Architecture after independence: 55 architects of pakistan

The book is edited by Murtuza Shikoh & Zain Mankani, and has four substantial essays to launch the critical conversation. Kamil Khan Mumtaz provides a thorough documentation of the architects since independence, and follows their education and professional training in detail. He brings much personal knowledge of the individuals involved and the histories that developed around them. His essay should, in fact, be expanded into a new book, following his two earlier books of 1985 and 1999, documenting the sources of the contemporary architecture of Pakistan. Arif Hassan’s “Architecture Then and Now” provides the most critical view of the architecture in its ignorance of the socio-political realities that surround it.....