Woman decorating her prefab bamboo house | Photos courtesy of Yasmeen Lari
An Interview by Lori Ferriss with Yasmeen Lari. Featured in Architizer.
Dr. Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first female architect and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan. After a career as a leading commercial architect, she shifted her focus to humanitarian architecture. She pioneered what she calls Barefoot Social Architecture, a model for self-built, resilient, low-carbon housing using local materials and craft. This approach has resulted in the construction of some 40,000 refugee homes…
