Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

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Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is a Bangladeshi architect, urbanist and architectural researcher.[1] Ashraf received his bachelor of architecture from BUET in 1983. Later he received Masters from MIT and PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Currently, professor of architecture at University of Hawaii,[2] he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Pratt Institute.[3]

Ashraf received the Pierre Vago Journalism Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics for the Architectural Design publication Made in India.[3] He has co-authored a number of publications with the architect Saif Ul Haque. He is also a cartoonist and co-founder of the cartoon magazine Unmad.[4]

Books

  • National Capital of Bangladesh (GA Edita, Tokyo, 1994)
  • An Architecture of Independence: The Making of Modern South Asia, with James Belluardo (Architectural League of New York, New York, 1997)
  • Pundranagar to Sherebanglanagar: Architecture in Bangladesh, with Saif Ul Haque and Raziul Ahsan (Chetana, Dhaka, 1997)
  • Sherebanglanagar: Louis Kahn and the Making of a Capital Complex (Loka Press, Dhaka, 2002)
  • Made in India (AD, London, 2007)
  • Designing Dhaka: A Manifesto for a Better City (Loka Press, Dhaka, 2012)
  • The Hermit's Hut: Asceticism and Architecture in India (Spatial Habitues) (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
  • Louis Kahn: House of the Nation with Richard Saul Wurman and Grischa Ruschendorf (Oro Editions, 2014)

References

  1. ↑ Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (2010-03-07). "A new Dhaka is possible". Thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2012-09-08. 
  2. ↑ "Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Teaching :: University of Hawaii at Manoa". Hawaii.edu. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2012-09-08. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kazi Ashraf". Web1.arch.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-09. 
  4. ↑ "U N M A D - h O m E : kNOw thyself-Think about others". Unmadproducts.com. Retrieved 2012-09-08. 


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