People and cities: Featuring Attiq Ahmed, Marvi Mazhar and Raza Ali Dada

LAHORE (Dunya News) – In this session of the Indus Conclave, Pakistan’s well-known architectural designers Marvi Mazhar, Attiq Ahmed, and Raza Ali Dada addressed the participants at the Indus Conclave over the issues facing people in the cities.

Marvi Mazhar is the co-founder of (ADRL) The Architectural Design Research Lab, housed within, and affiliated with, the Department of Architecture at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture—a research laboratory devoted to projects within the fields of architecture and urban design. In 2016, Mazhar founded Pakistan Chowk Community Centre and became an appointed member of the Lahore Conservation Society, Karachi Biennale (Outreach Committee), IAMKHI, and Secretary to South Asia Foundation (SAF-Pakistan) & ICCOMOS.

She worked as the Project Manager of the National History Museum (Lahore, Pakistan), conceptualised by The Citizens Archive of Pakistan. In 2018, she was appointed as advisor to the Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, and the National History & Literary Heritage Division. She is currently on academic sabbatical as a Chevening Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Research Architecture).

On the other hand, Raza Ali Dada is an architect and designer with work experience in diverse environments and client needs. Commercial, hospitality, education, health care, institutional, and residential projects have all been completed.Interests include industrial design with furniture and lighting products under development and production.

Attiq Ahmed is a principal architect and chief executive of AEDL. The company has worked on a wide range of projects, from designing and constructing office buildings to aircraft hangars, school spaces, to homes and their bespoke fittings and furniture. AEDL clients include Beaconhouse University, Lahore, and Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. AEDL worked with award-winning architect Nayyar Ali Dada, who designed AG House in Lahore, to refurbish the Alhamra Arts Center, Lahore, ahead of the 2005 SAARC art exhibition.