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Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury / URBANA

Bangladesh

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Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, the son of a civil engineer, growing up in Bangladesh and the Middle East before graduating in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1995. In 2006, he attended the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass in Sydney. After working with architect Uttam Kumar Saha, he established the practice URBANA in partnership in 1995 and from 2004 has continued as the sole Principal of the firm.

Kashef Chowdhury has been a visiting faculty at the North South University and BRAC University, in Bangladesh. He was twice finalist in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and in 2012 has won the first prize in Architectural Review’s AR+D Emerging Architecture Award.

Kashef Chowdhury takes an active interest in art and has worked as a professional photographer.

Friendship Centre, Gaibandha (Bangladesh), 2008-2012. © Photo by Hélène Binet

Cyclone Shelter, Kuakata (Bangladesh), 2008-2018. © Photo by Kashef Chowdhury

Hospital, Satkhira (Bangladesh), 2012-2018. © Photo by courtesy of Kashef Chowdhury

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