Professor Yasmeen Lari

Yasmeen Lari was the first female architect in Pakistan and winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2020. She trained as an architect in the UK and opened her practice in Pakistan at the age of 23, over the next 40 years firmly establishing herself as one the regions leading design architects with a series of startling brutalist buildings. Retiring from mainstream practice she has spent the last twenty years focused on humanitarian architecture, focusing on low cost solutions to regional problems and the role of women in leading change. She will be resident in Jesus College for the academic year and hopes to use the Professorship to promote discussions of how humanitarian relief can be most efficiently used in Pakistan, engaging with students, politicians, NGOs and the UN to further these aims.