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  • Comment: I think Vandal may well pass WP:NPROF, bt there are referencing problems.
    All inline links should be removed, please, and turned into references if appropriate, Wikilinks, or external links in a section so named. See Wikipedia:External links. There should be no links pointing to external sources until those in the 'References' section (with the exception of one optional link in any infobox). 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 23:26, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: please read WP:REFB for help with formatting sources and note that we don't use external links in the body of an article. Theroadislong (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: See WP:BLP. Statements, starting with the date of birth, need to be sourced or removed. Greenman (talk) 07:52, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Professor Sajida Haider Vandal is a Pakistani architect, educationalist, and rights activist. Her main fields of expertise are architecture and planning, cultural heritage management and conservation, art and culture education and community development and empowerment of women.

Early life and Education

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Sajida Haider Vandal was born in 1947. She grew up and lives in Lahore, Pakistan. Sajida began her education in the Sacred Heart Convent school for girls in Lahore, and went on to take a first degree in Architecture at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, in 1970. In 1984 she followed this with a Masters degree in the Built Environment and Urban Design at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Sajida is a Fellow of the Institute of Architects, Pakistan (IAP)[1].[2]

Career

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After completing her Masters Sajida initially worked in an architectural practice together with her husband, Pervaiz Vandal, under the name Pervaiz Vandal and Associates designing a number of significant buildings in Lahore and the surrounding areas. For this work, in 2016 they were the first Pakistani architects to receive the Lifetime Achievement Sir Robert Matthew Award from the Commonwealth Association of Architects. The CAA President stated that he recognised "the contribution of the two architects Prof Parvaiz Vandal and Prof Sajida Haider Vandal towards the development of the profession, firstly through their lifelong and dedicated teaching and training of young architects spanning two generations and secondly, through their design practice and thirdly, through their research and scholarship"[3]

Sajida combined architectural practice with teaching and developing new courses in architecture and cultural studies at the National College of Arts, Lahore, where she became first Professor and later Principal.[2].

During this period she was also working as a consultant, trainer and facilitator for UNESCO in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and beyond[4]. Following the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sajida introduced intangible cultural heritage management into the work of the THAAP group, of which she is CEO[5]. In conjunction with UNESCO, Sajida and THAAP have managed numerous projects relating to the architectural, physical, and intangible cultural heritages of Pakistan. For this work she was awarded the title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres” by the French Government[6]

In 2018 the Institute of Art and Culture was established by governmental decree[7]. The building was designed by Pervaiz Vandal and Associates. Sajida was the first Vice Chancellor of the Institute, and remained in post till 2021[1].

Now widely recognised as a leading expert in intangible heritage in Pakistan and beyond, in 2023 she was selected as an expert member of the governing body at Unesco’s ICH Centre Tehran for a period of three years[8]. In the same year she received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dayal Singh Research and Cultural Forum[9], and was presented by the French ambassador to Pakistan with the further title of "Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters" for her commitment as an architect, urbanist, and educator, as well as her impact on the cultural life of Lahore"[10].

Publications

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  • Sajida Haider Vandal & Pervaiz Vandal (2006). The Raj, Lahore and Bhai Ram Singh. NCA.
  • Sajida Haider Vandal, ed. (2009). Conservation of Shalamar Garden : The UNESCO - Getty Foundation - Government of Punjab Project 2008-2009. Islamabad: UNESCO.
  • Sajida Haider Vandal, ed. (2011). Cultural Expressions of South Punjab. Lahore: UNESCO/THAAP. ISBN 9789698035150.[11]
  • Sajida Haider Vandal, ed. (2012). Empowering People through Crafts. UNESCO/THAAP.[12]

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