SHATOTTO architecture for green living

Md. Rafiq Azam is one of the internationally acclaimed architects from Bangladesh practicing for the last 27 years and developed a remarkable style of his own. His architecture is a fusion of tradition, nature and mysticism with significant harmony. The use of plants and roof gardens, blending of various materials with simplicity in expression, reviving traditional elements from old Dhaka, for example elimination of boundary walls, that segregates human from buildings or introducing glass as boundary wall to create a new paradigm which connects city environment and building. These are distinctive features of his designs. Tiny elements of nature are adorned in his building with poetic beauty and HOUSE to him is not just an abode for human but a nest for butterflies and birds too. Rafiqs mastery in using light and shadow, water and air inside and outside the building is influenced by such mysticism cited by Lalon and Tagore. His green architecture is not a mere mechanism of energy saving rather it seems like an inspiring process of energy gaining.
Rafiq Azam is a 1989 graduate from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) His practice name is SHATOTTO architecture for green living since May 1995. In 2004, Rafiq Azam participated in Glenn Murcutt Master Class.
As a visiting faculty he taught at the National University of Singapore, NED Karachi, Jadavpur University India, BRAC University, University of Asia Pacific, North South University Dhaka, and Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka.
As invited speaker Azam lectured many occasions and attracted the world media and works published in many parts of the world.