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Name
Arif Hasan
Role
Architect
Books
Karachi: The Land Issue, The unplanned revolution, Migration and Small Towns in, From Micro‑finance to the Buil, Participatory Development: The Story
Education
Oxford Brookes University
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Arif Hasan, is a Pakistani architect, planner, activist, social researcher, and writer. He is a recipient of Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the country's highest award for its citizens.
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Early life and education
Born in 1943, Arif Hasan migrated with his parents to Karachi in 1947. Hasan studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University), UK from 1960 to 1965.
He received his school and college education in Karachi; studied architecture at the Oxford Polytechnic, UK from 1960–1965; worked in architects' offices in the UK, France and Spain for three years, and returned to Karachi in 1968 to establish his independent practice. This practice slowly evolved into dealing with national and International urban planning and development issues.
Architecture
In 1968, he started his own practice in Karachi.
Current selected involvements
Architect and planning consultant in private practice
Documenting Karachi's history and development issues and the process of social change in Pakistan
Visiting professor, Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University, Karachi
Chairperson, Orangi Pilot Project-Research & Training Institute, Karachi
Chairperson, Urban Resource Centre, Karachi
Member of the Executive Council of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Bangkok
Chancellor, Textile Institute of Pakistan, Karachi
Member of the Advisory Board of "Environment & Urbanization", the journal of the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK
Member, Editorial Board of "International Development Planning Review", Liverpool University, UK
Member, Board of Studies for
Architecture at the NED University, Karachi
Karachi University Visual Arts Department
The Department of Architecture and Planning, Dawood College, Karachi
Member, UN's Advisory Group on Forced Evictions
Member, Sindh Cultural Heritage Technical and Advisory Committees of the Culture Department of the Sindh Government
Member, Governing Body of the Karachi Public Transport Society
Activism
He has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP), Karachi since 1982. In 1989, he founded the Urban Resource Centre (URC) in Karachi of which he is a founder and chairman.
Some previous involvements
As Consultant in the 1970s to the Appropriate Technology Development Organisation (ATDO) of the Government of Pakistan, developed models for sanitation, housing and the conceptual framework for research on low cost building materials and environmental issues
As Principal Consultant of the Orangi Pilot Project (1981–2000), applied and modified the models developed for the ATDO to the self-help philosophy of Akhtar Hameed Khan, documented them and their social and physical impacts and promoted their expansion in different areas of Pakistan and abroad
Promoted the ATDO/OPP concepts with modifications for different urban and rural contexts as consultant and advisor to different multilateral and bilateral development agencies, government institutions and policy issues, national and international NGOs, and the Aga Khan Network. This led to the establishment of a number of development organisations such as Thardeep
Was a member of the Governing Boards of the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK; Karachi Water & Sewerage Board; Karachi Development Authority; National Fund for Mohenjodaro; Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi; Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Karachi; Karachi Metropolitan Transport Authority; Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund; Thardeep Rural Development Project
Member of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal's Task Force 8 (2003–2004); Drafting Committee of the National Housing Policy of the Government of Pakistan (1989); Government's 2007 Task Force on Pakistan Vision 2030.
Member of the External Review Committee for the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture at MIT and Harvard; Senior Fellow of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; and chairperson of the Federal Government's Task Force on Urbanization; and Member, Academic Committee and of the Architecture Board of Studies at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi
Important architectural works
Hasan Square, Karachi, August 1972
SOS Children’s Village, Karachi, May 1985
Orangi Pilot Project-Research and Training Institute Building, 1986
Pakistan Institute of Labor Education and Research Complex, Karachi, 2000
Nagarparkar Guest House Complex, 2009
Sind Rural Support Organisation, Head Office & Hostel, Sukkur, September 2009
Crescent Model School, Lahore, 1966
Sind Zamindar Hotel conservation, Karachi, 2004
Important social projects
OPP-RTI – Sanitation and Housing Programmes
Thardeep Rural Development Project
Nagarparkar Tallukka Planning Project
Kareemabad Planning Support Services
Awards
1983: Best Building Award, Karachi Development Authority (KDA)
1990: International Year for the Shelterless Memorial Award, Japan
2000: Prince Claus Award: Urban Heroes, Netherlands
2000: World Habitat Award of the British Housing Foundation (conferred on the Orangi Pilot Project-Research & Training Institute)
2001: Hilal-i-Imtiaz
2003: Life Time Achievement Award, Institute of Architects, Pakistan
Honours
1987: Celebrity speaker at the 16th Union of International Architects Congress in Brighton, UK
1990 – 1996: Member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
1995 – 1998: Master Jury member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva
2007: Member, INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism), India Committee of Honour
Resilience, Sustainability and Development:some as yet undefined issues Woodrow Wilson Conference on Community Resilience, 2008
Books
Participatory Development, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
"Understanding Karachi: Planning and reform for the future", Karachi: City Press. ISBN 978-9698380281
The Unplanned Revolution, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
Planning and Development Options for Karachi, Islamabad: Shehersaaz
The Scale and Causes of Urban Change in Pakistan, Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
Hasan, Arif and Mansoor Raza, Hijrat Aur Pakistan Mein Chotey Shehr (Urdu), Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
Hasan, Arif and Mansoor Raza, "Migration and Small Towns in Pakistan" (English), Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
Hasan, Arif, Asiya Sadiq Polak and Christophe Polak, The Hawkers of Saddar Bazaar, Karachi: Ushba Publishing International
Hasan, Arif and Mansoor Raza, "From Micro-finance to the Building of Local Institutions: The Evolution of Micro-credit Programme of the OPP's Orangi Charitable Trust, Karachi, Pakistan", Karachi: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0199065097
