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SERPENTINE PAVILION 2025 A CAPSULE IN TIME: Marina Tabassum Architects

To accompany the Serpentine Pavilion 2025 A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects, Serpentine has co-published a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig, Köln.

Designed by Wolfe Hall, it brings together new and insightful contributions from the fields of architecture and art to reflect on Tabassum’s Pavilion and wider practice. Generously illustrated in colour throughout, it features essays by editor and curator Shumon Basar; architect, educator and Dean of Yale School of Architecture Deborah Berke; art and architecture historian Perween Hasan; architect, writer and critic Thomas de Monchaux; and experimental visual contributions from artists Rana Begum and Naeem Mohaiemen. 

Alongside these contributions, it features drawings from Tabassum’s sketchbook whilst designing the Pavilion; a photo essay by Iwan Baan; a conversation with David Chipperfield; and an in-depth interview with Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

£28 

Published by: Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig, Köln

Edited by: Chris Bayley

Contributors: Iwan Baan, Shumon Basar, Rana Begum, Deborah Berke, David Chipperfield, Perween Hasan, Naeem Mohaiemen, Thomas de Monchaux, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Marina Tabassum

Designer: Wolfe Hall

Print: robstolk®, Netherlands

Pages: 184

Dimensions: 24 x 16.5 cm 

Publication Date: July 2025

ISBN: 978-1-908617-89-7 (Serpentine);
ISBN 978-3-7533-0851-7 (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln)

 

Marina Tabassum

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Marina Tabassum (b. 1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an acclaimed architect and educator who has received numerous international recognitions for her contributions in the field of architecture. She graduated in 1995 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Prior to founding Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) in 2005, Tabassum was a founding partner of the Dhaka-based firm URBANA between 1995 and 2005 with Kashef Chowdhury. In 1997, URBANA won the national competition to design the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence under the Public Works Department and the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs. Tabassum’s practice remains consciously contained in size — prioritising climate, context, culture and history — undertaking a limited number of projects per year.

Tabassum is a Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She held the Norman Foster Chair at Yale University in 2023 and has taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities, including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA; the University of Toronto, Canada; and BRAC University, Bangladesh. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and served as academic director at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements between 2015 and 2021.

Tabassum’s pursuit for the ‘architecture of relevance’ has won her numerous awards including the Soane Medal from the United Kingdom; Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture; and the Jameel Prize from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016 for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque and has served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga KhanAwards for Architecture from 2017 to 2022 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). In 2024, Tabassum was included in TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’.

Tabassum chairs the Executive Board of Prokritee, a fair-trade organisation that promotes crafts and provides livelihood to thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh. She is the founding chairperson of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (F.A.C.E), a non-for-profit organisation that focuses on climate adaption and architecture’s agency and responsibility in providing dignified living conditions for marginalised populations. F.A.C.E is currently working with communities to build mobile modular housing (known as Khudi Bari) in various geographically and climatically challenged locations in Bangladesh.

Tabassum’s work is currently the subject of a travelling exhibition organised by Architektur Museum der TUM, Munich, showing in Lisbon and Delft. She has previously presented work at Whitechapel Gallery, London (with Rana Begum, 2019); Sharjah Architecture Triennale (2019); and Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Her work has been published by ArchiTangle; Harvard Graduate School of Design; ORO Editions; and Lars Müller Publishers among others.

 

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