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Yasmeen Lari is the first woman architect in Pakistan and the founder of the Heritage Foundation, a cultural and social entrepreneur organisation that she set up in 1980 with her husband Suhail Zaheer Lari. Yasmeen graduated from Oxford School of Architecture (now Oxford Brookes University) in 1963 and got elected into the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1969. She was awarded the Jane Drew Prize 2020 in recognition of her tireless humanitarian work over the last two decades that has led to raising the profile of women in architecture. Yasmeen’s career that spans more than four decades has seen her from designing megastructures in a post-independent Pakistan to later working only for those with a bare minimum. She is also a recipient of Japan’s Fukuoka Prize for Arts and Culture and she has been published among 60 women who have contributed the most to UNESCO’s objectives.
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand. Her focus is on building productive Green public spaces that tackle climate change in dense, urban areas and climate-vulnerable communities. She is CEO and Founder of Landprocess and Porous City Network, as well as the Chairwoman of Climate Change Working Group (IFLA World). Kotchakorn is a TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow and Atlantic Fellow. She received her Master’s in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Kotchakorn has been named one of BBC’s 100 Women 2020 and the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg. Recently, she received an award from the United Nations as one of the winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results. She was featured in TIME’s 100 Next in 2019, a list that spotlights 100 rising stars who are shaping the future of the world. She was also on TIME’s list of 15 women fighting against climate change.
Sonali Rastogi is an Indian architect and co-founder of Morphogenesis—an architecture and urban design studio based in New Delhi, which she started with her partner Manit Rastogi. Morphogenesis is one of the most successful contemporary architectural practices in India that has gained global recognition. Sonali is a graduate of Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. In 2014, she was named co-laureate of the SIA Getz Award by the Singapore Institute of Architects.
Ching-Hwa Chang is the founding partner and principal architect at Bio-architecture Formosana, one of the leading sustainable architecture practices in Taiwan. In addition to designing award-winning projects across Taiwan, she received the Taiwan Architecture Award in 2007 and 2009, with an honourable mention in 2014. For many years, she has inspired the next generation of architecture students as a professor at the National Cheng Kung University and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
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