Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
কাজী খালিদ আশরাফ
Born1959
Alma materBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Architect,

educator, urbanist,

historian
Websitekaziashraf.com

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is a Bangladeshi architect, urbanist and architectural historian.[1][2] Writing from the intersection of architecture, landscape and the city, Ashraf has authored books and essays on architecture in India and Bangladesh, the work of Louis Kahn, and the city of Dhaka. His various writings on the architecture of Bangladesh have provided a theoretical ground for understanding both the historical and contemporary forms of architecture, while his written and design work on Dhaka advances that city as a "theorem" for understanding urbanism in a deltaic geography.[3] Ashraf and contributing team received the Pierre Vago Journalism Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics for the Architectural Design publication Made in India.[4] He has also co-authored a number of publications with the architect Saif Ul Haque. Ashraf has recently established an international publication series called Locations: Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism that will present works and features from around the globe.[citation needed]

Ashraf received his bachelor of architecture from BUET in 1983. Later he received Masters from MIT and PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Currently, director-general of Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements.[5] Ashraf also taught at University of Hawaii,[6] the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Pratt Institute.[4]

He is also a co-founder of the cartoon magazine Unmad.[7] established in 1978, in which he contributed as a cartoonist. His editorial drawings have appeared in The Nation, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times.[citation needed]

In 2021, he was invited to be on the Master Jury of the 2020-2022 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.[8]

  1. ^ Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (7 March 2010). "A new Dhaka is possible". The Daily Star. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
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  3. ^ Sharmillie Rahman (2013). "Redesigning Dhaka". Depart Magazine. No. 16.
  4. ^ a b Arindam Chakrabarti (2016). The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 415. ISBN 978-1-4725-2597-0.
  5. ^ "Home".
  6. ^ "Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Teaching". University of Hawaii at Manoa. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  7. ^ "U N M A D - h O m E : kNOw thyself-Think about others". Unmadproducts.com. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Aga Khan Award: Architect Kazi Khaleed Ashraf selected as jury member". The Daily Star. 3 October 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.