Publications
Books
Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969)
Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis
Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the Revival of Mat Building
Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City
Books in Preparation
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
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, 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, (London and New York: Routledge, 1998)
"Territorial Claims," in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, workshop proceedings, 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, workshop proceedings, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, 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, 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)