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Yasmin
Shariff

Yasmin
Shariff trained at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett School of
Architecture University College and the School of Oriental and African
Studies, London. Her interest in environmental design and Islamic
architecture permeates most of the work she undertakes. She has lectured
widely on these subjects. Yasmin is currently a partner of Dennis Sharp
Architects and a senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture at
the University of Westminster. She has won several architectural and
research awards.
Yasmin serves
as an elected member of the Architects Registration Board and chaired
the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Eastern Region. She was
a member of the UK Government's national Sustainable Round Table, an
official Evaluator for EU Framework projects, an assessor for the Civic
Trust Awards and a member of RIBA Council.
Yasmin is a
board member of the East of England Development Agency and of Arts
Council East. She is also a member of the UK Government's Heritage
Protection Review Steering Committee.
Education
1976-79 RIBA Part 1 Architectural Association, London
1981-83, 85 RIBA Parts 2 & 3 Dipl Arch Bartlett School, University
College
London
1979-81 Master of Arts, School of Oriental and African
Studies, London
University
Awards
2003
RIBA East of England Spirit of Ingenuity Award
2001 Malcolm Dean Award
2000 Civic Trust Award Special Mention
1999 European Union Thermie Award
“Theory and Practice of Energy Efficient Design”
1997 National Lottery Arts For Everyone Express Grant “
Strawdance”
1979
Royal Institute of British Architects Research Award
“Designing for People with Mental Disabilities”.
Publications
and Papers
Contributor:
The Guinness Book
of Records 1492,
ed Deborah Manley, London 1992
The Encyclopedia
of Vernacular Architecture of the World,
ed Paul Oliver, Cambridge 1998
The Illustrated
Dictionary of Architects and Architecture,
ed Dennis Sharp, London 1991
Selected articles
Volume Hysteria, Planning in London, October 2004 p31-2
Renaissance Britain, Sunday Times Magazine, Hugh Pearman, 30
April 00 p 32
Sustaining the Development, Building Design, Hattie Hartman, 31
March 00 p25
Hay and Why, Building Design, Robert Bevan, 22 January 1999
p17-19
Misunderstanding Architecture, Architects' Journal, 27 Feb 1997
p24-5
Cities of the Future, Architects' Journal, 4 July 1996 p24-6
Facades of the Future, International Architecture &Construction,
Vol 2, London1994 p63-9
Damage Limitation, Building Magazine Housing Supplement, London
March 1993, p11-14
Zanzibar Village Builds on African and European Ideas, Architects'
Journal, 7 Oct 1992 p27
Art of Aquatecture, World Architecture, No 12, London1991 p54-7
Water Structures of the Sultanate of Gujarat, Architectural
Association Quarterly, Vol 13 No4, London,1982 p34-40
Conference Papers
East Coast
Connections- Africa and America,
National University of Mexico, Merida, Mexico, June 2005.
Suicide or
Salvation,
National University of Mexico, Mexico City June 2005
Renewable Energy
for Multiple Occupancy Buildings
(REMOB), Sustainable Homes Conference Warwick University, April 1998
Sustainable
Development and Women,
Workshop at the International Federation of University Women Council
Meeting, Geneva, July 1997
Address to the UN Plenary on Sustainability at the Habitat 11
Istanbul Conference as an NGO representative of the International
Federation of University Women June 1996
The Uses of Tradition in Building Sustainable Environments:
Traditional N Indian Ecological Architecture. 4th Conference of
IASTE Tunis Dec 1994
Conservation of Architectural Heritage: City of London: Facilitating
Conservation and Urban Renewal, Amman Jordan Nov 1993
Writings available on CICArchitecture:
Gulru Necipoglu: The Age of Sinan - Architectural
Culture in the Ottoman Empire
(Review)
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