Arch Bangla News Archive 2001–2006 You Need to know

Publish of “JOURNEY TO THE EAST”:

Arch Bangla News Archive 2001–2006 You Need to know. On August 15, 2001 “Futuristic Novel” JOURNEY TO THE EAST ISBN 1-55212-755-9 was published from Trafford Publishers, Canada. Details may be seen in website http://www.trafford.com/robots/01-0155.html According to Trafford’s Press Release, (the authors) Mary Ann is a pathologist and freelance writer living in Newfoundland. Her brother BiJon Sarma is an author, architect and freelance writer living in Bangladesh. They were able to combine their writing via e-mail over two years to become co-authors of JOURNEY TO THE EAST”.

The story in short is “JOURNEY TO THE EAST” takes place in about the 29th century. The family unit has completely disappeared. Women have been transformed into nothing but a commodity. They are used for child-bearing purposes by some males for exotic hobbies or very unusual old fashioned life styles in this new society.The main characters in JOURNEY TO THE EAST are Gloria and Thomas – young lovers who long to lead an old-fashioned life, long to be joined together in the now-extinct institution of marriage. They want to have a nineteenth-century family unit.

In quest of that they explored all possible venues in the western world. Frustrated by failure, they had no choice except exploring the possibility in the east. To achieve that, they are ready and on the way to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown, uncertain life in the far east. India is the only place with the possibility of some remote pockets left where marriage and family unit might have still survived in the society”.
About their Novel Mary Ann says “Our novel looks at the evolution from our present day state of human rights, women’s liberation and religion and wealth to this futuristic altered human society.

Gloria and Thomas will walk you through history, however this is not a history book.” Some western readers have already questions, how could a book that went completely against the life-style and spirit of the western society be published from a western country. Others, like Brent Maxwell (author of “The Castle” and “A Dangerous Garden”) however opined, “(The) mention of the pursuit of money at all costs being a serious defect of Western society is very true. Sadly, it is also a defect in most of the world’s other societies as well”.

Mary Ann’s recent opinion was, “Immediately after it came out I was having problems, since they thought we were all wrong. After the 11 September incident, however, they realized, there is something very very wrong in this society, and that may even initiate a JOURNEY TO THE EAST” To the best of my knowledge JOURNEY TO THE EAST is the first novel, where two authors from distant land could combine their writing via e-mail to become co-authors.
Journey To The East
by MaryAnn and Bijon Sarma
266 pages; perfect bound; $26.95 CDN ($18.95 US)
published by Trafford Publishing
ISBN 1-55212-755-9

80th Birth Day of Ar. Mazharul Islam

IAB arranged a reception ceremony for eldest and first architect of Bangladesh Ar. Mazharul Islam on his 80th birth day on 25th December,2003. The ceremony was held at “Bakul Chattar” of Fine Arts Institute, Dhaka.

KU Alumni Association: News Archive

Around 50 Architects passed from Khulna University made a get-together at CIRDI Complex, Gazipur on 26th March, 2003. In that program formation of an Alumni association was discussed. Primarily a name was proposed for the organization which is AAKA (Alumni Association of Khulna University Architects).

11 students of KU & BUET died in Kotka Beach:

In the history of students of Bangladesh this is the most tragic phenomena. On 13th March,2004 11 students, 9 from Architecture Discipline of Khulna University and 2 from Mechanical Department, BUET drowned in Katka Beach in Sunderban. They had gone there for a picnic. Students from Khulna are Arnaz Rifat Rupa, Kazi Abdul Muyeed Md. Walid, Md. Kawser Ahmed Khan, Maksudur Aziz Mostazi, Mahmudur Rahman, Abdullah-Hel-Baqi, Md. Towhidul Enam Opu, Md. Ashrafuzzaman Toha and Md. Munadin Raihan bin Mahbub. The students from BUET are Shamsul Arefin and Samiul.  

