Hani Rashid

Hani Rashid was born in Cairo in 1958 to an Egyptian father and an English mother. He studied architecture in Ottawa, Canada and went on to found the architecture, art and design practice Asymptote with partner Lise Anne Couture, in New York City in 1989. In 2000 Hani co-represented the United States at the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in 2004 he was awarded the Chair to the Cátedra Luis Barragán, in Monterey, Mexico. 
    Hani Rashid has been a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous universities including the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Berlage Institute, in the Netherlands. Since 1989 Hani has been an Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture where he co-developed the school’s Advanced Digital Design program in 1992 and the schools digital design initiative in 1995. Hani Rashid is presently also a Professor of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology department of Architecture (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland.  
    Hani Rashid and his firm Asymptote in 1996 designed the Virtual Trading Floor for the New York Stock Exchange and in 1998 a Virtual Museum for the Solomon R Guggenheim. Recently completed projects include the award winning HydraPier in the Netherlands, the Turf Club Master plan in Penang, Malaysia and a proposal for a new Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara Mexico.
    Hani Rashid’s works are included in numerous important private and permanent museum collections including that of the Museum Of Modern Art and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museums in New York, the Pinotek in Munich, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Frac collection in Orleans France.