On October 26, 2006, a lecture on 'Kahn in the Tropics' was delivered by Dr. Zainab Faruqui Ali at the School of Architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Zainab talked about the works of Kahn, focussing on the National Assembly Building at Dhaka from the bioclimatic point of view to show the various elements and strategies used successfully by the architect in dealing with the climatic problems of the context. Undergraduate students, faculty and architects attended the lecture.