Yasmeen Lari is a pioneering Pakistani female architect born in 1941 in Dera Ghazi Khan. She graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 1963 and was the first female architect in Pakistan. Throughout her career, she has advocated for sustainable and culturally sensitive architecture. Notable projects include Naval Officers Housing in Karachi and bamboo shelters she designed after the 2005 earthquake. Lari has received several prestigious awards for her contributions to architecture and heritage conservation in Pakistan.

1. Yasmeen Lari
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2. Yasmeen Lari is a Pakistani first female architect. She is born in “Dera
Ghazi Khan” in 1941 and spent early years in and around Lahore. She is
has build her wide and shelter carrier in Pakistan. She is graduated from
school of architecture,oxford brooks university U.K. in 1963 and was
elected Member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1969. She
is wrote many book like, The dual city: Karachi during raj and Governor
house Lahore. She has a co-founder and CEO, of Heritage Foundation of
Pakistan. In 2005 earthquake Yasmen Lari came up with bamboo shelter
system which is cheap to build. She build 2000 sustainable shelter unit
which she hopes will help promote and propagate green design in
Pakistan

3. “Archetecture is like a God you create things ,As a result , your ego is
inflated”

4.  In 2016, she received the ”Fukuoka Prize” for Arts & Culture.
 In 2011, she received the Pakistani "1st Wonder Women of the Year
Award“
 In 2006, Lari was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, one of the highest civil
awards by the Government of Pakistan, in recognition of her services to
the architectural profession and to heritage conservation of historical
sites in Pakistan.

5.  Yasmeen Lari lives in Karachi, Pakistan with her husband, Suhail Lari. She
has three children and a grandchild.

6. On architectural practice in Southeast Asia, Lari has said, "The two ends of the
spectrum of the two worlds we live and work in are best captured in the
words of two famous architects, Mies van der Rohe and Hassan Fathy. Mies
van der Rohe, a master of putting the elements of a building together and the
grand master of detail, has said: "I am first interested in a good building. Then
I place it in the best possible spot.' In contrast Hassan Fathy, who has spoken
more forcefully than any other on the beatify of the vernacular and the
importance of tradition, states: 'You must start from the beginning, letting
your new buildings grown from the daily lives of the people who will live in
them, shaping the houses to the measure of people's songs, weaving the
pattern of a village as if on the village looms, mindful of the trees and the
crafts that grow there, respectful of the skylines and humble before the
seasons

7.  After graduating from the ”Oxford School of Architecture” in 1964, Lari
returned to Pakistan at 23 with her husband, Suhail Sheer Lari, and
opened her architecture firm Lari Associates
in Karachi, Sindh,Pakistan. She became the first female architect in
Pakistan. Initially, she faced difficulties when workers at construction sites
would challenge her authority or knowledge because of her gender.
 In 1969, Lari became an elected Member of the Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA).
 In 2013, she helped villagers in Awaran District who were hit by the
2013 Balochistan earthquake.

8.  Naval Officers Housing, Karachi
 Angoori Bagh Housing (also known as ABH) (1978)
 Taj Mahal Hotel, Karachi (1981)
 Finance and Trade Center (also known as FTC Building), Karachi (1989)
 Pakistan State Oil House (also known as PSO House), Karachi (1991)