Pakistan’s “first woman architect,” Yasmeen Lari founded her Karachi-based firm Lari Associates in 1964. Since closing the practice in 2000, she has focused on heritage preservation work with UNESCO and disaster relief projects with the Pakistan Heritage Foundation, a family trust that she co-founded with her husband in 1980. Over the years, they have helped build over 40,000 earthquake and flood resistant houses, 30,000 smokeless stoves and hundreds of latrines in rural Pakistan. Lori's work is committed to low cost, zero carbon and zero waste methodologies based on vernacular traditions and aimed at sustainability. She has been widely recognized for her contribution to the field of architecture. She is the recipient of the 2020 Jane Drew Award, the 2018 World Habitat Award, the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize, and the 2016 Fukuoka Prize.

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