H A S H I M S A R K I S

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EDUCATION

PhD in Architecture June 1995 Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (minor in political philosophy)

Dissertation title: “Publics and Architects: Re-Engaging Design in the Democracy.” Committee: K. Michael Hays, Peter G. Rowe, and Jorge Silvetti, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard Law School

Master in Architecture June 1989 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design With Distinction and the Chairman's Commendation Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts May 1987 Rhode Island School of Design Payette Award for Academic Excellence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Private Practice Hashim Sarkis Studios Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design 1218 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 t: 617-864-5364 f: 617-864-5394 Gefinor Center, Bloc C, Suite 802 Clemenceau Street, Hamra Beirut, Lebanon t/f: 011-961-1-741-388

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Selected Projects of Hashim Sarkis Studios: Dana House Cambridge, 2014 Addition to existing historic house Design development School for Syrian Refugees Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, 2013 Preliminary proposal Milanillos School Arquine Magazine, Mexico, 2013 Conceptual design for a school Aamchit Houses Aaamchit, Lebanon, 2012 Design of cluster of four beach houses and a large landscape Under construction

Downtown Beirut, New Corniche Beirut, Lebanon, 2012 winners of invited competition, with George Hargreaves Associates Landscape Architects, and Jean-Marc Bonfils, Contract negotiation Private Residence Beirut, 2012 Redesign of duplex in residential tower Under construction Urban Design of Historic Byblos Byblos, Lebanon, 2012 Ongoing Private Residence Dhour Shwayr, Lebanon, 2012 Summer house on a steep slope Concept design Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale Pavilion, 2011-2012 Invited as one of twelve international architects to design a pavilion and exhibit HSS work in “The Street” exhibition Completed 2011

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Master Plan for Middle East Academy Anti-Lebanon, 2011 Master plan and design of large education complex including a school and housing for students and faculty Completed 2013 Yenikapi Urban Design Competition Istanbul, Turkey, April 2012 Selected as one of nine international firms (with Mimarlar) Byblos Town Hall Byblos, Lebanon 2011 First prize competition winner of new town hall Under construction, to be completed 2015 Boston Society of Architects Headquarters Competition Boston, 2011 Finalist Boston Eye Group Boston, 2011 Remodeling of eye clinic Completed 2012 Revere Street Residence Remodeling Beacon Hill, Boston, 2010 Completed 2011 Echmoun Retreat and Conference Center Rachana, Lebanon, 2009 Preliminary design Passion Fruit Juice Factory Malindi, Kenya, 2009 In collaboration with Mimarlar Concept design Yarzeh Residences Beirut, 2009 Ten apartment buildings Under construction Tremont Street Residences South End, Boston, 2009 Apartment building renovation Completed 2012

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Faraya Chalets Complex Faraya, Lebanon, 2009 Preliminary design Al Zorah New City Ajman, United Arab Emirates, 2008 Urban design guidelines for development project Completed 2009 SOS Village High School Qsarnaba, Bekaa Valley, 2008 Preliminary design/fund raising Zorlu Center Istanbul, Turkey, 2007 Pre-selected competition, in collaboration with Mimarlar and Hargreaves Associates for design of mixed-use development Finalist Assabil Public Library Hamra, Beirut, 2007 Preliminary design/ fund raising Bademli House Aegean Coast, Turkey, 2006 Design development The Edge Dubai, 2006 Invited competition for design of mixed-use development in collaboration with Manuel Aires-Mateus Finalist Alumni House, St. Joseph School Cornet Chahwan, Lebanon, 2006 Design development/fund raising Doha Downtown Redevelopment Qatar, 2006-2007 Urban design consultant Asian University for Women Bangladesh, 2006, preliminary design Consultant for Perry Dean and Rogers Associates

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Irani/Oxy Engineering Labs Building at the American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon, 2006 Invited competition, in collaboration with Payette Associates Second place Institute for Policy Studies at the American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon, 2006 Invited competition, in collaboration with Anmahian-Winton Master Planning of Resort-Residential Development Aley, Lebanon, 2005 Preliminary design Martrys’ Square International Competition Beirut, Lebanon, 2005 Third place CMA-CGM Office Building Beirut, Lebanon, 2005 Invited competition Second place Oleana Restaurant Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005 Completed 2007 Remodeling of loft apartment Boston, 2005 Completed 2005 Apartment Building in Jemmayzeh Beirut, 2004 Preliminary design Corniche Area Urban Design Guidelines Doha, Qatar, 2003 Completed 2004 Oceana Ecotourist Beach Landscape and Urban Design Damour, Lebanon, 2003 Completed 2004 Food Factory Bekaa, Lebanon, 2003 Design development

