Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows

Founder of FAME, Director of Our Building Design

Senior Lecturer of Architecture at the University of Westminster and Trustee of Mannan Foundation Trust

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows is an award-winning British architect. Co-founded the interdisciplinary practice Our Building Design, the charity Mannan Foundation Trust & the two organisations that promote and support architects from the ethnic minority in the UK: FAME collective and Asian Architects Association.

She is a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the University of Westminster where her teaching draws on her research methodologies on interdisciplinary approach to design. Her practice-based research focuses on community participatory methods on architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices, in the UK and in Bangladesh.

She was awarded the RIBA-J Rising Star Award in 2017, (a commendation) for the RIBA President’s Award for Research in 2019. For her architectural work she has received the SEED / Pacific Rim Community Design Network Award 2018 and Architecture Sans Frontieres Award 2017 (commendation) .

Tumpa has been appointed to be on the Design Review Panel for the Southwark Council Planning Department, which is an advisory role in June 2019.

Latest contributions

Time to level the playing field, say female architects

Diverse Leaders

18 March 2021

Time to level the playing field, say female architects

A group of female architects got together last week to share their experiences and expose the barriers that are preventing more women of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities from progressing in the bui...

FAME collective present: pathways to success in the built environment

Diverse Leaders

11 March 2021

FAME collective present: pathways to success in the built environment

This FAME collective event, hosted by NLA, explores the diverse pathways that ethnic minority women have navigated to become successful built environment professionals.

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