Bashir A. Kazimee is an award-winning Professor of Architecture at Washington State University.  He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and holds Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies from MIT and Bachelor of Architecture from Kabul University.  He has widely published in the areas of traditional settlements and sustainable community development and contributed more than sixty national and international publications on these subjects. His new book “Sustainable Urban Form: Theory, Strategy and Application,” is under contract with Cognella Press, to be released in the Fall 2014. He authored and edited two other books, “Heritage and Sustainability in the Islamic Built Environment,” WIT-Press, UK, 2012, and “Place, Meaning and Form in the Architecture and Urban Structure of Eastern Islamic Cities”  (with Rahmani)  Edwin Mellen Press, USA, 2003.
 

Professor 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 Golden Medals given internationally at the UN City Summit, the Habitat-II conference in Istanbul, Turkey 1996. The proposal aims for a number of strategies for the community to become sustainable, from the regional level, to city, to district and to individual dwelling designs.

He has been named as a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Design with Nature & Ecodynamics, and guest edited the special issue of the journal on “Vision for Sustainable Urbanism,” WIT-Press, Fall 2013. The journal is published quarterly by the Wessex Institute of Technology in the UK.  Kazimee, has been serving on the international editorial board for a series of international conferences on sustainable cities for the last ten years held in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Estonia, and Dubai.  These conferences are sponsored by Wessex Institute of Technology and Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR).

Professor Kazimee, is a licensed architect in the USA, an active member of the American Institute of Architects and the Society of Afghan Engineers. He has practiced and taught architecture in several countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA. He is currently contributing as a consultant senior architect with Studio Zarnegar Architecture & Planning in Kabul and Yost Grube Hall Architects, Portland, Oregon on several ongoing reconstruction architectural and urban design projects for his native home country, Afghanistan.