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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 the 3rd millennium BC ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Islamic architecture. Islamic architecture. Top: arches of the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba ( Spain ); centre: the Jameh Mosque in Isfahan ( Iran ); bottom: interior side view of the main dome of the Selimiye Mosque ( Edirne, Turkey) Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.
Arif Hasan. Arif Hasan, is a Pakistani architect, planner, activist, social researcher, and writer. [1] He is a recipient of Hilal-i-Imtiaz, [2] the country's second highest award for its citizens.
The Pakistan Monument ( Urdu: یادگارِ پاکستان) is a national monument and heritage museum located on the western Shakarparian Hills in Islamabad, Pakistan. The monument was constructed to symbolize the unity of the Pakistani people. It is dedicated to the people of Pakistan who sacrificed their "today" for a better "tomorrow".
Harappan architecture. Harappan architecture is the architecture of the Bronze Age [1] Indus Valley civilization, an ancient society of people who lived during c. 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE in the Indus Valley of modern-day Pakistan and India . The civilization's cities were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage ...