Labib Hossain

Courses Taught (past two academic years)

ARC 221/221H/621 History of Architecture I
ARC 222/222H/622 History of Architecture II
ARC 636 Design and Research Methodstics

Top 5 Areas of Expertise

Architectural History, Architectural theory, Critical and Postcolonial Theory, Urban History, Landscape and Environmental Studies

Educational Credentials

• Ph.D. in Architecture, Cornell University, 2024
• Master of Science in Architecture (M.S.), University of Pennsylvania, 2017
• Master of Architecture (M.Arch), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2015
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2012

Teaching Experience

• Assistant Professor, Miami University, 2024-present
• Course Instructor, Cornell University, 2023, 2021
• Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, 2022-2023
• Lecturer, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2012-2015

Professional Experience/Licenses/Registrations

• Associate Member, Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB), 2014

Significant Publications/Creative Projects/Paper Presentations

Book Chapters

• "Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh)" in Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett, eds., Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial, (New York: Routledge, 2022): 190-215.
• "A Critical Reading of Dry and Permanent Grounds Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving" in Lindsay Bremner, ed., Monsoon Assemblages: Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds, (London: University of Westminster, 2020): 113-120.

Journal Papers

• "Unlearning Colonial Dryness in Dhaka" in Thaisa Way and David Karmon, ed., “Rethinking the Urban Landscape,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 81.3, (September 2022): 278-282.
• "পানির আধুনিকায়ন: ঔপনিবেশিক দৃষ্টিভঙ্গির ধারাবাহিকতায় বন্যা ও শহর ভাবনার সংকট", [“Modern Water: Colonial legacy in flood and city-thinking”], Sorbojonkotha 7, no. 1 (Nov. 2020–Jan. 2021).

Conference Publications

• "‘Filling’ & ‘Enactment’: Drainage and Conservancy Schemes: Discourse of Contained Waters in Dacca, Colonial East Bengal" in Staying with Modernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and Architecture Conference Proceedings, (Rotterdam: Jaap Bakema Study Centre, November 2024)

Newspaper Articles

• "Decolonizing the Cities to Address Flood, Rain and Water", The Daily Star, in Focus, August 17, 2020.

Awards/Recognitions/Grants/Competitions

• Mario Einaudi Dissertation Research Grant, Cornell University, Spring 2021, 2023
• Michele Sicca Research Grant, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, Spring 2021
• Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, College of Art, Architecture and Planning, 2017-2021
• Graduate Research Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2020
• South Asia Program Research Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2018
• Mellon Urbanism Fellowship, Cornell University, 2018

Professional Memberships and Service

• Graduate Representative, Society of Architecture and Urban Historian Asia (SAUH Asia), 2020-21

Professional Development

• Organizing committee member and a panel moderator for the virtual symposium - Writing the History of the Built Environments of Asia: Materiality, Translations and Colonialism, organized by Cornell History of Architecture and Urbanism Society (HAUS), April 21-22, 2022
• Organizing committee member and a panel moderator for the online symposium - Decolonizing Heritage Exhibition: Architectural Heritage, Craft and the Cultural Landscape of South Asia, organized by Society of Architectural and Urban Historians Asia (SAUS-Asia) and Heritage Bangladesh Foundation, August 29, 2020