Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment?

Adnan Zillur Morshed is an architect, architectural historian, urban theorist, and professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America. He is the Founder-Director of the Centre for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism (Ci+AU) at BRAC University, a Fulbright Specialist (2021-2025), and a TEDx speaker. His publications and research focus on global architectural history, spatial justice, histories of water and the built environment, ecological urbanism, and urban poverty. Morshed is the author of multiple books, including Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder (University Minnesota Press, 2015), DAC: Dhaka in Twenty-Five Buildings (Altrim Publishers, 2017), and Dhaka Delirium (Altrim Publishers, 2023), has held fellowships at the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and was featured in the documentary Louis Kahn's Tiger City.