Eleena Jamil

ELEENA JAMIL trained at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. After a short working stint, she joined the architecture faculty at Cardiff as a teaching assistant while completing her MPhil and Ph.D. postgraduate research. Eleena set up her eponymous architectural practice in Kuala Lumpur in 2005 and it has since been growing steadily with an expanding portfolio of work. Working within the context of South-east Asia and beyond, her work has been founded on research into specific social and climatic imperatives of each brief within a broader cultural framework. Projects developed within her practice have been widely published in the international press and have been shortlisted for awards. In 2018, Eleena Jamil Architect was shortlisted for Dezeen’s Architect of the Year Award.