Angelika Fitz

It is a good year for architecture exhibitions on women from Asia: In addition to the TUM exhibition on Marina Tabassum, featured above, AzW is displaying a major exhibition (until August 16) on Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect. The companion book to Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future is compact and somewhat modest, befitting Lari, an architect who designed modern buildings for decades but reversed course this century, after retiring from architecture in the service of the rich. The book presents this trajectory "from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary" through projects, an interview with Lari, and numerous essays. Lari's humanitarian homes have garnered her much attention — much of it well outside of Pakistan. This book puts those efforts into a wider context.… (meer)