Yasmeen Lari. An Architect
On the occasion of the ceremony to confer the Honorary Degree in Architecture – Laurea Magistrale ad honorem in Architettura e Ingegneria Edile-Architettura – upon Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, zero-carbon champion and advocate of the poorest of the poor, a number of events were planned: a workshop on her humanitarian architecture, meeting students participating in the workshop, publication and presentation of a monograph entitled Yasmeen Lari: An Architect.

Workshop students made prototypes (digital reproductions and scale maquettes) of her bestknown humanitarian projects to explore the study of vernacular – updated and enhanced –bamboo construction techniques. These prototypes are shown at LaborA, a physical and virtual modelling laboratory, on Politecnico di Milano’s new Architecture campus.

Yasmeen Lari: An Architect
Fabrizia Berlingieri, Emilia Corradi, Cassandra Cozza, Imma Forino

Language English
Publisher Pearson Italia
Year 2021

Measures 17 x 24 cm, pp. 144

ISBN 9788891927552 (printed)
ISBN 9788891927569 (pdf)

The book Yasmeen Lari: An Architect (Berlingieri F., Corradi E., Cozza C., Forino I.; Pearson Italy), published on the occasion of the conferral of the Honorary Degree in Architecture – Laurea Magistrale ad honorem in Architettura e Ingegneria Edile-Architettura – upon Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari at the AUIC School of the Politecnico di Milano in 2021 is available for free download .......

Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, has been engaged since 2005 in implementing and rethinking the practice of humanitarian architecture with an ecologically and socially sustainable approach that aims to empower Pakistan's most vulnerable populations and train young architects around the world. Among her most recent honors, in 2020 she won the Jane Drew Prize W Award, in 2021 the Politecnico di Milano awarded her the Laurea Magistrale ad Horonem, in 2022 she was appointed The Sir Arthur Marshall Professor of Sustainable Design in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, in May 2023 she received the Honorary Doctorate in Design from Oxford Brooks University where she graduated in 1964, and she is RIBA Royal Gold Medallist 2023 (member since 1969).

Her work is currently on display in the monographic exhibition Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future at the Architekturzentrum Wien, curated by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Marvi Mazhar.

Some models made at LaborA by the students of WS Yasmeen Lari's Humanitarian Architecture at AUIC School in 2021 (responsible prof. Cassandra Cozza) are on display in the exhibition, which is accompanied by the book Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future, published by MIT Press in 2023 and containing an essay by Cassandra Cozza on the importance of arch. Lari for future architects to rethink the values and practice of architecture which illustrates the research conducted with students at the AUIC School.

Reference Professor: Cassandra Cozza 
Proposing Professors: Fabrizia Berlingieri, Emilia Corradi, Imma Forino 
LaborA – physical and digital modelling laboratory: Cecilia Bolognesi, Renato Aiminio, Francesca Montaldo 
Tutors: Simone Balin (ologrammi e modellazione digitale); Filippo Oppimitti (virtual theatre, stampa 3d), Sara Anna Sapone, Arianna Scaioli, Andrea Sogja (modellazione digitale) 
Students: Tassnim Abdallah, Futaba Amano, Claudia Caccin, Niousha Doroudian, Ahmet Kayagil, Elaheh Nezafat, Giovanni Ossorio, Francesco Pauletti, Ilaria Pellegrini, Micaela Podestà, Federica Ronzitti, Mahsa Salek, Benedetta Tomasina, Guiqiang Yao, Siman Zhang, Jiayu Zhang, Yue Zhong 

The workshop aims at activating experimentation on the most recent dwelling prototypes developed by Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari with the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan. 

Students made physical and digital maquettes of some of Lari’s best-known humanitarian projects (LariOctaGreen - LOG, Woman Center, Pakistan Chulah) both using advanced digital tools (digital maquettes with constructive details that have been reproduced in the Virtual Theatre and the Room of the holograms at Labora, 3d printings, drawings adapted to the decimal metric scale) and making bamboo maquettes of the LOG Lari OctaGreen in scale 1:2 and 1:5, a bamboo housing module aimed at self-construction very resistant to earthquakes be self-constructed and it’s highly resistant to earthquakes. Particular attention was paid to explore the study of vernacular – updated and enhanced – bamboo construction techniques. 

Physical and digital maquettes made by the students at LaborA – physical and digital modelling laboratory –during the Workshop Yasmeen Lari’s Humanitarian Architecture will be shown to arch. Yasmeen Lari by the students that have taken part in the workshop. Moreover, they will be exhibited in the open spaces next to LaborA and, by reservation of a guided tour, inside the Virtual Theatre and Rooms of the Holograms inside the LaborA on October 20-21-22.

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Oya Atalay Franck and Fulvio Irace will present the monograph, Yasmeen Lari. An Architect written and published on the occasion of the conferment of the Honorary Degree in Architecture upon Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, zero-carbon champion and advocate of the poorest of the poor.

Architect Yasmeen Lari and the authors Fabrizia Berlingieri, Emilia Corradi, Cassandra Cozza, Imma Forino will be present.

Fabrizia Berlingieri, Emilia Corradi, Cassandra Cozza, Imma Forino. 2021. Yasmeen Lari: An Architect. Milano-Torino: Pearson Italia.

The monograph Yasmeen Lari: An Architect was written on the occasion of an Honorary Degree in Architecture awarded to Yasmeen Lari by Politecnico di Milano’s School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering.
The volume is the first organized collection of architect Yasmeen Lari’s projects and written works. In these critical essays, the authors document and illustrate this Pakistani architect’s career and the many striking actions that distinguish her work and civic engagement, and on whom Politecnico di Milano has conferred an Honorary Degree in Architecture.

The event will be held in English and will be streamed at the following link: https://youtu.be/uTdXQQB8YSc 

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^{© Photographs by Cassandra Cozza}

Workshop Yasmeen Lari’s Humanitarian Architecture
AUIC School, Politecnico di Milano | mber 6th–October 11th, 2021

Responsible professor: prof. Cassandra Cozza
Proposing professors: proff. Fabrizia Berlingieri, Emilia Corradi, Imma Forino
LaborA –  physical and digital modelling laboratory: prof. Cecilia Bolognesi, arch. Renato Aiminio, Francesca Montaldo
Tutors: Simone Balin (ologrammi e modelli virtuali), Filippo Oppimitti (virtual theatre, stampe 3D), Sara Anna Sapone, Arianna Scaioli, Andrea Sogja (modellazione digitale)
Students: Tassnim Abdallah, Futaba Amano, Claudia Caccin, Niousha Doroudian, Ahmet Kayagil, Elaheh Nezafat, Giovanni Ossorio, Francesco Pauletti, Ilaria Pellegrini, Micaela Podestà, Federica Ronzitti, Mahsa Salek, Benedetta Tomasina, Guiqiang Yao, Siman Zhang, Jiayu Zhang, Yue Zhong

Models made by the students of Yasmeen Lari's Humanitarian Architecture Workshop at LaborA - physical and virtual modeling laboratory, organized by the AUIC School on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary degree in Architecture to Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari in 2021, are on display in the monographic exhibition Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future at the Architekturzentrum Wien, curated by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar.
The exhibition is accompanied by the book Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future, published by MIT press, which contains an essay by Cassandra Cozza on the importance of arch. Lari for future architects to rethink the values and practice of architecture and illustrates the research conducted with AUIC School students.

https://www.azw.at/en/event/yasmeen-lari/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546096/yasmeen-lari/

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