Professor Emeritus
School of Design and Construction
Washington State University
bkazimee@wsu.edu
Bashir A. Kazimee is an accomplished Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Washington State University. Native of Afghanistan, he is renowned for his expertise internationally on sustainable community development and traditional settlements. He is a licensed architect and distinguished member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He holds a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies degree from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and a Bachelor of Architecture from Kabul University.
With over seventy national and international publications to his name, Kazimee has made significant contributions to the field of architecture and urban design. His later book, “Sustainable Urban Form: Theory, Strategy and Application,” is published by Cognella Press in the Fall of 2014. He has also authored and edited two other noteworthy books: “Heritage and Sustainability in the Islamic Built Environment” (2012)published byWIT-Press in the UK, and “Place, Meaning and Form in the Architecture and Urban Structure of Eastern Islamic Cities” (2003)co-authored with Ayad Rahmani, published by Edwin Mellen Press in the USA.
Kazimee gained international acclaim for his collaborative proposed plan for the city of Pullman, earning one of the three UN/IAA Gold Medals at the UN City Summit, Habitat-II conference in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996. The plan outlines strategies for sustainability at the regional, city, district, and individual dwelling levels.
As a respected figure in the field of sustainability, Kazimee serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Ecodynamics, focusing on sustainable development. This quarterly journal is published by the Wessex Institute of Technology in the UK. Additionally, he has been a member of the international editorial board for a series of conferences on Sustainable Cities held in various countries, sponsored by the Wessex Institute of Technology, Associated Colligate Schools of Architecture ACSA, and the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR).
Kazimee has both practiced and taught architecture in the United States, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Presently, he serves as the chair of the Division of Architecture and Urban Design at the Society of Afghan Engineers (SAE), based in the USA. Additionally, Kazimee contributes as a senior consultant architect with Studio Zarnegar Architecture & Planning in Kabul, Yost Grube Hall Architects in Portland, Oregon, and is actively involved on the ongoing reconstruction architectural and urban design projects in his native country Afghanistan.