Useful Links

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The founder

• Faculty profile of Mohammad Habib Reza, BRAC University
• Team profile, ArCHIAM
• Author page, The Daily Star
• Speaker profile, UIA World Congress of Architects 2023, Copenhagen

The principal texts

• ‘New contextualism: A path to a sustainable and equitable future’, The Business Standard, 2023
• ‘New Contextualism: An architectural philosophy for deltaic Bangladesh’, The Daily Star, 2025
• ‘New Contextualism: Architecture and Urbanism for People, Place, and Justice’, Context BD, 2025

Every record in the Bibliographic Archive links to its original where one is available online.

Publications that have covered the approach

• Context BD, an online magazine of architecture in Bangladesh, which published the September 2025 essay and listings of the 2024 workshop and the 2025 symposium.
• Arch-Bangla, which reported the workshops of 2023 and 2024 and has published student projects that draw on the approach.
• Esempi di Architettura, vol. 13, no. 2, the 2026 journal issue with the article on Somapura Mahavihara.

Community

• New Contextual Group on Facebook, through which the organisers of the 2025 symposium posted updates. This platform is not connected with the group’s account.

Frameworks and data referred to on this platform

• The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, United Nations, with which New Contextualism 2.0 aligns itself.
• Natural Earth, the public-domain map data used for the Project Map.