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World Habitat Women's Centre Pono Colony; Mirpur Khas, Pakistan

World Habitat Women's Centre Pono Colony; Mirpur Khas, Pakistan

University of Glasgow - Centre of Sustainability Solutions

Centre of Sustainsbility Solutions has published Yasmeen Lari’s Zero Carbon Women Centre in  Khairpur built entirely with bamboo as an example of sustainable construction.  The piece is being permanently displayed in its long term home in Spotlight Archive at Centre of  Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK.

Suhail Zaheer Lari Memorial Fellowship Fund

In memory of Suhail Zaheer Lari, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Lari Family has established the Suhail Zaheer Lari Memorial Fellowship Fund to support scholars to conduct research on Sindh, through AIPS Fellowships and Short-Term Research Grants.

Ar. Yasmeen Lari to speak in the Build Porto Conference being held in Portugal

Architect Yasmeen Lari is scheduled to speak in the conference titled “Build from High Tech to Low” to be held in  Portugal in the first week of February. 

EMPOWERISTAN - Pakistan’s Climate-Smart, Women-Centered Empowerment

Exciting series of events have been planned to be organised in UK by Heritage Foundation in collaboration with British Council,  INTBAU Pakistan and INTBAU UK to showcase Pakistan and strength of its women through zero carbon structures of LOG (Lari OctaGrenn) and Pakistan Chulah designed by Architect Yasmeen Lari. The celebrations will be held from 21-25th March in Granary Square, King's Cross London around the LOG to be built by 2 female architects who have been provided scholarship for travel and stay in UK, and Pakistan Chulah to be built by rural female artisans from Mirpur Khas including the Chulah icon  Champa."

Laying of Terracotta pavement at Murad Khan side section of Denso Hall Rahguzar

This pavement and clearing of the Murad Khan Road is a result of collaboration between local shopkeepers and Heritage Foundation as well as ongoing support from D.C. South. The terracotta paving is bring laid by HF while the portion of stone pavement is being financed by shopkeepers - the first instance of investment by shopkeepers into upgrading of their environment which shows a sense of ownership and pride in the street.

INTBAU Event Coverage in ArchiTimes - Janauary 2020

A certificate distribution ceremony was held at Zero Carbon Street, Denso Hall Rahguzar, Marriot Road Karachi, where female students of architecture, participated in training and construction of Lari's OctaGreen (LOG) bamboo shelter were acknowledged for their efforts and successful training.

Yasmeen Lari’s Anguri Bagh social housing project built in the early 1970s is being displayed in the exhibition organized by Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York

Yasmeen Lari’s Anguri Bagh social housing project built in the early 1970s is being displayed in the exhibition organized by Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York with the titled ”The Project of Independence.” The link for the exhibition is: The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1987.

The news was shared by Y. L. Lucy Wang, Fellow Department of Architecture and Design at MOMA. Inviting Architect Yasmeen Lari to the opening of the exhibition on 15^th February 2022, Ms. Wang said “we would be honored to have you join us for the event… and we would be delighted to celebrate this momentous occasion with you.”

The exhibition leaflet informs: “it is an exhibition that will explore the ways modern architecture in the region gave shape and expression to idealistic societal visions and emancipatory politics of the post-independence period. On view from February 20, 2022, through July 2, 2022, this exhibition will comprise over 200 works, including original sketches, drawings, photographs, films, audiovisual components, and architectural models, sourced primarily from prominent lenders and institutions in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The featured projects—by key figures such as Balkrishna V. Doshi (India), the only South Asian winner of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture; Minnette de Silva, the first woman to become a licensed architect in Sri Lanka; and Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to qualify as architect in Pakistan, to name a few—will address how architecture mediated the process of decolonization and modernization for these emerging nation-states.”

Presentation by Delegation of University of Lahore at the INTBAU Event

Presentation by Delegation of University of Lahore at the INTBAU Event 

Presentation by Delegation of NED University at the INTBAU Event

Presentation by Delegation of NED University at the INTBAU Event