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Olive Oil Press Batroun, North Lebanon, 2002 Completed 2006 Dana Street House Cambridge, 2002 Completed 2005 Pre-School and Community Center Mejdlaya, North Lebanon, 2001 Design development Balloon Landing Park Downtown Beirut, 2001 Completed 2005, destroyed 2007 Tal Square urban design and preservation project Tripoli, Lebanon, 2001 Preliminary design Brewery Bliss Street, Beirut, 2001 Preliminary design Remodeling of apartment building Verdun, Beirut, 2000 Design development Market and youth center Zahleh, Lebanon, 2000 Preliminary design Bab Tebbaneh School Tripoli, North Lebanon, 1999 Preliminary design Center for Agriculture in North Lebanon Mejdlaya, North Lebanon, 1999 Partly completed, 2005 Housing Complex for the Fishermen of Tyre South Lebanon, 1998 Completed 2008

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For Rafael Moneo, Architect, Madrid (1996-1999): The Souks of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon Completed 2009 Non-Profit Activity: Center for Arab Architecture Beirut, Lebanon, Founding Member, 2007-present Association for Rural Development in Southern Lebanon Member of the Board of Trustees, 2004-2012 PLAN B, Institute for Urban Design Studies in Lebanon and the Middle East Founding Member and Programs Director (1991-1998) Professional Honors and Awards: Venice Biennale American Pavilion featuring Byblos Town Hall, Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, and the Balloon Landing Park, June-November 2014 Boston Society of Architects Exhibition featuring Byblos Town Hall, November-December 2012 Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale Pavilion, Exhibition of HSS design work, 2011-2012 Venice Biennale Albanian Pavilion featuring Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, June-November 2012 First Prize Winner Byblos Town Hall Competition, Byblos, Lebanon, January 2011 Museum of Modern Art, New York Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre selected as one of eleven international projects for the exhibition, “Small Projects, Big Change,” October-December 2010 Design Award - Boston Society of Architects Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, 2008

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Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre selected as one of the most significant buildings of the 21st Century, 2008 Progressive Architecture Award: Citation for Bab Tebbaneh School for Working Children Tripoli, Lebanon, 2007

Second Place - FEAD Competition American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2006 Second Place - CMA-CGM Competition Beirut, Lebanon, 2005 Rotterdam Architectural Biennale Lebanon Representative, 2005 Third Prize - Martyrs Square Ideas Competition May 2005 Honors Certificate Balloon Landing Project, Cityscape, 2004 Honors Certificate Fishermen’s Housing Project, Cityscape, 2004 Honorable Mention - Elemental Housing Competition Chile, 2003 Professional Juries and Project Reviews

Harvard University, Campus Architecture Reviewer, 2012, 2013 and 2014

Harvard University, Project Architect Selection Committee, 2013 Holcim Awards, Head of Africa and Middle East Jury, 2011 Masdar Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, 2009 SOM Travel Grant, 2006 American University of Beirut, Olayan School of Business, 2003

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Doha Waterfront Competition, 2003 Boston Society of Architects, Travel Grant Jury, 2002

Publications of Design Work:

“Millanillos School,” in Arquine, Number 65, Autumn 2013, 110-112 “Heading Inland,” by Natalie Shooter in Brownbook, Number 40, July-August 2013, 104-

111 “Byblos Town Hall,” in L’Officiel du Levant, March 2013 Contemporary Architecture in the Arab World, Mohammad al-Asad, (Gainesville,

University of Florida Press, 2012) “Byblos Town Hall,” in L’Orient le Jour, Beirut, February 14, 2012 "Working Grounds: Four Agro-industrial Projects" in Workplaces: The Transformation of

Places of Production; Industrialization and the Built Environment in the Islamic World, edited by Mohammad al-Asad, Istanbul Bilgi University Press in cooperation with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2011

“Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in LA China, No.2, 2011 “Design in Another Dimension: Morality,” review of MoMA exhibition, Small Scale, Big

Change by Robert Campbell in The Boston Globe, December 19, 2010 “One Thousand Courtyards,” in The Courtyard House, edited by Nasser Rabbat, Ashgate

Publishers, London, 2010

Small Scale, Big Change, New Architectures of Social Engagement, edited by Andres Lepik, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010

“Hashim Sarkis: Batisseur du 3e Type,” in L’Officiel Levant, N.9, October 2010 “The Robin Hood of Fishermen,” in Al-Akhbar Daily, March 19, 2010 “Fishermen Housing Resttlement,” in Human Settlements, Formulations and

(re)Calibrations, UFO 2, Sun Academia, 2010 “166-171

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“A la maison du pecheur, la modernité a rendez-vous avec la tradition,” by George Achi, in L’Orient le-Jour, January 15, 2009

“Bademli House,” in Betonart 18, 2008, 72-73 Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre in Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, 2008

“Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in Boston Society of Architects Awards, November

2008 “A Journey of Study and Application,” in Landscape, Middle East, October 2008 “Hashim Sarkis designs for Lebanese communities by collaborating with them,” by Jessica

Dheere, in Architectural Record, October 2008 “In from the Sea, Traditional fishermen in Lebanon land a custom-designed community,” by

