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Curriculum Vitae
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Education |
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Harvard
University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Harvard
University, Graduate School of Design Rhode
Island School Of Design |
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Academic Experience |
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The Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture
Visiting Lecturer
Associate Professor of Architecture Assistant
Professor of Architecture Lecturer
and Design Critic Visiting
Lecturer Instructor
Research
Associate Visting
Design Critic Visiting
Lecturer Lecturer
Visting
Design Critic Researcher
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Director of the Aga Khan Program Director of the Doctor of Design Studies Program Director of the Master of Design Studies Program Acting Director of the Master and Doctor of Design Studies Programs |
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Professional Experience |
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Architectural Practice Established in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Beirut, Lebanon in 1998, Hashim Sarkis, Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design has been engaged in design projects of various scales ranging from master planning of urban areas to landscape design and in program from mixed-use to institutional to residential. Projects also range in location from the United States to the Middle East and from rural areas to urban contexts. The practice focuses on synthesizing between the landscape, urban, and architectural aspects of every project, advocating a geographic position that heightens the role of design in addressing and shaping context. The work has received several awards and had been published in various books and journals including The Phaidon 21st Century Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, Metropolis Magazine, Architectural Record, The Architect, Architectural Design, and Harvard Design Magazine. In 2005, the office represented Lebanon in the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale and in 2007, the Bab Tebbaneh School in Tripoli, Lebanon was recognized with a Progressive Architecture Award citation. In 2008, the office received a BSA Design Award for the Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre project. |
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Studio & Design Workshop Topics |
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 Old City of Fez, option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, with Aziza Chaouni, 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, with Mark Dwyer, Harvard Graduate School of Design, spring 2004 A Field of Schools: Rethinking the Relationship between School and City in San Diego, option studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, fall 2001 Housing Studio, core studio for second year students, Harvard Graduate School of Design, spring 1999, spring 2000, and spring 2001 A Regional Plan for the City of Sidon, South Lebanon, workshop with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, fall 1999 Rome:
Crossing the City Suzhou:
One Body and Two Wings Isopolis:
Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens
Open
City: Rebuilding Beirut's Downtown Waterfront
Open
Configurations Perspective
as Practice Beirut
Workshop: Architecture and Urban Contexts: Traditions, Conflicts, and
Change A
School of Architecture for the Year 2000 |
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Lecture Courses & Seminar Topics |
| New Geographies, Design and the Challenges of Shaping Context, seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Design, fall 2006 and spring 2008 Developing Worlds: The Challenges
of Development to Planning and Design in Latin America and the
Middle East from the Truman Doctrine to the Present Practices in Democracy Green
Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness in Modern Architecture
since Patrick Geddes Constructing
Vision: A History and Theory of Optical Applications in Architecture
Cognitive
Form: Problems in Perception and Architecture
The
Making of the Modern Capital City Exercises
for the Eyes Reconstruction
in the Middle East |
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Academic Research Projects |
Spaces for the Arts at Harvard, spring 2008 New Geographies, research project sponsored by the Aga Khan Program of Activities at the Harvard Univeristy Graduate School of Design, June 2006-ongoing Urbanization in Turkey, a research project on the changing patterns of urbanization in Turkey and the relationship between rural and urban development, sponsored by the Aga Khan Program of Activities at the GSD, spring 2004-ongoing Urban Schools in America, principal investigator, research project at Harvard Design School 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 Graduate School of Design, with Peter G. Rowe, 1998-2000 Real
Estate Holding Companies in the Middle East Rebuilding
the Residential Sector of Beirut |
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Public Lectures |
“Recent Work,” at MIT, Department of Architecture, forthcoming, October 2008 “Reimagining Risk: Beirut, ” at the Architectural League, New York, with Amale Andraos and Ziad Jamaleddine, March 7, 2008 “On Writing On Buildings On Ornament,” Keynote address at symposium on Ornament: Islamic Origins, Contemporary Practice, the University of Toronto, December 1, 2007 “Recent Work,” at Bilgi University, Istanbul, October 2, 2007 “The Architecture of Geography,” at the Boston Society of Architects, November 29, 2007 "Beirut by Law," in Global Cities lecture series at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, June 13, 2006 "Intense Edges, Open Spaces," in 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," London School of Economics conference in New York, February 23, 2005. “Recent Work,” lecture at the Master Metropolis Program, Barcelona, June 19, 2004 “Design and Development,” American Univesity of Beirut, April 1, 2004 ”Out of Context,” in Reconstructing Identity, conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design, April 8, 2004 ”Reverberations of a Square,” Yale University School of Architecture, March 2004 “Kevin Lynch, Data Man,” in Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969), conference, Harvard Graduate School of Design, October 2003 "Beirut, Beirut," in The Resilient City, Trauma, Recovery, and Remembrance, MIT Public Symposium on urban reconstruction, forthcoming, April 1, 2002 "Developing Worlds," in Department of Architecture Lectures Series, Harvard Graduate School of Design, December 4, 2001 "Three Projects for the Tripoli Region," in 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," in Buildings, Texts, and Contexts, core history course, Harvard Graduate School of Design, October 2000 "On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics," in 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," in American Cities symposium at Washington University, St Louis, March 1999 "Doxiadis' Ekistic Plan for Lebanon," at Columbia University, School of Architecture, September 25, 1998 "Preventive Measures: Planning vs. Politics in Beirut 1958," in 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 "The Political Culture of Fifties Architecture in the United States," in 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," in Cities in the Making, symposium at the California Center for Arts and Crafts, March 29 and 30, 1996 "When Schools Were Modern: Educational Facilities in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's," Department of Architecture Lectures Series, Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 13, 1996 "Apartment Buildings: A Genealogy of Urban Forms," in 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," at 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," in 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," in 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 and 28, 1991 "Beirut, Berlin, Belfast, and Beijing," in 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 Graduate School of Design, 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 |
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“The Aga Khan Award, Tenth Cycle,” Harvard Graduate School of Design, Aga Khan Program, March 30-May 21, 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 Graduate School of Design, 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 "Urban Design: Practices, Pedagogies, Premises," conference at Columbia University, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, participant, April 5 and 6, 2002 "Urban
Designs," conference at the University of Toronto, School of
Architecture, Landscape, and Design, panelist and moderator, "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 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," the Paul Kennon Symposium, panel chairman in Architecture after Individualism, Rice University, April 4 and 5, 1997 "Tafuri's Ricerca: Drawing as Research," exhibition at GSD Gallery, October 1997 "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 1950's and 1960's," 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 |
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Contact Information |
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email: hsarkis@gsd.harvard.edu
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