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Hani Rashid, Asymptote Architecture (USA)
Egyptian-born Hani Rashid is the co-founder of the award-winning, New York-based practice Asymptote Architecture. Rashid established Asymptote together with Lise Anne Couture in 1989. Their practice has consistently been in the forefront of technological innovation in the field of architecture and design and garnered praise for visionary building designs, master plans, digital environments and art installations, as well as exhibition and product design.
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In 2000 Hani Rashid co-represented the United States at the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale, and in 2004 he was awarded the Chair of the Cátedra Luis Barragán in Monterrey, Mexico. Also in 2004, Rashid and Couture were chosen as the design architects for the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale and awarded the prestigious Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of art and architecture.
Asymptote is currently working on a broad range of commissions at sites in the United States, Europe and Asia including:
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The Penang Global City Center (PGCC)- a cultural, hotel and performing arts centre in Penang, Malaysia |
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Two commercial office towers in Budapest, Hungary |
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A commission to build the World Business Centre Busan in Busan, South Korea |
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Also in design are two contemporary art pavilions commissioned by The Guggenheim Foundation for the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE |
Other recent competition proposals from Asymptote include a design for the Dubai International Financial Centre, a 146-storey building that punctuates the city’s skyline and a dramatic design for a new Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico. Projects designed by Asymptote that are now under construction include a high-end condominium building in New York City, a luxury residential tower in the United Arab Emirates and a large-scale master planning project for a 28-hectare site in central Prague in the Czech Republic.
Along with the significant building and planning projects that Asymptote is currently designing, the firm has, for nearly two decades, produced experimental art installations involving multi-media technologies for venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; DOCUMENTA XI in Kassel, Germany; the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and the Ministry of Public Works in Madrid. Asymptote’s installations and projects were also included in the Valencia Biennale 2003, the Beijing Biennale 2005 and the Venice Architecture Biennales of 1996, 2000 and 2004. Asymptote’s work has been widely published and is included in various private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pinothek in Munich, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Franc Centre in Orleans, France.
Hani Rashid’s academic career has included visiting professorships at numerous universities including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Since 1989, Hani Rashid has been an Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where he co-developed the school’s Advanced Digital Design program in 1992 and the school’s Digital Design Initiative in 1995.
At present Hani Rashid holds the Kenzo Tange chair for architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
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