Aqeel Abbas Jafri practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Aqeel Abbas Jafri as Pakistani architect, researcher, poet.
Aqeel Abbas Jafri was born in 1957. His recorded nationality is Pakistan. He trained at University of Karachi and Federal Urdu University.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as journalist, poet and historian.
His work is associated with halqa-e arbab-e zauq.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Pakistan shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Aqeel Abbas Jafri is still practising, and the body of work is not yet complete.
Achievements
- Movement: Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq
- Trained at University of Karachi and Federal Urdu University
