Work
Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, Makli
Explore in the Atlas →Lari's giant bamboo, lime and earth pavilion, built by formerly destitute villagers beside the Makli necropolis, embodies her 'barefoot social architecture' of carbon-zero, self-built community infrastructure.
Collectivity Production Ephemerality
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Makli, Sindh, Pakistan
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalSouth asian
Connections
- exemplifies Vernacular Architecture
- articulates Appropriate Technology
Referenced by
- Yasmeen Lari authored
Sources
- Yasmeen Lari and Angelika Fitz (ed.). Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future. MAK / ArchiTangle, 2023.
- The Architectural Review. Retrospective: Yasmeen Lari. EMAP, 2020.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, Makli." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/zero-carbon-cultural-centre/. Accessed July 17, 2026.