With the aim of optimising space in eco-friendly manner to have a meaningful life, the three day long architecture symposium ended yesterday.
The Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscape, and Settlements in association with Bengal Foundation organised the three-day symposium on "Architecture Now/ Next" at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh.
The symposium aimed at understanding new directions in architecture and city building along with the kind of work that should be recognised as exemplary.
The invited speakers and moderators included globally acclaimed professionals, academics, writers, critics and thinkers.
During the last day, Peter Stutchbury from Australia, Peter Buchanan from the UK, Prof Adele Santos, from the US, architect Suha Ozkan from Turkey and Prof Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Professor of Architecture of University of Hawaii spoke on different architectural aspects at different sessions.
Last year, Bengal Foundation organized a similar conference of renowned architects from home and abroad titled "Engage Dhaka", and it was dedicated to Muzharul Islam, considered the father of modern architecture in Bangladesh.
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