Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro - Architect, writer.
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 also written for a number of international publications, such as Springerin (Austria), Mark Magazine (Holland), Blueprint (UK), Novo (Germany) and the newly launched Glass (UK). He wrote a chapter entitled 'Density versus Sprawl' in The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated. He has spoken on a range of issues around art, architecture and the city.
Karl Sharro presents his future city in the session The Future City: Rewriting the Rulebook
