Yasmeen Lari


General Information


Occupation: Architect

Birth City: Dera Gazi Khan

Resident Country: Pakistan

Notes: First woman architect of Pakistan, 1963

Archive/Repository: IAWA, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Sources: http://www2.arch.uiuc.edu/organizations/wia/archtspotl/lariyasmeen.html


Specialties


Subject: Geographical Focus

Description: Karachi, Pakistan


Subject: Commercial


Subject: Residential


Subject: Institutional


Subject: Restoration and Conservation


Subject: Interiors


Subject: Indigenous Mud Projects


Jobs


Employer: Lari Associates, Architects and Urban Designers

Title: Principal

Country: delete


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: UNDP & UNCHS Expert Panel on Karachi Masterplan - Beyond 2000, Karachi

Description: Member


Name: Society for Preservation of Muslim Heritage

Description: Governor


Name: National Institute of Public Administration

Description: Member, Board of Governors


Name: MIT-Harvard Seminar

Description: Guest Faculty Member

Notes: Cambridge, MA


Name: UN Regional Conference for Economic Commission of Western Asia (ECWA), Amman, Jordan

Description: Guest speaker


Name: Three-person Pakistan Government Expert Team to Maldives comprising Artists Sadeqain and Gulgee


Name: Habitat Forum Self Help and Low Cost Housing Symposium

Description: Speaker

Notes: Vancouver, Canada


Name: Seven Visionary Architects of Asia by "Asiaweek" of Hong Kong

Description: Named one of seven

Date Received: September 03, 1982


Name: Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar at Karachi

Description: Chairman


Name: Planning Commission Working Group on Housing for Low Income Group

Description: Chairman


Name: UIA Congress

Description: speaker

Notes: Montreal, Canada


Name: MIT-Harvard seminar on Architecture in the Spirit of Islam

Description: Chairman, 2nd Session

Notes: Cambridge, MA


Name: Pakistan delegation to SARC Conference of Women

Description: Member

Notes: Islamabad


Name: Federal Advisory Council

Description: Only architect member of Majlis-i-Shoora

Notes: Until 1985


Name: Heritage Foundation

Description: Director


Name: Expert Group of Government of Pakistan on National Housing Policy

Description: member


Name: UN Habitat group on Land Sharing

Description: member

Notes: Bangkok, Thiland


Name: MIT-Harvard Seminar on Housing Design in Islamic Culture

Description: Chairman


Name: UNICEF and Government of Pakistan

Description: appointed to report on war-affected areas of Sialkot and Tharparkar


Name: WH/UNEP Working Group on Health Criteria for Urban and Indoor Environment Quality

Description: member

Notes: Moscow, USSR


Name: Conference of Intellectuals and Thinkers

Description: Only architect invitied to conference convened by the President of Pakistan at Islamabad


Name: Aga Khan Award Seminar on Places of Public Gathering in Islam at Amman, Jordan

Description: Keynote speaker


Name: UNICEF

Description: appointed to report on flood affected areas in Pakistan


Name: Selection - Board for Headquarters of League of Arab States

Description: Member

Notes: Tunisia


Name: Government of Pakistan

Description: appointed to report on housing for industrial workers


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


Title: General Post Office

Description: restoration and conservation

City: Lahore

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Title: Quaid-e-Azam House (Flagstaff House)

Description: restoration and conservation

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Rice Husking Mill

Description: Indigenous mud projects

City: Sachadina Village (Mirpur Sakro, Sindh)

Country: delete


Title: Army Mud Barracks, Prototype and 60-man barracks

Description: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro

City: Bahawalpur

Country: delete


Title: Pakistan Cables Ltd Office

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Mud School for Sind

Description: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro

City: Ibrahim Haideri Village, Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Salvation Army

City: Hyderabad

Country: delete


Title: Keenjhar Lake Tourist Resort

City: Keenjhar

Country: delete


Title: All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA) Women's Complex