Stephen Zacks, Metropolis, September 2008 “Hashim Sarkis: Conversation on Architecture,” Architecture Boston, Volume 11, Number 2,

March/April 2008, 10 “A Celebration of Landscape and Simple Forms—Architect Hashim Sarkis” in Al Benaa,

Number 205, November 2007, Saudi Arabia “Balloon Landing Park,” in Arabian Design, (Stuttgart: DAAB, Fusion Publishing, 2007) Heart of Beirut, Samir Khalaf, (London: Saqi Books, 2006) “An Architect Strikes (Olive) Oil in the Middle East,” in 02138, spring 2007 “Bab Tebbaneh School for Working Children,” in The Architect, January 2007 “After a Brief Pause, the Show Goes on in Lebanon,” in Business Week, February 2, 2007 “Martyrs Square Competition,” in Domes, Number 40, May 2006, Athens, 84-89 “A Unique View of Beirut from 300 Meters Up,” by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in The

Daily Star, June 23, 2005 “Developing Worlds: Lebanon,” Mare Nostrum News, (Rotterbam, The 2nd Rotterdam

Architectural Biennale, 2005) “Balloon Landing Park,” in Harvard Design Magazine, spring 2005 “Out of Context,” in Architectural Design, December 2004

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“A Spectacle of Anticipation: Building the Lebanon of the Future: Seeking to Inspire Rather than Impose, an Architect Blends Design with Development Issues,” by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in The Daily Star, September 1, 2004

“Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in Work in Progress #8, May 2004, Rhode

Island School of Design, “Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in Harvard Design Magazine, Summer 1999 “Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in Ad-Diyar, July 29, 1999

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

The Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies Harvard Graduate School of Design July 2002- present Visiting Professor Metropolis Masters Program Barcelona June 2004 Associate Professor of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design January 2001 - June 2002 Assistant Professor of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design January 1998 - December 2000 Lecturer and Design Critic Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 1996 - Spring 1997 Visiting Lecturer Universidad Metropolitana Caracas, Venezuela April 1997 Instructor Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 1995 -Spring 1996

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Visiting Design Critic Rhode Island School of Design Department of Architecture Spring 1994 Visiting Lecturer American University of Beirut School of Arts and Sciences, Civilizations Sequence Program Summers 1991 - 1993 Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Fall 1989 -Spring 1992 Research Associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning Fall 1990-Spring 1992, Spring 1993 Visiting Design Critic Yale University School of Art and Architecture Fall 1990 Researcher Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Foundation March 1989 - August 1990

Academic Administrative Positions at the Harvard University GSD Chair of Research Advancement Initiative/Director of Research Labs Harvard Graduate School of Design 2010-2014 Director of New Geographies Lab Harvard Graduate School of Design 2010-present Director of the Aga Khan Program Harvard Graduate School of Design July 2002-present

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Director of the Masters of Design Studies and Doctor of Design Programs Harvard Graduate School of Design July 2002-June 2005 Acting Director of the Masters of Design Studies and Doctor of Design Programs Harvard Graduate School of Design July 2001-July 2002 Harvard University-Wide Committees Harvard Global Institute Advisory Board 2013-present Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program 2013-present François Xavier-Bagnoud Center For Health and Human Rights Faculty Advisor 2010 - present Center for Middle Eastern Studies Steering Committee 2003 - present PhD Committee in Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning 2006 - present Arts Task Force (Head of Spaces for the Arts, subcommittee) 2008 - 2009 University Committee on International Projects and Sites 2006 - 2013 Africa Map Project 2008 -2011 Advisory Boards outside Harvard University Muqarnas, Cambridge, MA, 2013-present Le Visiteur, Société Française des Architectes Paris, 2010-present

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Université Paris Mallaquais, Laboratoire des Infrastuctures Paris, 2009-2013 American University of Beirut, School of Architecture Beirut, 2010

PUBLICATIONS Books

Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969), co-editor with Eric Mumford (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)

Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis, forewords by

Roger Owen and Ghassan Tueni, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2003) Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Revival of Mat Building, CASE #2, editor, (Munich

and Cambridge, Mass.: Prestel and Harvard Design School, 2001) Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City, co-

editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Munich: Prestel, 1998) Manuscripts of Books:

The School of Flexibility, Norman High School and Architectural Experimentation in the 1950s, (completed)

Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic (in preparation)

Beirut Normal (in preparation) Monograph on Hashim Sarkis Studios (in preparation)

