Experience

Heritage Foundation

• Pakistan
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair and CEO, Heritage Foundation of Pakistan; Chairperson, KaravanPakistan

  • 1980 - Present

  Heritage Foundation, established in 1980, is a Pakistan-based, not-for-profit, social and cultural entrepreneur organization engaged in research, publication and conservation of Pakistan’s cultural heritage. Since 2005 it has been deeply engaged also in humanitarian aid in disaster affected areas.The Foundation has been instrumental in saving a large number of heritage treasures and, as UNESCO team leader 2003-2005, oversaw the stabilization of the endangered Shish Mahal ceiling of the Lahore Fort World Heritage site. Since 2000, its outreach arm KaravanPakistan has involved communities and youth in heritage safeguarding activities. As part of Heritage for Rehabilitation programme, work on several projects has been undertaken for rehabilitation of communities, particularly women, affected by the Great Earthquake 2005 in Northern Pakistan. The establishment of KaravanPakistan Institute for Research and Training (KIRAT) in 2008 has helped in carrying out research and training on varied aspects of the earthquake affected areas.Since May 2009, the Heritage Preservation Centre has become functional for identifying, cataloguing and documenting heritage assets in earthquake affected areas of Hazara and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.Currently, Heritage Foundation is actively engaged in humanitarian aid work in Upper and Lower Sindh in the aftermath of Floods 2010 and 2011. Its objective is to propagate the use of improved sustainable vernacular methodologies to create sustainable structures that are disaster risk resistant. The training centre set up in Mohak Sharif, near Hyderabad, Sindh, provides training in eco-building techniques that are based on adobe/mud, lime and bamboo. All efforts are directed towards women's economic empowerment through their traditional skills to make communities self reliant.

• Principal

  • Jan 1964 - Jun 2000

  Lari Associates has been one of the foremost architectural consultancies in Pakistan and was closed on the retirement of Architect Yasmeen Lari in 2000.In addition to designing state of the art contemporary buildings e.g. Pakistan State Oil Head Office (1989), Karachi, Finance and Trade Centre (FTC) (1988), Karachi, Head Office of ABN Amro Bank (2000), several housing projects e.g. Naval Officers housing (1970) and social housing e.g. Angoori Bagh housing for low income families (1974) were designed. Work was also undertaken in informal settlements e.g. Essa Nagri (1969) as well as in adobe/mud structures e.g. Army Barracks, Bahawalpur (1979).