- Urban planning
- Land use management
- Policy research & development
- Sustainable city design
- Academic teaching & training.
She is widely respected for proving that disaster relief housing can be dignified, culturally rooted, and genuinely sustainable instead of concrete heavy and donor dependent. International recognition includes the RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2023 and the Jane Drew Prize 2020, reflecting her impact on both climate justice and women’s leadership in architecture.
His work is widely associated with strong spatial discipline, local material sensibility (especially Lahore’s brick context), and public-building clarity—designs that “age well” and remain culturally legible.
National recognition includes Pride of Performance (1992) and later Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2018) among other honors.