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Book Series: Design and Development Series: produced by Aga Khan Program, Harvard GSD Books in the series: Landscapes of Development, edited by Panyiota Pyla, 2013 Dubai: The Superlative City, edited by Ahmad Kanna, 2013 Desert Tourism: Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development, edited by Virginie Lefebvre with Aziza Chaouni, 2012 The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City, edited by Susan Miller and Mauro Bertagnin A Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir at the Gates of Europe, edited by Hashim Sarkis with Neyran Turan, 2010 CASE: publication series on significant case studies in architecture and urban design, Executive Editor, with Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte, Series Editors, and Melissa Vaughn, Managing Editor, produced by the Harvard Design School and published by Prestel, Munich Books in the series Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, edited by Jorge Francisco Liernur, 2007 Brasilia’s Superquadra, edited by Fares el-Dahdah, 2005 Lafayette Park, Detroit, edited by Charles Waldheim, 2004 Sendai Mediatheque, edited by Ron Witte, 2002 Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital, edited by Hashim Sarkis, 2001 Downsview Park Competition, edited by Julia Czerniak, 2001 Chapters in Books

“Bleu Outremer: The Displacement of Geography in Le Corbusier’s Urbanism,” in

L’invention d’un architecte: Le Voyage en Orient et Le Corbusier, edited by Roberta Amirante, Burcu Kutucuoglu, Panayotis Tournikiotis, and Yannis Tsianis, (Paris: Editions La Villette et la Fondation Le Corbusier, 2013)

“Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960,” in A Second Modernism, edited by Arindam

Dutta, (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2013)

"It's Istanbul (not Globalization),” in Living in the Endless City, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2011)

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“Le Corbusier and the Paradoxical Promise of Flexibility” in Structuralism Reloaded, Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism, edited by Tomás Valena with Tom Avermaete and Georg Vrach- liotis, (Stuttgart: Axel Menges, 2011)

“Flexibility to Resilience,” in Making the Metropolitan Landscape, Standing Firm on

Middle Ground, edited by Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber (London and New York: Routledge, 2009)

“Civic Pride,” in Aleppo, The Rehabilitation of the Old City, The Veronica Green Rudge

Prize 2005, edited by Joan Busquets, (Cambridge: Harvard Design School, 2005) “Dubai: The City of Many Cities,” with Nasser Abulhasan, in The Arab City: Amman,

Beirut, and Dubai, edited by George Arbid, (Beirut: ESCWA Publications, 2005) “A Vital Void: Reconstructions of Downtown Beirut,” in The Resilient City, edited by

Lawrence Vale and Thomas Campanella, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) “On the Beauty of Athens,” in The Contemporary Greek City, edited by Yannis Aesopos and

Yorgos Simeoforidis, (Athens: Metapolis, 2001) “On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics,” in The Pragmatist Imagination, Thinking

About Things in the Making, edited by Joan Ockman, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)

“As-saha al-mu’ajjala,” (The Postponed Square), in El Bourj, Place de la Liberté et Porte

du Levant, edited by Ghassan Tueni and Fares Sassine, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2000) “Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society,” in Promise of

Multiculturalism, edited by George Katsiaficas and Tedros Kiros, (London and New York: Routledge, 1998)

“Territorial Claims,” in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in

Lebanon, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, 1993)

“Chronology of the Urban History of Beirut,” with Samir Khalaf, in Recovering Beirut,

Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, 1993)

Introductions to Books

“The Architecture of the World: Oekoumenos Redux,” Introduction to Global Design,

edited by Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim, (Munich and London: Prestel, forthcoming)

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“Preface,” Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul at the Gates of Europe, (Aga Khan

Program, Harvard Design School, 2009) “Handle with Care,” in The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim

Mediterranean City, edited by Susan Miller and Mauro Bertagnin “Society of Forms: On the Recent Work of Vincent James Architects Associates,”

Introduction to monograph on VJAA, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)

“Tumertekin, the Stranger,” in Han Tumertekin, Recent Work, (Aga Khan Program, Harvard

Design School, 2006)

Encyclopedia Entries

“Beirut,” in Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, edited by Stephen Sennott, (New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 2004)

“Kevin Lynch,” in Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, edited by Stephen Sennott,

(New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 2004) Studio Publications

Makina/Medina, co-editor with Aziza Chaouni, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, forthcoming 2014)

Two Squares: Martyrs Square Downtown Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul, co-editor

with Mark Dwyer and Pars Kibarer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2006)

One Body, Two Wings: Suzhou, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard

Graduate School of Design, 1997) Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe,

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997) Open City: Rebuilding Downtown Beirut’s Waterfront, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe,

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1996)

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Research Reports

The World According to Architecture, report on workshops conducted at the New Geographies Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2011

Downtown Real Estate Development in the Middle East, report on new urban redevelopment

processes for the rehabilitation of downtown areas in the Middle East with case studies in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, with Ralph Gakenheimer, (Cambridge, MA: MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995)

Rebuilding the Residential Structure of Lebanon, a report on the problems and solutions for

the rehabilitation of the housing sector in Beirut, with Ralph Gakenheimer and Omar Razzaz, (Camrbidge, MA: Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, 1993)

