Resilient Landscape brings together fifteen architectural projects by Marina Tabassum that confront Bangladesh's most pressing realities — natural disaster, displacement, poverty, and the pressures of rapid urbanisation.
About This Book
Bangladesh is one of the most architecturally challenging contexts on earth, and Marina Tabassum has spent her career building within it with precision and humanity. This monograph gathers fifteen projects that demonstrate how architecture can respond to social and environmental crises without sacrificing material or spatial rigour. Rather than treating adversity as backdrop, Tabassum's work makes it the generative condition of design. The book extends beyond the projects themselves, including a dialogue between Tabassum and Shigeru Ban — two architects who share a commitment to socially engaged practice — alongside an essay by Momoyo Kaijima that situates Tabassum's work within a broader contemporary conversation.
Key Features
- 176 pages of project documentation and critical texts on socially engaged architecture
- Dialogue between Marina Tabassum and Shigeru Ban; essay by Momoyo Kaijima
- Fifteen architectural projects responding to conditions including natural disaster, displacement, and urbanisation in Bangladesh
- Published by Toto
What You'll Discover
- How Tabassum's architecture responds to socio-economic disparity and environmental vulnerability as active design parameters rather than constraints
- A conversation between Tabassum and Shigeru Ban that maps shared and divergent approaches to architecture as a social practice
- Momoyo Kaijima's critical perspective on Tabassum's position within a generation of architects redefining what humanitarian design can mean
- Fifteen projects that together articulate a coherent architectural philosophy built from one of the world's most demanding contexts
About the Author
Marina Tabassum is a Bangladeshi architect of international standing whose practice engages directly with the social, environmental, and economic conditions of Bangladesh. Her work spans projects addressing natural disaster resilience, refugee communities, and rapid urban growth, earning recognition across the global architecture community.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 250 × 182 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784887064201
- Publisher: Toto
- Publication Date: 2026
Perfect For: Architects and students with an interest in socially engaged and humanitarian design, researchers working on South and Southeast Asian architecture, and readers drawn to practice that engages directly with environmental and political urgency.