edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, and Architekturzentrum Wien

Introduction Yasmeen Lari Projects, Contexts, ConcernsYasmeen Lari Architecture for the Future 10Angelika Fitz and Elke KrasnyKarachi Modernism: Postcolonial Living 26Angelika FitzHousing Equality: Innovating Modernism and Tradition 36Elke KrasnyIcons for a Karachi Boulevard 48Angelika FitzMaterial Ecologies: Building the Local 58Elke Kransy, with additional research by Marvi MazharHeritage as Future: Decolonizing Legacies 72Elke KrasnyBuilding Policies, Laws, and Institutions 88Angelika FitzThe Architect as Humanitarian Worker 96Elke Krasny, with additional research by Marvi MazharA Zero-Carbon Revolution in Architecture 104Angelika FitzEssentials for Life 120 Angelika Fitz"Every decision has a global impact." 140Yasmeen Lari in Conversation with Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny Karachi, 2022Pakistan Under Construction 154Chris MoffatThe Blossoming World of Yasmeen Lari 166Helen ThomasRecognition for Built Heritage: A Continuing Struggle 173Anila NaeemKarachi: Neoliberal Infrastructural Decisions and Development Crisis 183Marvi MazharThe Gendered Impacts of Climate Change in Karachi 193Abira AshfaqThe Right to Housing 201Interview with Raquel Rolnik by Elke KrasnyCare by Design: Women, Change, and the Climate Crisis 206Anne KarpfA Building Becomes More Beautiful by Its Usage 213Runa KhanThe Stove Solution: Yasmeen Lari and the Reclamation of Feminist Knowledge 220Rafia ZakariaTeaching Zero-Carbon Design Methodologies 226Cassandra CozzaBuilding, Wounding, and the Future: On Planetary Care 234Elke KrasnyAcknowledgments 246About the Authors 249About the Editors 253About Yasmeen Lari 255Bibliography 265Index 277Imprint 285

A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs, drawings, and plans from Lari’s archive, most of which have not previously been shown or published.Lari’s architectural thinking and activism have always gone beyond the quest for a singular built solution. Rather, she strategically plans systemic approaches and solutions, be it for housing, a heritage foundation, or zero-carbon shelters with communities at risk. Original essays from diverse international contributors contextualize Lari’s work; investigate architecture and the postimperial, postcolonial, and postpartition condition; and examine the intersections of architecture and human rights, climate change, decolonization, gender, care, activism, and vernacular innovation. More than a tribute to Yasmeen Lari’s extraordinary career, this volume brings her legacy forward and shows how to create change today.Contributors:Abira Ashfaq, Cassandra Cozza, Angelika Fitz, Runa Kahn, Anne Karpf, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, Chris Moffat, Anila Naeem, Raquel Rolnik, Helen Thomas, Rafia Zakaria