Journal, Magazine, Exhibition Catalogues, and Newspaper Articles

“Assem Salam, or the Architect as a Tragic Hero in the Epic of the City,” in An-Nahar Cultural Supplement, April 12, 2014 “Let Beirut Choose History Over a Highway,” in The Daily Star, April 5, 2014 “Ashrafieh Opposes a Bridge Too Far,” in The Daily Star, March 5, 2014 “Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History for an Emerging Aesthetic,” in Harvard Design Magazine, Spring 2014 “The Sea of Scales and Segments,” discussion with Naor Ben-Yahoyada and Michael Herzfeld, in New Geographies 5, The Mediterranean, 2013 “The World According to Architecture,” in New Geographies, Issue # 4, The Scales of the Earth, 2011 “Une Question de Géographie,” in Le Visiteur, Number 15, 2010

“It’s Istanbul (Not Globalization),” in Istanbul, City of Intersections, Urban Age, London

School of Economics, November 2009, 14-15

“Alternative A,” Op-Arch piece in Journal of Architectural Education, May 2009 “New Geographics,” in New Geographies: Design, Agency, Territory, Issue #0, 2008 “Tectonic Worlds,” in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Tenth Award Cycle, 2005-

2007, Harvard Graduate School of Design, exhibition catalogue, 2008 “Rebuilding Lebanon: The Human Dimension,” in The Daily Star, October 6, 2006

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“Sky-Bound: On the Recent Work of Michael Maltzan,” Exhibition Catalogue of Lift, exhibition of projects by Michael Maltzan at Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design, November 2003

“What Can We Do? A Symposium on Sustaining Nature,” with several participants, in

Harvard Design Magazine,#18, spring/summer 2003, 46-61 “Beirut, the Novel,” in Parachute #108, 2002, 132-143 “Constants in Motion: Le Corbusier’s “Rule of Movement” at the Carpenter Center,” in

Perspecta 33, The Yale Architecture Journal, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), 114-125

“On the Brink: The Recent Work of Scott Cohen,” in A+U, #368, May 2001, 82-86 “Scott Cohen and the Rule of Error,” in Newsline, Volume 13, Number 1, Columbia

University, 2001 “Fi thil Pierre el-Khoury,” (In the Shadow of Pierre el-Khoury: Book Review), in An-Nahar

Cultural Supplement, March 25, 2000 “Al-malika wal-turath: hawla mawdu’ al-mufatha alal-turath al-mi’mari,” (The Queen and

Heritage: On the Preservation Controversy), in An-Nahar Daily, Lebanon, December 4, 1999

“Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society,” in New

Political Science, Number 38/39, Winter/Spring 1997, 153-163 “Hadathatun touhi wala tuhaymin” (A Modernism that Inspires without Imposing: On the

Work of Rafael Moneo) in An-Nahar Daily, October 8, 1997 “The Two-Tiered Image: An Architectural Proposition,” in Circo, Injertos 05, June 1997 “Towards an Environmental Consciousness in Architecture,” in Hurriyat, Number 6, spring

1997 “Pseudo-City,” in An Nahar Cultural Supplement, October 21, 1994 "Al-bee’a al-madanniyah fi zama al-I’mar,” (The Urban Environment in the Post-War Era),

in An-Nahar Cultural Supplement, Beirut, April 10, 1993 “Perspective, Its Epistemic Grounding, and the Sky,” in Harvard Architecture Review 9,

Rizzoli Press, New York, 1993 “The Problem of the Angels,” in Thresholds, 1992

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SELECTED INTERVIEWS:

Bespoke, Middle East, September 2013

Vatan, Turkey, 2013

CNBC Arabia, 2013

L’Orient- Le Jour, Beirut, 2012

L’Officiel, Middle East, 2011

Harvard Gazette, 2011 and 2009

Veja, Brazil, February 2007

Metropolis Magazine, March 2006

An-Nahar, June 2003

The Boston Herald, August 2001

The Smithsonian Magazine, April 2000

Boston Globe Magazine, December 14, 1997

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Newsletter, Fall 1997

The World Today, BBC and NPR, August 1994

TOPICS OF STUDIOS AND DESIGN WORKSHOPS

“Maydan: Delineating the Edges of Beyazit Square, Istanbul” Option studio, with Erkin Ozay, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2013 “On the Order of Objects: Mediating between Monuments, Museums, and Megaliths in the Historic Center of Istanbul” Option studio, with Erkin Ozay, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2013

“Between Contour and Silhouette: Istanbul’s Suleymaniye Complex” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2011 “The Geography of a Bridge: Istanbul’s Golden Horn Bridge” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2010

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“The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Geographic Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2009 “The Architecture of Geography: Istanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic Condition” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2007

“Makina/Medina: On the Relationship between Geography and Event in the City of Fez, Morocco” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2007 “Intermodal Istanbul: On the Possible intersections between an underground train, a ferry terminal, a train station, an archaeological park, and a public square in Sirkeci Square” Option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2005 “The Mediterranean Cityscape: The Case of Izmir” Workshop, Harvard GSD, Fall 2004 “Square One: Martyrs’ Square, Downtown Beirut” Option studio, Harvard GSD, Spring 2004 “A Field of Schools: Rethinking the Relationship between School and City in San Diego” Option studio, Harvard GSD, Fall 2001 Housing Studio Core studio for second year students, Harvard GSD, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, and Spring 2001 “A Regional Plan for the City of Sidon, South Lebanon” Workshop with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard GSD, Fall 1999 “Rome: Crossing the City” Option studio with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard GSD, Spring 1998 “Suzhou: One Body and Two Wings” Option studio with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard GSD, Spring 1997 “Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens” Option studio with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard GSD, Spring 1996 “Open City: Rebuilding Beirut’s Downtown Waterfront” Option studio with Edward Helfeld and Peter G. Rowe, Harvard GSD, Spring 1995 "Open Configurations" Graduate seminar/workshop on design methodology investigating the means and methods of architecture production through case studies. MIT, Department of Architecture, Fall 1990

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“Perspective as Practice” Graduate seminar/workshop on the theory and application of perspective in architecture design. MIT, Department of Architecture, Spring 1990 “Beirut Workshop: Architecture and Urban Contexts: Traditions, Conflicts, and Change” Advanced workshop for graduate students, with Masood Khan and Klaus Herdeg. MIT Department of Architecture, Fall 1991

TOPICS OF LECTURE COURSES AND SEMINARS “Geo-Architecture: Le Corbusier and the Territorial Challenge to Architecture,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Fall 2012 and Spring 2014 “Spaces for the Arts at Harvard” Workshop on the university’s needs for arts facilities, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Spring 2008 “New Geographies: The Challenges of Shaping Context by Design” Seminar course on an emerging geographic paradigm in design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008 and Fall 2006

“Developing Worlds: The Challenges of Development to Urban Planning and Design in Latin American and the Middle Eastern from the Truman Doctrine to the Present” Lecture course on the impact of development policies on Latin American and Middle Eastern architecture and urban planning. Harvard GSD, Spring 2006, Fall 2003, Spring 2002 “Practices in Democracy 2” Lecture course on political reform movements in Europe after WWII and their impact on architecture and urbanism. Harvard GSD, Fall 2000 “Practices in Democracy” Lecture course American architecture and urbanism after WWII in relation to political reform movements. Harvard GSD, Spring 1999, Spring 1998, Fall 1996, and Fall 1995 “Green Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness in Modern Architecture and Urbanism since Patrick Geddes” Lecture course. Harvard GSD, Spring 2004, Spring 2003 (independent tutorial), Spring 2001 Fall 1999 “Constructing Vision: A History and Theory of Optical Applications in Architecture” Lecture course. Harvard GSD, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2003, Fall 2001, Spring 2000 and Fall 1998

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“The Making of the Modern Capital City” Lecture course on the urban history of Beirut during the French Mandate (1920-1943). American University of Beirut, Civilizations Sequence Program, Summer 1993 and 1992 “Cognitive Form: Problems in Perception and Architecture” Seminar on contemporary problems in architectural design addressed through both the perceptualist and the linguistic models of design thinking. MIT, Department of Architecture, Spring 1991 "Reconstruction in the Middle East” Graduate seminar with Ralph Gakenheimer and Fred Moavenzadeh, offered jointly between the departments of Civil Engineering, Architecture, and City Planning at MIT, Spring 1992 and Spring 1991

ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROJECTS “The School for the Year 2030” Research project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education on the future of education spaces, 2010-ongoing “New Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean” Research project at the New Geographies Lab, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, June 2006-ongoing “Changing Urbanization Patterns in Turkey” Research project at the Harvard GSD funded by the Aga Khan Program, April 2004-June 2005 “Urban Schools in America” Principal investigator, research project at Harvard GSD on the design issues facing school designers in three main American cities, funded by the Junior Faculty Research Grant, March 2000-ongoing “History of School Architecture in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s” Principal investigator, research project at Harvard Graduate School of Design, funded by the Graham Foundation for the Arts, the CRSS Center, Texas A&M University and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1999 “Projecting Beirut: A Data Base on the Reconstruction of the Metropolitan District of Beirut” Research project at the Harvard GSD, with Peter G. Rowe, 1998-2000

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“Real Estate Holding Companies in the Middle East” Research project at MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; on the concept, operation, and prospects of real estate holding and development companies in the Middle East, funded by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Ralph Gakenheimer, principal investigator; Fall 1993-Spring 1994 “Rebuilding the Residential Sector of Beirut” Joint research project between MIT, School of Architecture and Planning and the American University of Beirut on the reconstruction of the housing sector in Lebanon; William Porter and Ralph Gakenheimer, principal investigators, Fall 1991-Spring 1993

PUBLIC LECTURES

“Keynote Address” in “East West Central 02: Re-scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design 1960–80 Rescaling the Environment,” in conference at ETH, Zurich, forthcoming, November 28-29, 2014

“The School of Flexibility” Harvard University, March 7, 2014 “Inscription: On Writing on Buildings” Harvard University, conference on Ornament, April 2012 “Recent Work,” Discussion with Young-Ho Chang moderated by David Van Lier Shenzhen Biennale, December 2011 “A Second Functionalism” Harvard University, Humanities Center, November 9, 2011

“Le monde selon l’architecture” Ecole Speciale d’Archietcture, Paris, October 6, 2011 “Bleu Outremer” Bilgi University conference on Le Corbusier’s trip to Istanbul, October 7, 2011

“The World According to Architecture” keynote speech, the Global Design New York University Symposium, May 26, 2011 “Recent Work” University of Virginia, April 27, 2011

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“Working Grounds” MIT, February 24, 2011 “Recent Work” Kansas State University, April 21, 2010 “Beirut Normal” Brown University, Providence, April 5, 2010 “L’architecture en tant que géographie,” Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, March 17, 2010 “Learning from Beirut” Canadian Centre for Architecture, March 11, 2010 “A Question of Geography: Projects Out of Context” North Carolina State University, School of Design, November 23, 2009 “Many Mediterraneans: Istanbul and the Ideal of a Mediterranean City,” In The Urban Age Istanbul conference organized by the London School of Economics, November 7, 2009 Academic Year Inaugural Lecture Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, September 21, 2009 “Une Question de Géographie” French Society of Architects, Paris, June 11, 2009 “Equality in Difference: The Housing Project for the Fishermen of Tyre” Harvard Cultural Agency Program, April 22, 2009 “Buildings for Agricultural Industry” Workshop on the Workplace, organized by the Aga Khan Award and Bilgi University, Istanbul, January 2009 “Recent Work” MIT School of Architecture, October 20, 2008 “Reimagining Risk: Beirut” The Architectural League, New York, March 7, 2008 “The Architecture of Geography” Conversations with Architects Series at the Boston Society of Architects, November 29, 2007

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“On Writing On Ornament On Buildings” Given at “Ornament: Islamic Traditions, Contemporary Practice,” conference at the University of Toronto, December 1, 2007 “Recent Work” Bilgi University, Istanbul, October 2, 2007 “Territorial Tensions” Constantinos Doxiadis, Space and Progress, conference, at the Bennaki Foundation Museum, Athens, Greece December 1-2, 2006 “Rebuilding Beirut” The Future of Beirut, workshop organized by the Forum for Urban Design, New York, November 10, 2006 “Beirut by Law” Global Cities lecture series at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, June 13, 2006 “Intense Edges, Open Spaces” Affluent Cities conference at the American University of Beirut, May 13, 2006 “Recent Work” Istanbul Technical University, November 22, 2005 “Recent Work” Harvard Graduate School of Design Public Lecture Series, November 5, 2005 “Two Squares” Rhode Island School of Design Public Lecture Series, May 5, 2005 Keynote Address Conference on Public Sphere, American University of Beirut, October 24, 2004 “Developing Worlds” The Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University, October 24, 2004 “Flexibilization” Urban Age, London School of Economics, conference in New York, February 23, 2005 “Constructing Vision” Four Lectures at Metropolis Masters Program, Barcelona, June 16-19, 2004 “Out of Context: Projects for Lebanon” Reconstructing Identity, conference at the Harvard GSD, April 9, 2004 “Reverberations of a Square” Yale University School of Architecture, March 2004

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“On Practice and Teaching” Two lectures at The University of San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador, November 27, 2003 “Development and Design” Conference at Yale University School of Architecture, April 4, 2003 “Beirut, Beirut” The Resilient City, Trauma, Recovery, and Remembrance, MIT Public Symposium on urban reconstruction, April 1, 2002 “Developing Worlds” Department of Architecture Lectures Series, Harvard GSD, December 4, 2001 “Three Projects for the Tripoli Region” Conference on the Urban Planning of the City of Tripoli, North Lebanon, sponsored by the American University of Beirut, March 27, 2001 “The Great Mosque of Cordoba” Buildings, Texts, and Contexts, core history course, Harvard Graduate School of Design, October 2000 “On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics” The Pragmatist Imagination, conference at the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, May 1 and 2, 2000 “Recent Work” Public lecture at the Boston Society of Architects, April 10, 2000 “Ecology, Right, and Risk” Public lecture at The Architectural League, New York, March 16, 2000 “Designing for NGOs: Recent Work” Public lecture at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, March 15, 2000 “Schools for Tomorrow: Now and Then” Public lecture at Northeastern University, School of Architecture, February 10, 2000 “Architecture and Democracy: A Manifesto” American Cities symposium at Washington University, St Louis, March 1999 “Doxiadis’ Ekistic Plan for Lebanon” Columbia University, School of Architecture, September 25, 1998 “Preventive Measures: Planning vs. Politics in Beirut 1958” The Middle Eastern City: New Perspectives, sponsored by the Centers for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, March 6-8, 1998

