ABSTRACT
Mr. Shahed Saleem began working after training first in architecture and then archaeology. He studied architecture in Kingston University in southwest London. "The thing with London architecture schools is that they are different from schools outside". In other words, it's taught as a cultural subject more than a technical, skill-based subject. So when he was at Kingston he looked at issues of postcolonial identities and social relationships to architecture. Mr. Saleem decided that his experiences needed more context, so he pursued a degree in a different academic discipline: he then got an MA in Anthropology and Development Studies at SOAS, which involved two years of coursework. He focused on the processes through which social groups are made and formed. In fact, his educational and work background has been, "an exploration of contemporary identity within built contexts and what that might be and how it might manifest through architecture, which for him is multilayered and fluid".
