Tanjina Khan
Tanjina Khan is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, Brac University and a practicing architect. She successfully completed her bachelor's degree in architecture from BracU in 2008. She has earned her Master of Design Science degree in a dual stream in 'Sustainable Design and Building Services’ from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Tanjina is a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and empathetic architect and academic who values context, climate, and culture. She believes in interdisciplinary solutions for the built environment's sustainable future. Her current work investigates how to make urban-built life more adaptable and flexible. This research seeks to identify and investigate the practice of repurposing-built forms that were originally intended for a completely different purpose. In pursuit of adaptability, her most recent project, which was awarded by the British Academy, focused on discovering post-colonial identity through climate-responsive architectural adaptations. She worked as a co-researcher on international initiatives such as the "Zero-Carbon Bamboo Building Project'' and the "Million Cool Roofs Challenge''.
Tanjina has been engaged in the professional practice of architecture since 2007. She has worked as an architectural intern with Pritzker laureate architect B.V. Doshi, as an architect and urban designer at a Bangladeshi architectural firm "Tanya Karim N.R. Khan and Associates". Later on, she had decided to shift her focus towards architectural pedagogy which led her to join the architecture department at North South University in Bangladesh. She eventually joined her alma mater, Brac University, with the intention of combining research and teaching. In addition, Tanjina is a freelance architect who has designed residential buildings, interiors, commercial spaces, and residential landscapes across Bangladesh.
Tanjina is well published. She has worked on the book chapter of Bashirul Haq Architect and taken part in several acclaimed conference proceedings. Her research interests are adaptive reuse, urban adaptive built environments, urban landscape and place-making, and people-place inter-relationships in place attachment, to name a few. She is also a proud recipient of some of the highest accolades, awards and scholarships like the ‘Gold Medal Award’ in her Bachelor of Architecture from Brac University, ‘EMMAsia 2013’ (Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia) Guest faculty in the University of Evora, Portugal, 'Endeavour Postgraduate Award' for Masters of Design Science (Sustainable Design & Building Services) funded by the Australian Government at The University of Sydney, Australia and many more.
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