Yasmeen Lari, the Pakistani architect who at 82 designs houses for the most vulnerable

Lime, clay, bamboo and straw are the ingredients of the extraordinary buildings designed by Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan’s most important architect, to ensure a home for the many who lost them in last summer’s floods. At 82, her motto has become “zero carbon, zero waste, zero donors to achieve zero poverty”.

Already known for building some of Karachi’s most famous buildings,