Title & Author:

Yasmeen Lari : architecture for the future / edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, and Architekturzentrum Wien.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future (March 9, 2023 - August 16, 2023), Architekturzentrum Wien" -- Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
Yasmeen Lari : architecture for the future / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny -- Karachi modernism : postcolonial living / Angelika Fitz -- Housing equality : innovating modernism and tradition / Elke Krasny -- Icons for a Karachi boulevard / Angelika Fitz -- Material ecologies : building the local / Elke Krasny with additional research by Marvi Mazhar -- Heritage as future : decolonizing legacies / Elke Krasny -- Yasmeen Lari interview -- "Every decision has a global impact" : Yasmeen Lari in conversation with Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, Karachi, 2022 -- Building policies, laws, and institutions / Angelika Fitz -- The architect as humanitarian worker / Elke Krasny with additional research by Marvi Mazhar -- A zero-carbon revolution in architecture / Angelika Fitz -- Essentials for life / Angelika Fitz -- Pakistan under construction / Chris Moffat -- The blossoming world of Yasmeen Lari / Helen Thomas -- Recognition for built heritage : a continuing struggle / Anila Naeem -- Karachi : neoliberal infrastructural decisions and development crisis / Marvi Mazhar -- The gendered impacts of climate change in Karachi / Abira Ashfaq -- The right to housing : interview with Raquel Rolnik by Elke Krasny -- Care by design : women, change, and the climate crisis / Anne Karpf -- A building becomes more beautiful by its usage / Runa Khan -- The stove solution : Yasmeen Lari and the reclamation of feminist knowledge / Rafia Zakaria -- Teaching zero-carbon design methodologies / Cassandra Cozza -- Building, wounding, and the future : on planetary care / Elke Krasny.

Summary:

A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari. 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.

ISBN:

0262546094 (paperback)
9780262546096 (paperback)

Subject:

Lari, Yasmeen
Women architects Pakistan Biography.
Women architects Pakistan Exhibitions.
Architecture Environmental aspects Exhibitions.
Architecture Human factors Exhibitions.
Architecture and climate.
Femmes architectes Pākistān Biographies.
Femmes architectes Pākistān Expositions.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Expositions.
Architecture Facteurs humains Expositions.
Architecture et climat.
Women architects.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Exhibitions.
Architecture Human factors.
Pakistan.

Form/genre:

interviews.
Biographies
Interviews
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Fitz, Angelika, editor.
Krasny, Elke, 1965- editor.
Mazhar, Marvi, editor.
Moffat, Chris, contributor.
Thomas, Helen, 1990- contributor.
Naeem, Anila, contributor.
Ashfaq, Abira, contributor.
Rolnik, Raquel, contributor.
Karpf, Anne, contributor.
Khan, Runa, contributor.
Zakaria, Rafia, 1978- contributor.
Cozza, Cassandra, 1978- contributor.
Architektur Zentrum Wien, publisher, host institution.
MIT Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318060
Call No.: 318060
Copy: 1
Status: Available