Alhamra brings another interesting episode of its monthly literary and cultural session "Kuch Yaadain Kuch Batain, online through ZOOM.
In this episode, LAC introduced its audience with a person for whom it would not be unfair to say that there will not be a single big city in Pakistan where there is no great one building designed by him.
The work of this person is his identity. So in the second online episode of the program, the world-renowned and greatest architect Nayyar Ali Dada was the guest speaker.
Nayyar Ali Dada’s prolific and creative career spanning more than five decades, no doubt about it that Dada knows how to do poetry with the bricks and how to paint an expression into a built form as he is a true identity of Pakistan.
He was enrolled in National College of in the '60s when NCA was a hub of progressive and creative ideas under the direction of the great artist and Prof and principle Shakir Ali.
During the session, Nayyar Ali Dada shared his golden memories, experiences and observations with the audience. Sumera Khalil moderated the program.
In the first question, Ali Dada was asked he built Banks, Parks and other big buildings, which of these buildings did you enjoy the most? In response, he said that the most fun came during the construction of Shakir Ali Museum because I was working for my teacher the way he teaches work is very interesting.