Nubras Samayeen Ifla Asla Associate

About Nubras Samayeen Ifla Asla Associate

Nubras Samayeen is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint program of Landscape Architecture and Architecture at the University of Illinois. Her research on Louis Kahn probes Western colonialism and modernism’s instrumentality in homogenizing history, tradition, and culture across the globe. She explores the relationship between architecture and landscape and investigates the construction of national identity through built forms After her undergraduate degree in architecture from Bangladesh, she completed dual master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with distinction. Her design career began at- Eisenman Architects, HOK (New York) and Zimmer-Gunsul-Frasca LLP (DC). At Illinois, she received the Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship, Kennedy and Feil Travel Awards, AAUW International fellowship New York and Washington DC as an architect and also taught at Howard University. At Illinois received the prestigious HRI (Humanities Research Institute) Fellowship 2020-21, Dumbarton Oak’s Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Workshop Award (Harvard University. 2018); Kennedy and Feil Travel Awards (UIUC-2017); and AAUW (2018). Among her publications, “Re-Constructing ’71: The Visual Landscape of Bangladeshi Nationalism Today,” \"Post-71: Photographic Ambivalences, Archives, and the Construction of a National Identity of Bangladesh.\" “Space to Breathe: George Floyd, BLM plaza and the Monumentalization of Divided American Urban landscapes,” and “A Tale of Two Cities: Dhaka’s Urban Imaginary in 21st Century,” are the most recent ones. In addition to her publications, she received numerous national-international design-awards including runners-up in Future Legacies Design Competition (2017), Canada and first prize in Designing Conflict (2010) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Experience

1. Senior Associate

   Reincarnation

   Nov 2017 — Present · Dhaka, BD

Education

• University of Michigan

  M.U.D, Urban Design

  2001 — 2003

• Cornell University

  Critical Theory and Analysis

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  PhD, Landscape Architecture

• Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

  Bachelors of Architecture (B. Arch), Architecture

  1995 — 2001

• Study Abroad to Prague, the Czech Republic -From T.C.A.U.P

  Non-Degree, Architecture+Urbanism-extensive travel- cities in the Netherlands-Germany-Switzerland-England-France

  2002

• University of Michigan

  M.Arch, Architecture

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Urban Design
• Architecture
• Project Planning
• Sustainable Architecture
• Research
• Urbanism
• Sustainable Design
• Leed Ap
• Architectural Design
• Revit
• Submittals
• Sketchup
• Interior Design
• Design Research
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Autocad
• Comprehensive Planning
• Landscape Architecture
• Rendering
• Historic Preservation
• Urban Planning
• Urban
• Model Making
• Autocad Architecture
• Bim
• Green Building
• Architectural Drawings
• Architectures
• Site Planning
• Leed