Jalal Ahmad

Jalal Ahmad (Bengali: জালাল আহমদ) is a practicing Bangladeshi architect. He is the General secretary of Institute of Architects Bangladesh^[1] and the Vice president of Commonwealth Association of Architects.^[2]

Career

Jalal(3rd from right) at Architecture, SUST jury session

Jalal Ahmad was born in 1959, Sylhet. He completed his bachelor of architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and established Diagram Architects in 1983 with two other partners. Later he started his own architectural farm J. A. Architects in 1997. He won the North South University Campus International Design Competition (2002) and Mujib Nagar Memorial Open Design Competition (1984). He is a founding member of the architectural research group CHETANA, established in 1983.^[3][4]

Notable works

• Scholastica school at Dhaka and Savar
• Training And Resource Center, BRAC at Faridpur, Rangpur and Bogra
• Dominic Residence, Tanzania

Awards

• IAB Architect of the Year Award

References

Architecture of Bangladesh
Styles	Bengali Mughal Colonial
Buildings and structures	Temples Mosques Colonial Buildings Museums Buddhist viharas Stadiums
Notable Architects	Fazlur Rahman Khan Abu Sayeed M Ahmed Salauddin Ahmed Syed Mainul Hossain Muzharul Islam Bashirul Haq Yafes Osman Saleh Uddin Mustapha Khalid Palash Abu H Imamuddin Enamul Karim Nirjhar Khondaker Hasibul Kabir Ehsan Khan Khaleda Ekram Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury Mubasshar Hussein Saif Ul Haque Kazi Khaleed Ashraf Jalal Ahmad
Other	Dhaka Chittagong Rajshahi Khulna Barisal Sylhet Rangpur
Institutes	Society of Architectural Historians of Bengal Institute of Architects Bangladesh Housing & Building Research Institute List of architecture schools in Bangladesh
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