Bashir Kazimee

Background

About Bashir Kazimee

Areas of expertise: • Sustainable development • Affordable housing • Architecture and Culture Bashir A. Kazimee is an award-winning professor of architecture at Washington State University. He has earned his degrees from MIT and Kabul University. His area of research is the traditional built environment and sustainable community development. He has contributed more than seventy national and international publications on these subjects. He has authored four books and his latest book: Sustainable Urban Form: Theory Design and Application, First Edition, by Cognella Academic Publishing Inc, California, December 2015. Kazimee, gained an international reputation in the field of sustainability with his collaborative proposed plan for the city of Pullman, Washington, which was awarded one of the three IAA/UN Gold Medals given internationally at the UN City Summit – Habitat-II conference in Istanbul, Turkey 1996. He is a licensed architect in USA and an active member of the American Institute of Architects. He is currently contributing as a consultant senior architect on several ongoing reconstruction architectural and urban design projects for his native home country Afghanistan”.