Fawaz Rob has been working as a ‘rural architect’ for over a decade, exploring low-cost housing, sanitation, and sustainable architecture of rural Bangladesh. His firm Bangla Bari Ltd has built clinics, schools, houses with earth blocks, and more than five hundred latrines all across rural Bangladesh. As an assistant professor of architecture at North South University for ten years, Fawaz was trained in Auroville Earth Institute (India), Craterre (France), IBOKU (Indonesia), and Laurie Baker Institute. He worked as a consultant for UNDP, GIZ, UNHCR, JICA, and JICS.