? A definitive answer to this question is difficult.
11 March 2023, 03:00 AM

What makes a good teacher in the 21st century?

Today, the question of being a 'good teacher' generates a new vernacular.
3 March 2023, 16:30 PM

A dangerous time for history

Governments are trying to control what could or could not be taught about their past.
10 February 2023, 02:00 AM

Can the Metro Rail be a Great Equalizer?

A “new” type of urban mobility comes to fruition in the month of the country’s emancipation
30 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Footpaths of Bangladesh: Our complicated relationship with walking

Walking, sadly, is not part of our shared value system, and there are many reasons behind this.
16 December 2022, 16:00 PM

Researching Rural Transformation 2.0 in Bangladesh

We need new research methodologies to understand the complex nature of the rural change in Bangladesh in the last two decades.
10 November 2022, 14:00 PM

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