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Barefoot Social Architecture / [presented by] Yasmeen Lari.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and energy conservation--Pakistan.
- Architecture and energy conservation.
- Sustainable architecture--Pakistan.
- Sustainable architecture.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (43 minutes)): sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 2021.
- Summary:
- Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan's first female architect. Now in her 80s, she is a recent recipient of the Jane Drew prize. After making her name with modern housing projects such as Anguri Bagh in Lahore in the 1970s, and prestige corporate buildings like the Pakistan State Oil House in the 1990s, the earthquake that struck northern Pakistan in 2005 put her on a radical change of path. In this talk, she explains how she was compelled to find ways to help the earthquake victims to rebuild their communities using local materials and building traditions. In the years since, she has developed her approach to low cost, zero-carbon buildings into what she calls Barefoot Social Architecture (BASA) - an example being the Zero Carbon Cultural Centre in Makli, a training space established by the Heritage Foundation, an organisation she co-founded with her husband. What, she asks, should the role of the architect be in a time of climate emergency?
- Contents:
- Yasmeen Lari
- Pakistan Earthquake 2000
- Earthquake Reconstruction Shelter, 2000. Designed by Yasmeen Lari
- Housing for Disaster Victims. Designed by Yasmeen Lari
- Anguri Bagh Housing Scheme, Lahore, Pakistan, 1973. By Yasmeen Lari
- Pakistan State Oil House, Karachi, Pakistan, 1991. By Yasmeen Lari
- -Housing for Disaster Victims. By Yasmeen Lari
- -Frere Hall Arcade, Karachi, Pakistan, 1865. By Henry Saint Clair Wilkins
- Ashabi Mosque, Makli, Pakistan
- Barefoot Social Architecture (BASA)
- Yasmeen Lari at her Women's Community Centre, based on bamboo stilts, Moaf Sharif, Sindh Province, Pakistan, 2013
- Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, Makli, Pakistan, 2011 - 2015. By Yasmeen Lari
- Yasmeen Lari.
- Notes:
- Recorded in 2021.
- Title from publisher's website (viewed February 20, 2023).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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