Adnan Morshed is an architect, architectural historian, urbanist, and scholar. He received his Ph.D. from the Architecture and Planning program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, he has been awarded highly competitive international fellowships and grants, among others, the Wyeth Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in the USA; the Verville Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution; Graham Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant; and MIT’s biennial Lawrence B. Anderson Award. He has lectured around the world on the theory and history of modern architecture and urbanism, urban ecology and sustainable urban planning, environment and gender justice, history of technology, and a host of topics that examine the crucial intersection between ecology and human development.