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About Founder
Ishita Mouri Rahman
Proprietor & Architect
Ishita Mouri Rahman is an architect and interdisciplinary designer whose work explores the relationship between people, place, culture, and the environment.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from BRAC University, Bangladesh, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York. She also holds a graduate diploma in Planning and Management of Urban Green Space from Finland.
Her multidisciplinary background bridges architecture, sustainability, environmental policy, and landscape, informing an approach to design that considers both spaces and the larger systems that shape them.
Her interests include climate-responsive architecture, vernacular knowledge, sustainable tourism, resilient environments, and culturally rooted design. Through her work, she seeks to create thoughtful and distinctive spaces that respond to their environmental, cultural, and social context.
About nLight Design
Architecture that begins with light.
nLight Design is an architecture and design practice working from Dhaka across workplace interiors, public parks, community buildings and hospitality — from the first sketch through to the craftsmen on site.
- Founded
- April 2018
- Based in
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Disciplines
- Interiors, architecture, landscape, hospitality
- Practice
- Design through to construction supervision
Founded in April 2018, nLight Design is an interdisciplinary design practice specializing in interior design for corporate and hospitality spaces, while also working across architecture, master planning, and environmentally responsive development.
A key focus of the practice is the design of spaces for children, including parks, play environments, and recreational spaces. The studio also undertakes master planning and design for parks, theme parks, eco-resorts, and hospitality developments.
nLight Design follows a research-based approach to design, placing climate, sustainability, and contextual understanding at the core of its work. By integrating environmental, cultural, and functional considerations, the practice seeks to create thoughtful and distinctive spaces that respond meaningfully to people and place.
- Interiors
- Corporate and hospitality spaces
- Spaces for children
- Parks, play environments and recreational spaces
- Master planning
- Parks, theme parks, eco-resorts and hospitality developments
- Architecture
- Environmentally responsive development
Our team
The roles behind every nLight Design project, from first research through to site supervision.
Specialist Consultants & Partners
For projects requiring additional expertise, nLight Design collaborates with a carefully selected network of specialist consultants, contractors, fabricators, and partner firms.