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
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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
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Title: Rice Husking Mill
Description: Indigenous mud projects
City: Sachadina Village (Mirpur Sakro, Sindh)
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Title: Army Mud Barracks, Prototype and 60-man barracks
Description: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro
City: Bahawalpur
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Title: Pakistan Cables Ltd Office
City: Karachi
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Title: Mud School for Sind
Description: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro
City: Ibrahim Haideri Village, Karachi
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Title: Salvation Army
City: Hyderabad
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Title: Keenjhar Lake Tourist Resort
City: Keenjhar
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Title: All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA) Women's Complex
City: Karachi
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Title: Indus Chemicals Ltd (Sind Alkals Ltd)Factory and Offices
City: Karachi
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Title: Khyber Insurance Company, Ltd
Description: Interior Design
City: Kararchi
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Title: Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) Secretariat
Description: restoration and conservation
City: Rawalpindi
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Title: National Development Finance Corporation (NDFC), NSC Building
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Al-Shafa Eye Hospital
City: Rawalpindi
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Title: The President's Office, CMLA Secretariat
Description: Interior Design
City: Rawalpinidi
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Title: State Guest House
Description: restoration and conservation
City: Karachi
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Title: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Housing for Civil Servents
City: Islamabad
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Title: Shopping Mall
City: Jhelum
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Title: Design and Development Building
City: Labore
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Title: Federal Light Engineering Corporation
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Lyallpur Township
City: Lyallpur (Faisalabad)
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Title: Smith, Kline, and French Factory
City: Karachi
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Title: Armoured Corps mess
City: Nowshera
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Title: Nurses Hostel, Lady Dufferin Hospital
City: Karachi
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Title: Army VIP House
City: Karachi
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Title: Gulistan Colony Housing Project, POF
City: Wah
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Title: State Guest House
Description: Interior Design
City: Rawalpindi
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Title: The Presidency
Description: Interior Design
City: Rawalpindi
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Title: Pakistan Automobile Corporation Offices (PACO)
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Karchi Pipe Mills Ltd, PIDC House
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Gerneral Post Office
Description: Extension
City: Lahore
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Title: Taj Mahal Hotel and Conference Center
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Title: Pakistan State Oil (PSO)
Description: Prayer Hall
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Title: Allied Textile Mills Ltd Staff Quarters
City: Larkana
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Title: First National City Bank
Description: Interior Design
City: Lahore
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Title: State Guest House
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Baluch Mess
City: Abbotabad
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Title: Angoori Bagh Housing
City: Lahre
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Title: Board of Industrial Management Offices
Description: Interior Design
City: Karachi
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Title: Hotel Bilz
Description: Redesign and Extension
City: Multan
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Title: Khyber Textile Mills Ltd
City: Baldher
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Title: Finance and Trade Center (FTC)
City: Karachi
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Title: Pakistan State Oil
Description: Head Office
City: Karachi
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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
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Title: School and Women's Center
Description: Indigenous mud projects
City: Sachadino Village, Mirpur Sakro, Sindh
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Title: Army Corps Commander House
City: Karachi
Country: delete
Title: Signal Corps Mess
City: Rawalpindi
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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
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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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