No words can console for this tragedy. ARCHBANGLA also mourns for this tragic death. Archbangla hosted a black screen removing whole content for 15 days to share this sorrow. IAB also arrange a milad mahfil for the salvation of their departed souls. AAKA(Alumni Association of Khulna University Architects) also organized a milad and doa mahfil for the departed souls.

Collapse of 9-storied building at Savar:

Midnight of 14th April, 2005 was the nightmare for the workers of Spectra Garments of Savar. Within a minute north-eastern part of the 9-storied factory building settle down around 11 ft and as a result the whole building collapse. A measurable phenomena was happened in the history building in Bangladesh. A recently constructed building became a rubble. More than 85 people (according to gov. media) died in this tragedy. It was taken 7 days to rescue and remove the crashed building by applying highest resource of Bangladesh army and fire brigade. Basically it is a signal for us to always abide by the building by-laws. It was also a signal to rich ourselves with disaster management.

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Building Construction (Amendment) Bill 2006 has been passed

Building construction (Amendment) Bill 2006 has been passed on Sunday, 26th February, 2006. In this act punishment for illegal construction has been added. If any building owner violate the passed drawing or extend any part of building without permission from RajUK, he/they will be sentenced to jail for 7(seven) years and fined by 50,000/-

KU Alumni Picnic

AAKA (Alumni Association of Khulna University Architects) arranged a picnic on 17th Feb, 2006. The venue was CERDI Complex, Gazipur. KU architects enjoyed a lot whole day. Many game items like race, hadu-du, musical pillow pass, football was enjoyed by the participants. The group was also make a tour to National Park.

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Exhibition on Louis I. Kahn: News Archive

An Exhibition on works of master architect Louis I. Kahn will be going on from 18th August to 9th September at National Museum Gallery, Shahbagh, Dhaka. The exhibition time will be 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM except Friday.

Architect at the peak of the the world:

Architect Sirajul Haq (Sagor) of Concord Group start his mission to reach at the peak of Everest. He is one of the member of Bangladesh Everest Team as well as first Bangladeshi architect who is going to climb The Everest

Design Competition on “Bangla Academy Bhaban”:

This design competition is valid only for Full Members of IAB. Interested members are requested to collect relevant data from Bangla Academy office during office hour. Jury will be held with collaboration of IAB.

KAD-Unofficial web site for Khulna University Architecture Discipline: News Archive

A new website has been launched named www.ku-architecture.info which is basically a database for past and present students of Architecture Discipline of Khulna University. In a short this is called KAD (Khulna University Architecture Discipline)

IAB 15th Executive Committee: News Archive

15th Executive Committee of IAB formally announced:
President:                     Ar. Mubasshar Hussain
Vice-President:              Ar. Nahas Ahmed Khalil
General Secretary:         Ar. Md. Sanaul Haque
Joint Secretary:             Ar.  Kazi Golam Nasir
Treasurer:                     Ar. Sazzadur Rashid
Member (Education)      Ar. Abu Sayeed M Ahmed
Member (Publication)    Ar. Albab Ahmed
Member (Seminar)        Ar. K Z Hossain Taufique
Member (Culture)          Ar. Md. Saiful Islam
Member (Membership)  Ar. Md. Taher Azad
Member (Profession):    Ar. Jalal Ahmed

16th Executive Committee of IAB: News Archive

16th Executive Committee of IAB formally announced:
President: Ar. Khadem Ali
Vice-President: Ar. Haroon Ur Rashid
General Secretary: Ar. Md. Mahbubur Rahman
Joint Secretary: Ar. Qazi Mohammad Arif
Treasurer: Ar. Md. Rejaul Karim
Member (Education)   Ar. Mohammad Ali Naqi
Member (Publication)  Ar. Md. Ehsan Khan
Member (Seminar) Ar. Md Rafiq Azam
Member (Culture)  Ar. Shakoor Majid
Member (Membership)  Ar. Rabiul Hassan
Member (Profession): Ar. Mozaffar Uddin Chowdhury