Marina Tabassum

Marina Tabassum is a Bangladeshi architect.[2] She is the principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects. In 2016, she won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of Bait-ur-Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[3]

Marina Tabassum
Born1970/1971 (age 49–50)[1]
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Occupationarchitect
AwardsAnannya Top Ten Awards (2004)
Websitemtarchitekts.com

In 2020, Tabassum was listed by Prospect as the third-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, with the magazine writing, “At the forefront of creating buildings in tune with their natural environments, this Bangladeshi architect is also embracing the design challenges posed by what we are collectively doing to the planet.”[4]

Early life and education

Tabassum was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the daughter of an oncologist. Her family migrated to Dhaka, Bangladesh from India during the partition of Bengal in 1947. She attended Holy Cross Girls School and College. Tabassum graduated in architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1994.[5]

Career

In 1995 Tabassum founded URBANA, an architecture practice based in Dhaka, Bangladesh with Kashef Chowdhury.[6][7] The firm designed a number of projects for about ten years.

In 2005 Tabassum established her own practice, Marina Tabassum Architects, and she serves as its principal architect.

Since 2005 Tabassum has been a visiting professor at the BRAC University,[5] where she has also taught courses on Contemporary South Asian Architecture. She also conducts undergraduate studios at the University of Asia Pacific, and has given lectures and presentations at a number of other educational institutions and conferences. She has been the Director of Academic Program at Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements since 2015.[8]

Tabassum was the designer of Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, which was completed in 2012.[9] In 2016 the project was shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award.[10]

Awards and honors

References
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  2. "Architecture fuses engineering, arts". Daily Star, March 19, 2016
  3. Fixsen, Anna (October 3, 2016). "BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects Among 2016 Aga Khan Award Recipients". Architectural Record. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  4. "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  5. "MTA Profile". mtarchitekts.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  6. Hockin, Rowena (June 17, 2014). "Marina Tabassum: Ideas over gender". Architecture AU. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  7. 'New styles of Architecture, a change of heart' The Daily Stsr
  8. "Marina Tabassum - Director, Academic Program, Bengal Institute". Bengal Institute profile, 3 February 2018
  9. Karim, Naimul (June 17, 2016). "Marina Tabassum: An architect in search of roots". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  10. "Zaha Hadid among architects shortlisted for 2016 Aga Khan Award". De Zeen, 9 May 2016
  11. "Nishorgo Architectural Competition Winners awarded". The Daily Star. August 10, 2006. Retrieved October 11, 2016.


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