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“The Political Culture of Fifties Architecture in the United States” Grafting, conference at Santander University, Spain, July 1997 “Images of the City: Panoramas, Prospects, and Cognitive Maps” Public lecture at the Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela, March 13, 1997 “Kevin Lynch at Government Center” Cities in the Making, symposium at the California Center for Arts and Crafts, March 29 - 30, 1996 “When Schools Were Modern: Educational Facilities in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s” Department of Architecture Lectures Series, Harvard GSD, March 13, 1996 “Apartment Buildings: A Genealogy of Urban Forms” Workshop on The Phenomenology of City Life sponsored by the New York University Committee on Theory and Culture, December 16, 1994 “The Same Level of Confusion: On Reading Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City in light of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road” Washington University, St. Louis, October 13, 1994 “Disoriented, circa 1959” In “Hypotheses,” on Kevin Lynch and the socio-political context of the 1950’s, in conference at Princeton University, School of Architecture, April 16, 1994 “Pseudo-City” Place and Right, Urban Forum workshop on the relation between human rights, identity and place, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, September 11-13, 1992 “Territorial Claims” Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, workshop organized by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, at the Center for International Studies, MIT, School of Humanities, September 27 - 28, 1991 “Beirut, Berlin, Belfast, and Beijing” American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, January 19, 1991 “Perspective, Its Epistemic Grounding, and the Sky” On Research, symposium organized by Harvard Architecture Review, Harvard GSD, October 6, 1990 “Mrs. Fields Seen from the Plane (On the Idea of a Total View in Architecture)” MIT, Public Lecture Series, October 7, 1989

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CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS “The Space Between Development and Conservation,” Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design, with Natalia Escobar, spring 2014 “The Mediterranean: Region by Design,” Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design, co-organizer with Nikolaos Katsikis, spring 2013 “Risk and the City: The Case of Istanbul” Workshop, Harvard Graduate School of Design, organizer, October 13, 2009 “The History of the Future” Colloquium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, co-organizer with Timothy Hyde, May 11-12, 2009 “The Aga Khan Award, 10th Cycle” Harvard Graduate School of Design, curator, March 31-May 22, 2008 “Turkish Triangle: Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir at the Gates of Europe” Harvard Graduate School of Design, Aga Khan Program, co-organizer, April 25-26, 2005 “Aleppo: New Perspectives on the Old City” Aga Khan Program, Harvard GSD, organizer, April 13, 2005 “Urban Age” Conference series organized by The London School of Economics, Cities Program, 2004-2006 “Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969)” Conference and exhibition, Harvard GSD, co-organizer, October 2003 “Architecture in Communication: Challenge and Opportunity in Building the Information Age” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference, chair of sub-topic on “Ecology and Design,” New Orleans, April 14-16, 2002 “Housing in Chile” Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, respondent, March 24, 2002 “Urban Designs” Conference at the University of Toronto, School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, panelist and moderator, February 4 and 5, 2000 “Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City” Conference and exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, co-organizer with Peter Rowe, April 1997. Parts of the exhibition have been on display at the Storefront for Art and

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Architecture, New York, February 1997; Seoul Korea, Summer 1997; University of Toronto, October 1997; Boston French Library, March 1998; and Columbia University School of Architecture, fall 1998 “The Legacy of the Corporate Firm: The Case of CRS” Paul Kennon Symposium, panel chairman in Architecture after Individualism, Rice University, April 4 and 5, 1997 “Tafuri’s Ricerca: Drawing as Research” Exhibition at the Harvard GSD Gallery, October 1997 “Where We Are” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference, evaluating reader, March 1992 “Demarcating Lines” Urban design and planning, conference and exhibition on the reconstruction of Beirut with projects by young architects addressing the post-war physical environment of Beirut, curator, MIT Museum and American University of Beirut Museum, MIT Museum, Summer 1991 “When Schools Were Modern: Educational Facilities in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s” Traveling exhibition, curator, at Harvard GSD, spring 1996; Rice University, April 1997; Texas A&M University, September 1997; The Graham Foundation, Chicago, January 1999: and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Spring 2000

RESEARCH GRANTS Kuwait Foundation, (research on schools architecture in Kuwait), Harvard University, 2014 Mellon Foundation, (university wide grant for research and teaching on the humanities and urbanism) Harvard University, 2013 Graham Foundation Grant (as advisor for New Geographies journal), 2008 and 2011 Graham Foundation Grant (for CASE series), 2002 Junior Faculty Research Grant, (for research on schools design) 1999 CRS Center Grant, Texas A & M, (for research on schools design) 1996 Graham Foundation Grant, (for research on schools design) 1996

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TEACHING AWARDS

Teaching Award, Urban Design, Harvard GSD Student Forum, 2014 Teaching Award, Urban Design, Harvard GSD Student Forum, 2009 Teaching Award, Harvard GSD Student Forum, 2003 Outstanding Teacher Award, Harvard University, 2003