EAN: 9780262546096

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. After more than three decades as a renowned global architect Yasmeen Lari the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964 developed Zero Carbon Architecture which unites ecological and social justice. This volume edited by Angelika Fitz Elke Krasny and Marvi Mazhar  presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs drawings and plans from Lari’s archive most of which have not previously been shown or published. Lari’s architectural thinking and activism have always gone beyond the quest for a singular built solution. Rather she strategically plans systemic approaches and solutions be it for housing a heritage foundation or zero-carbon shelters with communities at risk. Original essays from diverse international contributors contextualize Lari’s work investigate architecture and the postimperial postcolonial and postpartition condition and examine the intersections of architecture and human rights climate change decolonization gender care activism and vernacular innovation. More than a tribute to Yasmeen Lari’s extraordinary career this volume brings her legacy forward and shows how to create change today. Contributors: Abira Ashfaq Cassandra Cozza Angelika Fitz Runa Kahn Anne Karpf Elke Krasny Marvi Mazhar Chris Moffat Anila Naeem Raquel Rolnik Helen Thomas Rafia Zakaria

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