BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:509@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T110000 DTSTAMP:20240206T214025Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/the-mumford-lecture-s pring-2022-yasmeen-lari-current-work-the-architect-for-the-poorest-of-the- poor/ SUMMARY:The Mumford Lecture: Current Work From "The Architect for the Poore st of the Poor”\, Featuring Yasmeen Lari DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis lecture is in the past and was presented via Zoom.\n \nThe speakers have kindly agreed to make a recording of this talk availab le here. See above\, or on YouTube. \n\nWatch the Seminar with Yasmeen Lar i and Spitzer Students on YouTube.\n\n\n \n\n\n \;\nPlease join us on April 7\, 2022 at 10a.m. for our prestigious Mumford Lecture. This year w e have the honor to welcome Pakistan’s first female architect\, Yasmeen Lari\, who will be speaking about groundbreaking work in her lecture "Curr ent Work\, The Architect for the Poorest of the Poor".⁠\nThere will also be a smaller student Zoom seminar with Mrs. Lari on Friday 4/8 at 11AM\, which she has generously offered to open to the public. [For this smaller Q&\;A\, RSVP here.]\n⁠\nThe Mumford Lecture is part of the 2022 Sprin g Sciame Lecture Series\, themed “Radical Black Space” and is free &am p\; open to the public.\n\nThis year's Mumford Lecture is being convened b y Kishwar Rizvi of Yale University and will feature Pakistan's first femal e architect\, Yasmeen Lari.\n\n \;\nSPEAKER INFO\nYasmeen Lari is Paki stan's first female architect. Born in 1941 in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan \, Mrs. Lari spent much of her childhood in Pakistan before moving to Lond on at 15 years old. She graduated from the Oxford School of Architecture i n 1964 at the age of 23\, and later returned to Pakistan with her husband to open their practice\, Lari Associates\, in Karachi.  Since her retire ment in 2000\, Mrs. Lari has remained active in the architecture community \, serving as an advisor to UNESCO\, as the executive director of Heritage Foundation Pakistan\, and as the chairperson of the Karavan Initiatives. She is also known for her social justice and advocacy\, and as of 2014\, h ad built some 36\,000 houses for those affected by Pakistan's floods and e arthquakes.\n\nSuggested Reading: Community Read Activity w/ Spitzer Commu nity\n\n \;\nSome of Mrs. Lari's awards and titles include:\nChair &am p\; CE\, Heritage Foundation of Pakistan\n\nTrustee\, Transparency Interna tional-Pakistan\n\nFounder Chair\, INTBAU Pakistan\n\n2002 - UN Recognitio n Award for the promotion of culture and peace\n\n2006 - Sitara-e-Imtiaz A ward\, one of the highest civil awards by the Government of Pakistan\, in recognition of her services to the architectural profession and to the her itage conservation of historical sites in Pakistan\n\n2011 - Pakistani "Fi rst Wonder Women of the Year Award"\n\n2013 - Islamic Development Bank Pri ze Laureate\n\n2016 - Fukuoka Prize for Arts &\; Culture\n\n2018 - Worl d Habitat Award\n\n2020 - Jane Drew Price\, given to an "architectural des igner who\, through their work and commitment to design excellence\, has r aised the profile of women in architecture."\n\n \;\nAbout the Mumford Lecture:\n\nEach spring\, the Spitzer School of Architecture and its Urba n Design Program present the Lewis Mumford Lecture and seminar. Named for writer\, architecture critic\, and urbanist Lewis Mumford\, who attended C ity College\, the series invites the world’s most distinguished urbanist s to speak freely and publicly about the future of cities and the social p urposes of architecture. This series was initiated by the late Michael Sor kin\, distinguished professor of architecture and director of the Urban De sign Program at the Spitzer School\, and curated by him for eleven years.\ n\n \;\nPrevious Mumford Lecturers:\n2004 Jane Jacobs\n2005 Mike Davis \n2006 Enrique Peñalosa\n2007 Amartya Sen\n2008 David Harvey\n2009 Paul A uster\n2011 Richard Sennett\n2012 Janette Sadik-Khan\n2013 Marshall Berman \n2014 Theaster Gates\n2015 Rebecca Solnit\n\n \;\n\nBio Sources: Arch itect Magazine\, Wikipedia\n CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Mumford Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR