Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

Kahn’s monumental parliamentary complex in Dhaka, completed in 1982, is framed by geometric openings and water courts.

Large circles, triangles, and other cuts in concrete and brick sculpt light and shadow.

Lakes, axes, and assembly spaces extend a national institution to the scale of city and landscape.

This late work joins climate, material, and symbolism in a landmark of South Asian modernism.

Monumentality

Architect Louis Kahn