This book, which introduces the works of the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, is her first monograph to be published in Japan.
It features fifteen architectural projects by Tabassum, who responds flexibly to the challenging issues in Bangladesh, such as natural disasters, socio-economic disparities, refugees, and rapid urbanization, and creates architecture for people. The book also includes a dialogue between Tabassum and Shigeru Ban, who both address social issues through architecture, as well as an essay by Momoyo Kaijima, a woman architect of the same generation and a personal friend of Tabassum.

A Bangladeshi architect and educator, Marina Tabassum founded Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects in 2005. In her work, Tabassum seeks to establish a language of architecture that is contemporary yet reflectively rooted to place, always against an ecological rubric containing climate, context, culture, history. The portfolio of work notwithstanding, Tabassum's practice remains consciously contained in size, undertaking a limited number of projects per year.
Tabassum is a Professor at Technical University Delft, in the Netherlands. She has taught in Yale School of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, University of Toronto, University of Texas, Bengal Institute and BRAC University.
She received Honorary Doctorate from Technical University of Munich. In addition to Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, she has received many accolades including the Jameel Prize, Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and Soane medal in Architecture from the United Kingdom. She is the designer of the Serpentine Pavilion 2025.
Between 2018 and 2020, MTA was part of the group exhibition Bengal Stream that travelled in Switzerland, France, Germany and Dhaka. The oce also participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018 and 2025, as well as the Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019. In 2023, MTA's first monograph, Marina Tabassum: Architecture, My Journey, was published by ArchiTangle. MTA's Khudi Bari is in the permanent collection of the Vitra Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Currently, MTA's works are the subject of a monographic travelling exhibition showing in Munich, Lisbon, Delft and Tokyo.