This publication accompanies the Serpentine Pavilion 2025, with a more comprehensive look at Marina Tabassums wider practice. Tabassum (b. 1968 in Dhaka, Bangladesh) won the Aga Khan Award for Architecturefor the design of Bait-ur-Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. She was the first South Asian to receive the “Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2022). She is Professor at Technical University Delft in the Netherlands.
The catalogue 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 visual, experimental contributions from artists Rana Begum and Naeem Mohaiemen. Alongside these contributions, it features drawings from Tabassums sketchbook, a photo essay by Iwan Baan, a conversation with David Chipperfield. and an in-depth interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
