Articles by Yasmeen Lari

Continuing our Designing for Disasters series, Yasmeen Lari warns that architects in the Global North cannot ignore the threat from environmental hazards exacerbated by climate change. As built environment professionals and as architects, are we aware that we are aggravating climate change because of the way we design and build? All around the world, most

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Architect Yasmeen Lari calls for a form of low-impact architecture that benefits disadvantaged people in her manifesto written for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. “The disadvantaged and those that live on the margins need more, not less, design to achieve a better quality of life,” writes Lari, who champions what she calls “barefoot social architecture”

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