Kazi Khalid Ashraf is a Bangladeshi architect and architectural theorist. He is currently an associate professor of architecture at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He completed his graduation from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, BUET, and post-graduation from MIT, and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

. After graduating from BUET, Ashraf worked for 2 years under Muzharul Islam. Kazi Ashraf is the co-founder of satirical magazine Unmad

Unmad

"UNmad" is a Bangladeshi humor magazine, which was founded by Ishtiaq Hossain and Kazi Khalid Ashraf in 1978. "UNmad" is a Bengali word, which means 'paranoid', or, 'mad'...

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Publications

He is the author of the following publications:

• Louis Kahn: National Capital of Bangladesh (GA Edita Publications, Tokyo, 1994);
• Pundranagar to Sherebanglanagar: Architecture in Bangladesh, with Saif ul Haque and Raziul Ahsan (Chetana, Dhaka, 1997);
• An Architecture of Independence: The Making of Modern South Asia, with James Belluardo (Architectural League of New York, New York, 1997);
• Sherebanglanagar: Louis Kahn and the Making of a Capital Complex, with Saif Ul Haque (LOKA Publications, Dhaka, 2002); *
• “Made in India,” special issue on contemporary architecture in India, Architectural Design, December, 2007.
• The Hermit's Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India is forthcoming from the University of Hawaii Press (Fall 2012).

Awards

The Architectural Design issue won the Pierre Vago Journalism Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics, CICA, in 2008.