Background
Bashirul Haq was born on 24 June in 1942 in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh to a respectable family in Brahmanbaria. His father was a Deputy Collector of Sylhet district.
Bashirul Haq was born on 24 June in 1942 in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh to a respectable family in Brahmanbaria. His father was a Deputy Collector of Sylhet district.
Bashirul completed his Bachelor of Architecture from National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 1964. He received ′John Heimrich Tuition, Scholarship′ and Teaching Assistantship at University of New Mexico, United States in 1971 and completed his Master of Architecture from the university in 1975.
In 1971 he obtained a teaching assistantship at the University of New Mexico under the John Heimrich Tuition, Scholarship. In 1977 he established Bashirul Haq & Associates and started practicing architecture. In 1989 he visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an invited design critic. In his 45 years of professional career Haq has designed more than 300 buildings. His designed buildings are characterized by extensive use of tactile materials such as hand made brick, rough concrete and natural woods.
Quotes from others about the person
Works of Bashirul Haq, employing culturally syncretistic devices, mark the tentative beginning of this research. Bashirul Haq has particularly endeared himself for his notable rendition of private houses—quite, unobtrusive masonry volumes in close affiliation with the setting. His special sensitivity for the domestic realm is meticulously articulated in his own house and studio—light, plantation and construction materials as tactile sensation, and the crafting of space, hierarchical, exterior-interior, private-public, diversely volumed—all create a memorable experience of living. (excerpted from the essay originally published in MIMAR 31, 1989 By Kazi K. Ashraf)