FORA.tv Speaker - Karl Sharro

Karl Sharro is an architect, writer and co-founder of Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture (ManTowNHuman) He has practiced architecture in London and Beirut, and taught for five years at the American University of Beirut where he participated in various research projects on post-war reconstruction and urban renewal. He also taught a seminar that looked at the relationship between art and the city in which a number of artists, film-makers and writers participated. Karl has written for a number of international publications, such as Springerin (Austria), Mark Magazine (Holland) and Blueprint (UK). He wrote a chapter entitled ‘Density versus Sprawl’ in the upcoming book The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated.