Adnan Morshed

Adnan Morshed () is a Bangladeshi architect and educator. He is currently associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America and visiting professor of architecture at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Morshed has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians (2006-2009) and on the jury of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. He has been awarded highly competitive fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Wolfsonian-Florida International University. His research has garnered prestigious research grants from the Graham Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and MIT. Morshed has consulted Moshe Safdie and the design team of MIT for designing the Asian University for Women.
Education
Adnan Morshed completed his Bachelor of Architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1991, winning the Best Thesis Award. He completed Master of Architecture and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology respectively in 1995 and 2002. He achieved post-doctoral degree from Smithsonian Institution in 2004.
Career
Morshed has taught at many architectural institutions around the globe including MIT, Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, Washington State University, University of Florida, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
Architectural practice
* Ongoing project: Mixed-use 12 storied tower in downtown Chittagong, Bangladesh
* 100-bed general hospital with diagnostic facilities in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh; project financed by International Federation Terre des Hommes, Geneva and Brussels
* Community Mosque in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh; Completed in 2006
* Consulted the design teams of MIT and RISD for the Asian University for Women, 2004-2006
* Member, Facilities Planning Committee, the Asian University for Women (2004-2006)
* Residential projects in West Palm Beach, Florida and Mississauga, Canada, 1998
* International Design Competition for the Reconstruction of the Souks of Beirut, 1994 (honorable mention from the Boston Society of Architects)
* Architect-Partner in Riddhi Architects & Associates, Dhaka, Bangladesh; completed projects include four residential buildings, two office buildings and a number of interior designs in Bangladesh, 1990-2000.
* Architect, Medical Center of the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka 1991-1995
* Architect, Bangla Academy Renovation Project, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1992
* Seaside restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1987 (honorable mention from the Commonwealth Association of Architects)
Publications
* Forthcoming book from the University of Minnesota Press: “The Architecture of Ascension: Airplanes, Skyscrapers, and the American Imagination of the Master Planner, 1919-1939” (Spring 2011)
* Forthcoming: “Ascending with Nine Chains to the Moon: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideation of the Genius,” New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Fall 2010
* “Sharifa’s House,” Architectural Design, special theme issue, Made in India, November/December 2007
* “Architecture as Empowerment: The Female Borrowers of the Grameen Bank Housing Loan,” Jamini, International Arts Quarterly, Spring 2008.
* “The Polyvalent Urbanity of Henry James’s Washington,” in the inaugural issue of DCenter, a Washington, D.C. journal of architectural and urban issues, Spring 2007.
* Film review of My Architect: A Son’s Journey (directed by Nathaniel Kahn), in the Journal of Architectural Education 58:3, February 2005.
* Exhibition review of “PSFS: Nothing More Modern” at Yale Architecture, Constructs, Spring 2005.
* “The Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 63:1 (March 2004; cover article).
* “The Architecture of Ascension: Aviation and the Avant-Garde Imagination of the Future City,” Center 23, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, June 2002-May 2003.
* “The Cultural Politics of the Aerial Vision: Le Corbusier in Brazil (1929),” Journal of Architectural Education 55:4, May 2002. (Nominated for the best article of 2002)
* “A Tale of Two Symbols,” Thresholds 23 (2001), MIT Architecture Journal
* “The Body of the ‘New Man’,” Thresholds 22 (2001), MIT Architecture Journal
* “Le Corbusier and the Aerial Gaze,” Thresholds 13 (1997), MIT Architecture Journal
Design awards
* Honorable Mention, International Design Competition for the Reconstruction of the Souks of Beirut, Boston Society of Architects (BSA), 1994
* Winner, Liberation Memorial, Gazipur University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1992
* Best B.Arch. Thesis Project Award, the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1991.
* Honorable Mention, International Design Competition for a Seaside Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), UK, 1989

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