Biography

Zenat Islam is the Acting Head of the Department of Architecture, World University of Bangladesh. She is an academician, researcher and practicing architect of Bangladesh. She obtained her Bachelor of Architecture from Khulna University and Masters in Disaster Management from the Faculty of Environment and Geography at The University of Dhaka. Besides teaching and research, she is working with several housing projects.

Her research interest focusses on Sustainable Architecture, Building Regulations, Disaster and Resilience in Architecture, Climate change, Urban and Rural Housing and Gender Equality. She has a range of national and international publications on Sustainable Urban Regeneration, Disaster Risk for inaptness of Building Laws, Water Logging, Gender Dimensions on Disaster, Urban Informality, Sustainable Building Materials on Changing Climate, and Sense of belongingness in Urban Housing.

She has conducted many workshop & trainings on faculty development program. She has presented her B.Arch thesis project at the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA) Council and Conference 2013 in the heritage panel as well as presented her research paper at various international conferences. She has awarded “Best Paper Award” at 7th International Urban Design Conference (ICCPP) Colombo- Sri Lanka in 2019. In 2013 she also achieved Best “Art Director Award” at Robi Short Film Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She worked as a program presenter at Bangladesh Betar.

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