People, Place and Time
Exploration of Hand-Crafted and Digital Technologies
STHA.NI.K.
SthaNiK (স্থাপত্য নির্মাণ কর্ম) was formed in 2008 as a research oriented studio to incorporate old-school design procedures and construction techniques with contemporary design processes. Venturing towards a connectivity of the regional practice of design and construction with the global perspective, the studio aims at redefining the constraints from the context with continuous feed-back from the surrounding information wave. The design ideology is always leaning towards a marriage of narrative compulsive ‘artistic infatuation’ with the analytic derivation of geometry and material formation. The firm participated in many architectural competitions and has been awarded in some major competitions including 1st prize in ‘Holcim Green Built Bangladesh’, idea project category; 2nd prize in Gulshan Club, 3rd prize in Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh. STHANIK received IAB Design Award 2018, the most prestigious architectural design award of the country, for designing public place.
Saiqa Iqbal Meghna
Saiqa Iqbal Meghna graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology with Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2008 and pursued Masters in Advanced Architecture from Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Spain in 2011. She attended Glenn Murcutt International Master Class in 2015 with a scholarship as an emerging woman architect from Bangladesh.
She founded SthaNiK Consultants with her partners in 2009 and later in 2014 founded a collaborative practice Studio Morphogenesis. Both offices participated and won awards in several architectural competitions. Besides practicing she is also teaching in BRAC University as an assistant professor. Being an avid traveller, she travelled across cities of Europe and visited reputed architectural schools, firms and manufacturer’s offices while observing the art, architecture, places and people with deep curiosity. She presented design works in international conferences which reflects her interest in bridging the gap between profession and academia. She was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship twice to visit Portugal as a teaching fellow.
Suvro Sovon Chowdhury
Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 19 September, 1984
Suvro Sovon Chowdhury graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology with Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2008. After establishing SthaNik Consultants with fellow architects in 2008 he went to the Bartlett School of Architecture in University College London to pursue Masters in Architecture degree on Architectural Design in 2014-15 and completed the degree with a distinction in design.
He attended many presentation and lectures in Architectural Association, Bartlett, Harvard University GSD,USA, Columbia University and visited Media LAB at MIT, USA. He also participated and jointly presented papers in many national and international seminars and conferences. While being a partner of Sthanik Consultants, Suvro is currently also involved as one of the Directors in the collaboration titled Studio Morphogenesis LTD.