Arif Hasan Award-winning architect, urban planner, social researchers Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistani architect and planner, activist, teacher, social researcher, writer and former Fellow with the International Institute of Environment and Development

Arif Hasan is a Pakistani architect and planner, activist, teacher, social researcher, writer and former Fellow with the International Institute of Environment and Development. He studied architecture at the Oxford Polytechnic, worked in Europe in architect’s offices, and on his return to Karachi in 1968, established an independent practice which slowly evolved into dealing with national and international urban planning and development issues. He has taught at Pakistani and European universities and lectured widely both in the North and the South.