Ismat Hossain

Education

B.Arch, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
M.Arch, Dessau Institute of Architecture, Dessau, Germany
Ph.D. Candidate: Architecture, UW-Milwaukee

Biography

Ismat is an architect and educator. She is currently a Doctoral student at UWM and also holds a position of Assistant Professor (adjunct). Ismat has an interdisciplinary approach towards her work and believes in meaningful collaboration between theory, research and design. She has extensive experience as a licensed architect in Bangladesh and has won multiple design awards. She also worked as an intern at Zaha Hadid and Associates in London after completing her Masters from DiA. Her studio work ‘Bone Beam’ was published in the Beijing Biennale in 2006. Her master’s thesis titled “Reciprocal Places: the performative ‘becoming’ of ‘correlate space’”, examines issues of space, identity and diaspora as it coalesces across time and place.

Ismat’s research interests cover areas in diaspora and place-making,  indigenous building practices, marginalized communities and settlements, urban ecology and landscape, responsive environments and sensory perceptions of space. Her current research investigates Aging and the scope of intergenerational living in context of the built environment in a climate disaster prone world.