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The Vanishing Traces: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture.
The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the home of a number of Tibeto-Burman tribal groups, quite different from the mainstream Bangladeshi population. The vernacular housing of these communities is also unique and adapted sustainably to the hilly context, but for a variety of reasons is undergoing transformation, particularly the influence of the housing patterns of the mainstream population of the floodplains. The Chittagong Hill Tract housing styles and techniques are a valuable cultural resource; it is important to have a record of them before they vanish.
This book brings together a compilation of the housing patterns of eleven of the main ethnic groups, including extensive photographs and drawings. A key question regarding the future uncertainty of the vernacular housing of these communities is ultimately posed: Will this unique and valuable cultural resource be eventually subsumed within the broader social, cultural and economic transformations that are not only local, but global?
Illustrated with 165 B&W photographs and 1 map.
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Iftekhar Ahmed
Iftekhar Ahmed is an architect by profession and also an academic in that field. He is a Research Fellow at the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University, Australia and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and a PhD in architecture from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Previously Iftekhar taught at the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). He has authored many publications relating to the subject of this book including articles in the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (Cambridge University Press, UK, 1997) and the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Asiatic Press, Dhaka, 2003). His book Up to the Waist in Mud (University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1994) is the first and only one of its kind on earthen architecture of Bangladesh. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and son.
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