Marina Tabassum

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Marina Tabassum during a lecture at Columbia University (2019)

Marina Tabassum (* 1969 in Dhaka ) is an architect from Bangladesh . She heads the architecture office Marina Tabassum Architects. Typical of her work is the strong connection to the Bangladeshi culture and history, to traditional building materials and to the regional climate . In 2016 she won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of the Baitur-Rauf-Jame Mosque in Dhaka.

Youth and education

According to his own statement, Tabassum comes from a family in which women have enjoyed an education for three to four generations. In an interview she said that many of her female relatives are doctors and teachers and she is the only architect. Tabassum graduated from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995 with honors. She gained her first professional experience in the office of Uttam Kumar Saha, Nandan Architects . According to her own statement, she realized during this time that she did not work profitably, but wanted to pursue a more sustainable concept of architecture. In her early years as an architect, she was heavily influenced by Muzharul Islam and his vision of modern, social architecture.

Create

In 1995 Tabassum founded the Urbana architectural office in Dhaka together with Kashef Chowdhury. Two years later, the office won the competition to design the Independence Monument and the Independence Museum in Bangladesh. In 2005 she ended the partnership to found Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), also in Dhaka.

As a visiting professor, Tabassum a. a. at Harvard , at the University of Texas (2015), at BRAC University in Dhaka (2005–2015) and at the Technical University of Delft . Since 2015 she has headed the academic program of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements.

Tabassum designed the Baitur Rauf Jame Mosque in Dhaka, which was completed in 2012. The client was Tabassum's grandmother, who honored her deceased daughter, Tabassum's mother, with the building. The construction was carried out with a minimal budget over a period of twelve years. The mosque , built from bricks with a reinforced concrete skeleton , now serves not only as a place of worship, but also as a meeting place, school and playground in an otherwise architecturally neglected area on the outskirts of Dhaka. Tabassum won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture with the project in 2016 .

In 2017, together with students and local craftsmen, she developed houses for residents of the frequently flooded Ganges delta . Each house could only cost $ 2,000. The project was developed as part of Tabassum's teaching activities at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A year later, she and 70 other architects took part in the Freespace exhibition as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale. In her contribution, Tabassum documented the inner courtyards of traditional houses in the Ganges Delta and associated objects of daily use.

She is a member of the supervisory board of the fair trade company "Prokritee", which helps Bangladeshi craftswomen to export their products.

Awards

  • 2004: Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award
  • 2004: Architect of the Year Award for the NEK10 project in Dhaka
  • 2004: Shortlisted in the competition for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Tabassum's apartment, the so-called Pavilion Apartment
  • 2006: Second place in the Nishorgo Architectural Competition
  • 2016: Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Baitur-Rauf-Jame Mosque
  • 2018: Jameel Prize (together with Mehdi Moutashar) for the Baitur-Rauf-Jame Mosque

Web links

Commons : Marina Tabassum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Marina Tabassum is an architect, winner of Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 and Principal of MTA. In: Bengal Institute. Retrieved July 21, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Marina Tabassum. In: TU Delft. Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Rowena Hockin: Marina Tabassum: Ideas over gender. In: Architectureau. June 17, 2014, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Lecture: Marina Tabassum - Basel. In: world-architects.com. 2016, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  6. ^ Finding clarity in work is a matter of practice: Marina Tabassum. In: The Business Standard. February 8, 2020, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Laura Weissmüller: "Houses have to breathe, they need air and light". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 15, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Marina Tabassum. In: Archnet. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Participant Marina Tabassum Architects. In: Rights of Future Generations - Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Karim, Naimul: Marina Tabassum: An architect in search of roots . The Daily Star. June 17, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  11. ^ Mosque in Dhaka. October 4, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Marina Tabassum. In: Harvard University Graduate School of Design. March 21, 2017, Retrieved July 27, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects Among 2016 Aga Khan Award Recipients. In: Architectural Record. BNP Media, October 3, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
  14. ↑ $ 2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta. In: Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ Wisdom of the Land - Marina Tabassum's Installations at the Venice Biennale 2018. Retrieved on July 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ TEDxYouth @ SirJohnWilsonSchool | TED. In: TED. December 15, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ SAT Talks || Marina Tabassum. In: Sharjah Architecture Triennial. October 28, 2018, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Marina Tabassum | Pavilion Apartment. In: Archnet. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Nishorgo Architectural Competition Winners Awarded. In: The Daily Star. August 10, 2006, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  20. ^ Rupert Hawksley: Iraqi artist and Bangladeshi architect become first joint winners of the Jameel Prize. In: The National. July 1, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tabassum, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Dhaka