Kashef Chowdhury co-founded the Dhaka-based firm URBANA in 1995, leading the practice as principal since 2005. The practice’s projects address Bangladesh’s watery landscape: as Niklaus Graber wrote in the AR in 2019, ‘Chowdhury has developed an architecture which leaves room for water, but offers protection against it too.’ Recent projects include the Kuakata cyclone shelter and Friendship Hospital, for which URBANA won the AR Emerging awards in 2012.