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Indus Chemicals Ltd (Sind Alkals Ltd)Factory and Offices

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Khyber Insurance Company, Ltd

Description: Interior Design

City: Kararchi

Country: delete


Title: Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) Secretariat

Description: restoration and conservation

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Title: National Development Finance Corporation (NDFC), NSC Building

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Al-Shafa Eye Hospital

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Title: The President's Office, CMLA Secretariat

Description: Interior Design

City: Rawalpinidi

Country: delete


Title: State Guest House

Description: restoration and conservation

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Housing for Civil Servents

City: Islamabad

Country: delete


Title: Shopping Mall

City: Jhelum

Country: delete


Title: Design and Development Building

City: Labore

Country: delete


Title: Federal Light Engineering Corporation

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Lyallpur Township

City: Lyallpur (Faisalabad)

Country: delete


Title: Smith, Kline, and French Factory

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Armoured Corps mess

City: Nowshera

Country: delete


Title: Nurses Hostel, Lady Dufferin Hospital

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Army VIP House

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Gulistan Colony Housing Project, POF

City: Wah

Country: delete


Title: State Guest House

Description: Interior Design

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Title: The Presidency

Description: Interior Design

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Title: Pakistan Automobile Corporation Offices (PACO)

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Karchi Pipe Mills Ltd, PIDC House

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Gerneral Post Office

Description: Extension

City: Lahore

Country: delete


Title: Taj Mahal Hotel and Conference Center

Country: delete


Title: Pakistan State Oil (PSO)

Description: Prayer Hall

Country: delete


Title: Allied Textile Mills Ltd Staff Quarters

City: Larkana

Country: delete


Title: First National City Bank

Description: Interior Design

City: Lahore

Country: delete


Title: State Guest House

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Baluch Mess

City: Abbotabad

Country: delete


Title: Angoori Bagh Housing

City: Lahre

Country: delete


Title: Board of Industrial Management Offices

Description: Interior Design

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Hotel Bilz

Description: Redesign and Extension

City: Multan

Country: delete


Title: Khyber Textile Mills Ltd

City: Baldher

Country: delete


Title: Finance and Trade Center (FTC)

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Pakistan State Oil

Description: Head Office

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Lines Area Redevelopment Project

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Compressed National Gas (CNG) Station

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Army VIP House

City: Lahore

Country: delete


Title: School and Women's Center

Description: Indigenous mud projects

City: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro, Sindh

Country: delete


Title: Army Corps Commander House

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: Signal Corps Mess

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Title: Pakistan Naval Officers' Housing at PNs Diawar, Shifa and Karsaz

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: National Assembly Building

Description: Interior Design

City: Islamabad

Country: delete


Title: PAMIC Housing for Pakistan Steel Mills

City: Karachi

Country: delete


Title: State Guest House

Description: restoration and conservation

City: Rawalpindi

Country: delete


Education


Institution: College of Technology, Oxford

Degree: Part II RIBA


Institution: Polytechnic of North London

Degree: Part 1 RIBA


Institution: College of Technology, Oxford, UK

Degree: Part III RIBA and Diploma Architecture (Oxford)


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: Zhan and Co., Hameln, West Germany

Role: Architect


Organization: Royal Institute of British Architects, UK

Role: Associate


Organization: Academic Council, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi

Role: member


Organization: Architects Regional Council of Asia, Sri Lanka

Role: Deputy Chairman


Organization: MacDonald, Layton and Costain

Role: Chief Architect


Organization: Advisory Council, Ministry of Finance

Role: member


Organization: Pakistan National Committee of ICOMOS

Role: member


Organization: Slum Improvement, Karachi Development Authority

Role: Project coordinator


Organization: Advisory Committee on Population and Housing Census, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan

Role: member


Organization: First Asian Congress of Architects, Philippines

Role: member, Board of Advisors and Keynote speaker


Organization: Council of Architects and Planners of Islamic Countries

Role: coordinator


Organization: Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners

Role: First Chairman


Organization: Karachi Aesthetic Control Committee, Government of Sind

Role: member


Organization: Institute of Architects, Pakistan

Role: President


Organization: Institute of Architects, Pakistan


Publications By


Title: Slums are not a Lost Cause

Publication: Pakistan Economist


Title: Recreational and Tourist Complexes in the World of Islam

City: Amman

Country: Jordan

Notes: Presented at Aga Khan Award Seminar


Title: Low Income Housing

Notes: Contribution on Housing as member of the Pakistan Delegation to the SAARC Seminar, Islamabad


Title: Architecture in Pakistan

Co-author: K.K. Mumtaz

Publisher: Concept Media Pte Ltd.

City: Singapore


Title: Challenges of Transformation; Built Environment in Islamic Countries

Publication: PCATP


Title: Architecture and Politics, and the Politics of Architecture

Publication: Architecture

City: Montreal

Notes: Presented at the XVIIth World Congress of the International Union of Architects: Cultures and Technologies


Title: Lines Area Re-Settlement Project

City: Boston

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Notes: Presented at the seminar on Housing Design in Islamic Cultures at MIT


Title: Identity and Heritage

Notes: Presented at All Pakistan Science Conference, Bahawalpur


Title: the Lines Area Project: A Concept in Land Sharing

City: Bangkok

Country: Thailand

Notes: Presented at the United Nations Group on Land Sharing Conference


Title: Document No. 1 Zaibunnisa Street, National Register of Historic Buildings

Publication: Heritage Foundation


Title: Tharparkar and Sialkt after the War

Notes: Report Commisssioned by UNICEF and Government of Pakistan


Title: Architecture and Community; Building in the Islamic World Today

Publication: Aperture

City: New York


Title: Professional Practice and Education of Architects in Pakistan

City: Hong Kong

Notes: Presented at the Conference on Development and Design of South and Southeast Asia, organized by the University of Hong Kong


Title: The Dual City: Karachi During the Raj


Title: Housing - A Personal View

City: Amman

Notes: Presented at the UN Regional Conference for the Economic Commission of Western Asia


Title: Chat aur Chardiwari

Notes: Report on Housing for Prime Ministers Five Point Programme


Title: Slums and Squatter Settlemets - Their Role and Improvement Strategy

Notes: Presented at RCD Seminar on Urban Development and Housing, Islamabad


Title: Expanding Role of Architect in Asian Context

Notes: Presented at the First Asian Congress of Architects held at Manila, Philippines


Title: Women in Development

Notes: Presented to conference of women from Pakistan and BAngladesh


Title: Our Heritage in Muslim Architecture

Notes: Presented at the Second National Seminar on Muslim Architecture, Islamabad


Title: Traditional Architecture of Thatta

Publication: Heritage Foundation


Title: Designing a Zoo

Notes: Presented at All Pakistan Science Conference, Karachi


Title: Architecture in West Pakistan, Islamabad

Notes: Presented at the third Seminar on Muslim Architecture, Dhaka


Title: Thatta

Publisher: Goethe Institute

City: Karachi


Title: Thatta: The Beginning of a Case Study

Notes: Presented at the seminar on Architecture and Archaeology and History of Moenjodaro


Title: Housing for Industrial Workers

Notes: Report commissioned by Federal Ministry of Labour


Title: Architeckten der Dritten Welt (Architects of the Third World)

Co-author: Prof. Udo Kuturmann

Publisher: DuMont Buchverlag

City: Cologne


Title: Architettura nei paesi islamici

Publisher: La Biennale di Venezia

City: Venice


Title: Some Thoughts on House Design

Notes: Presented at Karachi Artists Gallery, Karachi


Publication: Mimar, Architecture Review, Inside Outside, Arts and The Islamic World, Asiaweek

Notes: Various international magazines


Publications About


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