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Soane Medal 2021: Marina Tabassum
17 Nov 2021
Soane Medal 2021 Winner: Marina Tabassum
Tuesday 16 November 2021
Marina Tabassum, Architect Of The Dispossessed, Wins Soane Medal
Marina Tabassum in The Sir John Soane?s Museum, London, England:

photo : Barry MacDonald
The 2021 Soane Medal Lecture was streamed live direct from Sir John Soane?s Museum, London.
Marina Tabassum, the distinguished Bangladeshi architect, was awarded on Tuesday 16 November 2021, the 2021 Soane Medal, which is presented annually by Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Receiving the Award at a ceremony celebrating her career, Marina Tabassum gave the fourth Soane Medal Lecture before an invited audience in the Museum and a global audience through a live digital event Resilient Landscape, Rohingya Refugee Camps, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar District, Chittagong, Bangladesh:

photo : WFP
Marina Tabassum said: ?I am honoured to have been chosen to receive this recognition from such a distinguished institution as the Soane Museum. Winning the Soane Medal means a great deal to me.  My current work is focused on the twin crises of Bangladesh: the plight of refugees, and the heightened threat to our population of flooding, exacerbated by global warming. Both factors have led me to focus on prototyping low impact, mobile housing which can be delivered at the lowest cost possible for those i...