A blend of nostalgia and architecture
“91/2 House, Time & Memory” is the title of an architectural exhibition of a house designed in Dhaka (Dhanmondi 11/A) in the 1990s by architect Timmy Aziz for his mother who was moving back to her native city after living abroad for many years. The exhibition will showcase photographs, drawings, models and written stories of each aspect of the house that illustrate the context through material, crafts and local technologies.
The exhibit traces the narrative of how the designer's memories of his childhood home in Nilkhet come together with his conscious effort to respond to the cultural and material demands of Dhaka through his interactions with local architects, craftsmen and vendors.
The exhibition matches the personal narrative of building a house for one's mother with the philosophical experience of situating a building in context. Through locating his own preferences, the architect locates the nuances of architecture in Dhaka, the city of his childhood.
The exhibition opened on March 16 and continues until April 14.
It is jointly organised by Saif Ul Haque, architect, Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscape and Settlements, Bengal Foundation Visual Arts Program and ADD.
Timmy Aziz is an architect who has practised in the US, Europe and Asia. He studied Physics at Trinity College, Oxford University, and Architecture at The Architectural Association, London, and the Cooper Union, New York City, where he received his professional degree. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, at Hampshire College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and also taught as visiting professor at design schools in Xiamen, China in 2008. His work has been published in Domus, ArchTech, Interiors, the Japanese magazine I'm Home Design, and New York, New Faces of AIANY in 2002. He currently teaches at the Department of Architectural Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
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