By Chris Moffat with Kiran Ahmad and Amen Jaffer

Kamil Khan Mumtaz is one of Pakistan’s most celebrated architects. The approach to building he has refined over a sixty-year career represents a radical challenge to how architecture is practised in the contemporary world.

The Time of Building: Kamil Khan Mumtaz and Architecture in Pakistan brings together Mumtaz’s reflections on architecture and history with rarely seen photographs, drawings and archival documents. Moving from the precision of the stonemason’s chisel to the expansive imagination of the urban planner in an area of climate change, Mumtaz offers critical insights into architecture’s relationship to time, politics, craft and the sacred. His words and buildings provide a powerful example of South Asia’s vitality is a site for rethinking modern architectural thoughts. They bear critical lessons for the present and the future – the question of what architecture could and should be in a world shaped increasingly by inequality, environmental crisis and scarcity.