A. Hashim Sarkis
Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design

 

 

 

Publications


 

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Publications and Research Reports
Books Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis, foreword by Roger Owen, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2003)
  Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the Revival of Mat Building, CASE #2, (Munich: Prestel, 2001)
  Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Munich: Prestel, 1998)
  Books in Preparation:
  Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969), co-editor with Eric Mumford, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, forthcoming).
  When Schools Went Modern, Primary and Secondary Educational Facilities in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s
Book Series CASE, a GSD/Prestel Publication Series on Significant Case Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, executive editor, with Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte, forthcoming, September 2001
Books in the series:
  Downsview Park Competition, edited by Julia Czerniak, 2001
  Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital, edited by Hashim Sarkis, 2001
  Sendai Mediatheque, edited by Ron Witte, 2002
  Brasilia's Superquadra, edited by Fares el-Dahdah, 2004
  La FayettePark, Detroit, edited by Charles Waldheim, 2005
  Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, edited by Jorge Francisco Liernur, 2006.
Chapters 
in Books
"A Society of Forms," introduction to Vincent James, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)

  "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, (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, forthcoming 2004)
  "On the Beauty of Athens," in The Contemporary Greek City, edited by Yannis Aesopos and Yorgos Simeoforidis, (Athens: Metapolis, 2001),153-157
  "On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics, in The Pragmatist Imagination, Thinking About Things in the Making, edited by Casey Blake, Joan Ockman, and John Rajchman, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), 92-103
  "As-saha al-mu'ajjala," (The Postponed Square), in El Bourj, Place de la Libert et Porte du Levant, edited by Ghassan Tueni and Fares Sassine, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2000), 152-157
  Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society, in Promise of Multiculturalism, edited by George Katsiaficas and Tedros Kiros, Routledge, London and New York, 1998
  Territorial Claims, in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, workshop proceedings, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, E.J. Brill Publishers, New York and Amsterdam, 1993
  Chronology of the Urban History of Beirut, with Samir Khalaf, in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, workshop proceedings, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, E.J. Brill Publishers, New York and Amsterdam, 1993
Design Work 
Published
Daemus, Athens, “Martyrs Square Competition,”  2006
  The Daily Star, "A Unique View of Beirut from 300 Meters Up," June 23, 2005
  Mare Nostrum News, The 2nd Rotterdam Architectural Biennale, May 2005
  Harvard Design Magazine, "Balloon Landing Park, Beirut" Spring  2005
  Architectural Design, December 2004
  Work in Progress, #9, "Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,"  May 2004
  The Daily Star, "A Spectacle of Anticipation," March 23, 2004
  Harvard Design Magazine: “Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” Summer 1999, 87
  Ad-Diyar Daily: “Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre,” in Beirut, 29 July, 1999, 9
  Axis, vol. 67, May/June 1997
  UIA Catalogue, Barcelona, 1996
Studio 
Publications
Two Squares: Martyrs Square Downtown Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul, editor with Mark Dwyer and Pars Kibarer, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Design School and Aga Khan Program, 2006
  Square One: Martyrs’ Square, Downtown Beirut, co-editor with Mark Dwyer, Aga Khan Program of Activities, Harvard Graduate School of Design, forthcoming, 2004
  One Body, Two Wings: Suzhou, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard Graduate School of Design,  1997
  Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997
  Open City: Rebuilding Downtown Beiruts Waterfront, co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1996
Research 
Reports
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, 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, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, 1993
Journal, 
Magazine,
Newspaper 

Articles, and Exhibition Catalogues
"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
  "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
  “Beirut the Novel,” in Parachute 108, 2002
  "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, edited by George Katsiaficas and Tedros Kiros, Routledge, London and New York, 1998
  "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, June 1997
  Towards an Environmental Consciousness in Architecture, in Hurriyat, number 6, spring 1997
  Pseudo-City, in An Nahar Daily, 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 Daily, 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
Introductions
to Books:
"Society of Forms: On the Recent Work of Vincent James Architects Associates," Introduction to monograph on VJAA, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)
  Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul at the Gates of Europe, (Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, forthcoming 2007)
  Han Tumertekin, Recent Work, (Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, 2006)