Bio

Dilruba F. Shuvra is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and a Doctoral Student in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Her academic interests lie at the intersection of architecture, vernacular and cultural landscape, cultural identity, rural-urban interrelationship i.e. “rurbanism”, and how we might decolonize our concept of designing and reading built-environment and look for de-urban ideas. She has received the prestigious fellowship for the NYU Cities Collaborative-Mellon Summer Institute on Urbanism, 2022, and the VAF Ambassadors Award at the VAF 2023 Annual Conference in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

She is also a licensed architect in Bangladesh and was the Lead Architect in the Women’s Social Architecture Project of OXFAM-Bangladesh (WASH sector) at Rohingya Refugee Camps, Cox’s Bazar.

Education

KU Leuven, Belgium - Masters in Human Settlement (MaHS) 2016
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh - Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch) 2008

Research Focus

Architectural history
vernacular architecture
humanitarian and cultural landscape
community architecture and participatory design
rurbanism and de-urbanism, photography

Courses

ARCH 190, Nature & Architecture
ARCH 790/390, Special Topics: Internship
ARCH 304, Contemporary Criticism & Urbanism (TA)
ARCH 302, Architecture & Human Behavior