Yasmeen Lari
Channel: Columbia GSAPP
Date: 01/10/2020

Yasmeen Lari is the first woman to qualify as an architect in Pakistan in 1963, after training in the UK at the Oxford School of Architecture. She is the co-founder of Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and has received many awards as an architect, as a heritage conservationist, and for her humanitarian architecture work—most notably the Star of Distinction in 2006 and Crescent of Distinction in 2014 from the President of Pakistan.

Response by Assistant Professor Ateya Khorakiwala.