Imran Bin TAJUDEEN (Dr)

Dr Imran bin Tajudeen researches cultural encounters through architecture across the longue durée and examines the vernacular city and its heritage tropes. His doctoral dissertation on this topic (NUS, 2009) won the ICAS Book Prize in 2011. He is co-editor of Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture (2018) and was postdoctoral fellow at MIT's Aga Khan Program (2009–10) and the IIAS in Leiden (2010–11). He was also Mutawa Visiting Fellow at OXCIS (Oxford, 2019-2020; 2022). Dr Imran teaches topics on identity and representation through the arts, urban history, and built cultural heritage in maritime Southeast Asia, focusing on Singapore and maritime Southeast Asia. He has published on Southeast Asia’s mosques in transregional and vernacular-Indic translations and is currently working on a monograph on this subject.