Yasmin Shariff

Yasmin Shariff (born in 1956 in Uganda) is a Ugandan-born British architect, environmentalist and university professor, known for her defence of gender equality in the field of architecture.

She spent her childhood between Hampshire in the United Kingdom and Nairobi until finally settling in Hertfordshire in 1977.

Before that, Shariff had completed a master's degree in Archaeology in 1981 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

[6] In 1983, she married architect Dennis Sharp (1933–2010), with whom she had a son, Deen, and the family then moved to Epping, Essex.

She has participated in projects such as: Aspenden Lodge (2007–09); the renovation of the iconic Norman Foster Renault factory (2006–08); the Luton Community Center (2005), the Eco-Home, Bayford (2005–09); the Strawdance Dance Studio, the Community Environmental Project (1999) and the Trinity Bridge (1994–95), a project in which she worked with the architect Santiago Calatrava.