During 10 years of instance affiliation with Architecture as a student, researcher, educator and practitioner, architect Shafique Rahman has designed and involved with a number of projects in Bangladesh and Australia. Among his professional years he worked with Crawford Architects in Sydney, where he worked alongside numerous international professionals, while taking up opportunities to work in a number of Housing Projects. Shafique Rahman studied Bachelor of Architecture at the Architecture Discipline of Khulna University and he completed his Master’s Degree on Sustainable Design from the Faculty of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Australia. Amongst his many noteworthy [...]

Climate change is not just an idea today. It is happening now, impacting communities, cities, ecology and entire living systems on earth.  Not just on paper, the science is clearer than ever and it is distressing our real world experience, destabilising our climate, from floods to drought and wildfires to typhoon and super storms. One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is what ecologists call “mismatch” or “mistiming.” This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to [...]

National newspaper “The Independent” published an article “Paris Climate Talks and Bangladesh” written by Architect Shafique Rahman. “The Independent” is a recognized national newspaper in Bangladesh published the article on 27th December, 2015. Complexity in transboundary water issues between Bangladesh and India still remain in gray.  The rivers are drying out and our agriculture, hydropower generation, urban development and ecosystems are no more a successive process of sharing river-water. Every day we are digging deep to hit the fossil water and these underground aquifers are getting to the end of their reserves. Cities are more vulnerable to supply the heavy [...]

“The Independent” is a recognized national newspaper in Bangladesh published “The Aesthetics” written by Architect Shafique Rahman on 30th March, 2015. It is not money, but the energy which keeps our civilization running. We have taken for granted the daily use of fossil fuel for our transportation system, for creating artificial environments in our houses or in the offices, for driving our factories and so forth. Only around 300 years ago, in 1709, it was the beginning of coal mining on a substantial scale in Britain. For the first time, it was possible to pumping technology to go deep underground [...]