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Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.
Book cover of Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism. Published by ORO Editions.

Shamsul Wares

An Architecture of Elemental Modernism

By (author) Adnan Zillur Morshed

£45.00

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  • First monograph on Bangladesh’s acclaimed architect and educator, Shamsul Wares
  • A pioneering book that demonstrates architecture as a reflection of the socio-cultural conditions of a country, as well as global modernity
  • A profusely illustrated book, written by diverse contributors with a common ethos of clarity, contextuality, and analysis 
Full Description

This pioneering monograph on Shamsul Wares, Bangladesh’s acclaimed architect and educator, demonstrates architecture as a reflection of the socio-cultural conditions of a country, as well as global modernity. Shamsul Wares is widely known in Bangladesh to be a fiercely passionate teacher who professes architecture as a philosophy of modernism, one that views the challenges of space-making through the lens of twentieth-century modernist experiments through abstraction, platonic clarity, and humanism.

Edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed with contributions from a diverse range of authors, this profusely illustrated book explains a cerebral architect’s design work with careful analysis and contextuality. 

About the Author

Adnan Zillur Morshed is an architect, architectural historian and critic, urban theorist, and professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. and Master’s in architecture from MIT and BArch from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, where he taught before coming to the USA. Adnan Morshed was featured in the acclaimed documentary, Louis Kahn’s Tiger City (2019), and was a TEDx speaker at George Washington University, Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He served as the principal architect of the team that designed eight regional offices for BRAC (the world’s largest NGO) across rural Bangladesh.

Specifications
Publisher
ORO Editions
ISBN
9781966515142
Published
17th Jun 2026
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding USA, Canada, Australasia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan
Size
290 mm x 245 mm
Pages
328 Pages
Illustrations
300 color
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