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Culture of Pakistan. Pakistani architecture is intertwined with the architecture of the broader Indian subcontinent. The major architectural styles popular in the past were Temple, Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Indo-Saracenic architecture, all of which have many regional varieties. With the beginning of the Indus civilization around the middle of ...
Nasreddin Murat-Khan [a] TI (1904 – 15 October 1970) was a Russian -born Pakistani architect and civil engineer. He is renowned for designing the iconic national monument, the Minar-e-Pakistan. [1] [2] [3] He was also the architect of the Gaddafi Stadium and several other notable buildings and structures.
Nayyar Ali Dada was born on 11 November 1943 in Delhi, British India, to a Sayyid family. [2] His family migrated to Lahore, Pakistan, in the 1950s. After finishing his basic education at the University of Punjab, Lahore in 1957, he enrolled in the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, as a student. In 1964, he graduated from NCA but chose to ...
Nayyar Ali Dada (Lahore) Habib Fida Ali (Karachi) Abdur Rahman Hye – (also known as A. R. Hye) – pioneer of institutional architecture in Pakistan. Yasmeen Lari (Karachi) – Pakistan's first woman architect [3] [citation needed] Nasreddin Murat-Khan (Lahore) – architect of the Minar-e-Pakistan and other structures.
Yasmeen Lari was born in 1941 in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan, [1] and spent her early years in and around Lahore in a renowned clan of Iraqi Biradari. Her father Zafarul Ahsan, an ICS officer, was working on major development projects in Lahore and other cities, through which Lari was exposed to architecture. Her sister is Pakistani politician ...
Wazir Khan (Lahore) Civil engineer. Abd al-Karim. The Naulakha Pavilion ( Urdu: نولکھا) is a white marble personal chamber with a curvilinear roof, located beside the Sheesh Mahal courtyard, in the northern section of the Lahore Fort in Lahore, Pakistan. The monument is one of the 21 monuments situated within the Lahore Fort, with its ...
Mazar-e-Quaid ( Urdu: مزارِ قائد ), also known as Jinnah Mausoleum or the National Mausoleum, is the final resting place of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Designed in a 1960s modernist style, it was completed in 1971, and is an iconic symbol of Karachi as well as one of the most popular tourist sites in the city. [1]
A.R. Hye, on his graduation day at the University of Edinburgh, 1951. Abdur Rahman Hye ( Urdu: عبد الرحمن حئی; 17 December 1919 – 18 September 2008) was a Pakistani architect and a pioneer of institutional architectures in Pakistan .