Khondaker Hasibul Kabir
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| Alma mater | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
Khondaker Hasibul Kabir is a Bangladeshi landscape architect and sustainability advocate who works with Bangladeshi development agencies such as BRAC and Grameen in rural and sustainable architecture. He first proposed "The Platform of Hope" (Ashar Macha) in 2007 when he moved personally in with family in the slums and designed a community space. It was showcased in the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. He also worked with German Architect Anna Heringer on the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh which received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007.[citation needed]
Kabir graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2000 from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and later attended the University of Sheffield in the U.K. where he was awarded a Master of Architecture degree in 2005, where he researched "Homestead plant-communities in the floodplains of Bangladesh for their potential uses in landscape". He also attended the Lund University in Sweden and also Costa Rica for "Small scale organized self-help housing" in 2003. He joined BRAC University in 2005 as a lecturer of Architecture.[1]
