MARINA TABASSUM Architecture: My Journey is the first book devoted to the Bangladeshi architect
Marina Tabassum and her multifaceted architectural oeuvre. Marina Tabassum's exploratory
approach makes her architectural practice one of the outstanding contemporary positions
internationally. Her diverse oeuvre spans from governmental projects to housing and has brought
her numerous honors and accolades in the international field of architecture. This volume
presents various public and private building projects that Marina Tabassum has worked on since
1995 first with the architectural office URBANA and since 2005 through Marina Tabassum
Architects (MTA). The selection of her architecture in this book ranges from early projects in
the city of Dhaka shortly after completing her studies at Bangladesh University of Engineering
and Technology (BUET) such as the Museum of Independence and the celebrated Bait Ur Rouf
Mosque to recent mobile modular structures called Khudi Bari. Tabassum is establishing the
latter for the people affected by displacement in various geographically and climatically
challenged locations-both in the Ganges Delta and in the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox's Bazar
on the border to Myanmar which is currently the largest refugee camp in the world. The
internationally renowned authors reflect on various perspectives and interpretations of
Tabassum's work. Besides the historical and political background the contributions deal among
other things with spotlighting particular architectural elements that pervade Tabassum's work
such as place and memory light and spirituality brick and materiality and people and
community. With contributions by Sean Anderson Vera Simone Bader Kareem Ibrahim Hanif Kara
Andres Lepik Nondita Correa Mehrotra Tanzil Shafique Cristina Steingräber Marina Tabassum
Sarah M. Whiting and Danny Wicaksono.
