S M Kaikobad

S M Kaikobad is an interdisciplinary architect and educator currently teaching as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University. He owns his own practice and works as a principal at Shoho Sthapon Design Studio (https://www.instagram.com/shoho.sthapon/). His inquiry explores urban place-making, social justice, and civic design through neo-contextual resilient urbanism that contours human behavior. He is continuing his research on contextual design and functional adaptability in the transcending-built environment, informal urbanism and social inclusion for spatial justice, the symbiotic relationship between urban built form and community in the dense build environment, anthropogenic hazards on heritage buildings and conservative resiliency, and cultural programming of memory space through informal aesthetic and interactive material. Kaikobad believes architecture is a holistic tool to alter the dynamic built environment with positivity, where buildings are not individual entities but an essential part of the speculative progression of time, culture and memory. Driven by this belief, his academic and professional projects reflect context-oriented experiential space-making with an understanding of design as a non-linear process of a collaborative approach to respond to contemporary needs. Kaikobad served as member secretary in the seminar committee of Arcasia Forum 20 in 2019. He has attended multiple international conferences in the relevant fields and currently working on different design and research projects with a vision of an equal and sharing society. The harmonious balance between teaching, professional practice, and research reflects his excellency in handling multiple tasks concurrently creating a synthesis between academia and practice.