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textbook never said These_

I spenta decade drawing buildings before I startedquestioningthem. WhatI found was this_
— Architecture is
not qualitative. It is measurable. It isbinary. It is adecisionthat changeshow people move, gather, avoid or connect.
This is where I document what I am learning to see.

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Thinking out loud

LAST THOUGHT

Ideas that change how you see Architecture.

10 years of practice, 100 of buildings, 1000 of small decisions that nobody questions. This blog is me finally questioning them ( in বাংলা ভাষাতে 🙂 )
This is the place where I collect those questions
— and slowly, post by post, try to find the answers.

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“My personal take on architecture. Exploring how we live, breathe, and connect within the walls we build.” How I see it architecture 101 1.2 Definition 1.9 আপনি কি কখনো খেয়াল করে দেখেছেন বৃষ্টির ফোঁটা? জানালার কাচে?… একটা ফোঁটা পড়ে –…

Some things need "Words"

RECENT POSTS

not everything fits in a drawing

Architecture changed how I see everything. Not just buildings — neighborhoods, power, people, politics. These posts are where I write that down. Slowly. Without pretending I have all the answers.

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AI & Architecture

The Theory

A new Lens

Architecture gave me a language. Twelve years of practice gave me doubts about it.

The definition I was taught in university — I do not fully believe it anymore. Not because it is wrong. Because it is incomplete. Space is not just form and function. It is behaviour. It is politics. It is a binary process we are only beginning to measure properly.

That is what I am working on now – The Measuring.

Connecting architecture to society, to AI, to a way of seeing buildings that is less about beauty and more about what actually happens inside them. I am working on web apps around that belief. I am redrafting the definitions I was told never to question.

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S. M. Khan
Architect
B.Arch (KU), MSc.HS (KU)