Shaukat Mahmood (b. 1940) was born in Peshawar, the only one of six siblings to enter the arts. His grandfather, a Qazi in the British Courts, was an accomplished calligrapher who produced several copies of the Qur’an, an early artistic influence. Shaukat studied at Government College, Lahore, and entered the Fine Arts Department, University of the Punjab, in 1959. He completed his MA in 1962, standing first and receiving a Gold Medal. His teaching career began at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, where he taught History of Architecture, Perspective, and Sciagraphy. In 1976, he obtained a scholarship to study Architectural Conservation, earning an MSc in Architectural and Environmental Conservation...