Yasmin Shariff

Yasmin Shariff was born to Indian parents in Uganda, East Africa, in 1956 when Uganda was still a British protectorate. She spent her childhood between Hampshire in the United Kingdom and Nairobi until finally settling in Hertfordshire in 1977.^[2][5] She studied and graduated in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (Faculty of the Built Environment) at University College London. 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.^[6]

In addition to working as an architect in firms such as Populous, Pringle Brandon (Perkins and Will) and Jestico & Whiles, Shariff has also been a university professor for more than a decade at the University of Westminster. She is currently a board member of the firm Dennis Sharp Architects, which she joined in 1992. She has held the position of Honorary Secretary of the Chair of AA and AA XX 100^{[clarification needed]}, as well as conducting education consultancy at Eric Parry Architects.

She has participated in projects such as Aspenden Lodge (2007–2009); the renovation of Norman Foster's Renault factory in Swindon (2006–2008); the Luton Community Center (2005), the Eco-Home, Bayford (2005–2009); the Strawdance Dance Studio; and the Community Environmental Project (1999). She worked on the Trinity Bridge project in Manchester (1994–95), where she worked with the architect Santiago Calatrava.^[6][7][8][9]