In the flood plains of Bangladesh lies an architectural masterpiece that would be a jewel anywhere in the world. It seems especially luminous in a poor country like Bangladesh. The design was architect Louis Kahn’s last opportunity to explore a timeless form of architecture that marries the modern and traditional.

The capital buildings of Dhaka represent the justice system, government and prayer life of the country, founded in 1971 as a parliamentary democracy. Kahn worked on the 900 acre site in the decade before his death. The commission permitted Kahn to design at a large scale, incorporating his ideas about monumentality and spirituality in architecture.

Finished in 1982 in spite of war and instability, the National Assembly Complex or Sher-E-Bangla Nagar as it is called, is a vision of the new country. Like the medieval cathedral which was conceived as a microcosm of heaven on earth, and the great Buddhist stuppas, replicas of the universe which symbolize man’s journey to enlightenment, Kahn’s design is about an ideal community which is just, governed wisely and at one with the universe.

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