Hani Rashid
Hani Rashid (born 1958 in Cairo) is an Egyptian-American-Canadian architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
Also recorded as Hani
Hani Rashid
The original uploader was Claudia23 at German Wikipedia. · Asymptote Architecture · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Name
- Hani Rashid
- Born
- 1958
- Birthplace
- Cairo, Egypt
- Education
- Carleton University, Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Occupation
- Architect, Educator
- Spouse
- Lise Anne Couture
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- architecture · modern architecture · sustainable architecture · architectural design
- Honours
- Frederick Kiesler Prize
- Languages
- English
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Hani Rashid (born 1958 in Cairo) is an Egyptian-American-Canadian architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Hani Rashid. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
gnd · 16045500-5 · wikidata · Q1495293 · wikipedia · Hani Rashid
In this article
Biography
Biography
Hani Rashid studied at University of Ottawa. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture, modern architecture and sustainable architecture. Employment is recorded with University of Michigan, ETH Zurich and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Work by Hani Rashid is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Nieuwe Instituut. Distinctions recorded are Frederick Kiesler Prize.
Portrait of Hani Rashid taken at the Angewandte University of Applied Arts, Vienna by Reiner Zetl 2012
Lajetee
Hani Rashid
Anon126 · Cropped from Hani Rashid by Naho Kubota.jpg by Asymptote Architecture
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Hani Rashid • Born — 1958 • Birthplace — Cairo, Egypt • Education — Carleton University, Cranbrook Academy of Art • Occupation — Architect, Educator • Spouse — Lise Anne Couture • Relatives — Karim Rashid (brother)
Early life and education
Early life and education
Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958, his family immigrated to Ontario, Canada when he was young. His brother is industrial designer, Karim Rashid. In 1983, Hani Rashid received his bachelor's degree in Architecture from Carleton University in Canada. It was at Carleton University he met his wife and future business partner, Lise Anne Couture. In 1985, he received a master of architecture degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Architectural work
Architectural work
Rashid co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with his wife, Lise Anne Couture in 1989. Asymptote Architecture is known for fusing architecture with computer technology to make a hybrid style. Significant projects include 166 Perry Street, a luxury residential building in Manhattan's West Village, the Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi a luxury hotel and one of the main architectural features of the new Yas Marina development and accompanying Formula 1 raceway circuit in Abu Dhabi, and the HydraPier Pavilion in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. Portfolio also includes some high-profile interior work such as the New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor, the American flagship stores for Carlos Miele and Alessi and the Carlos Miele Store in Paris. Other projects include the winning entry for the World Business Center Solomon Tower in Busan, South Korea in 2007, a large-scale cultural, hotel and performing arts complex in Penang, Malaysia and the Strata Tower in Abu Dhabi.
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
The following is established of the heading itself.
Teaching
Rashid's academic career includes visiting professorships at several universities, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 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, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Lund University. Since 1989, Rashid has been an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York, where he launched the "Advanced Digital Design" (1992) and the "Digital Design Initiative" (1995). In 2004, he received a professorship at the Cátedra Luis Barragán in Monterrey, Mexico, and from 2006 to 2009 he was a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2008, Rashid was the recipient of the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor Chair at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was also a member of the jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. From 2009 to 2011 he was a guest professor at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Since October 2011 Rashid has been a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Primary material
Documents and archives
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1495293: Hani Rashid
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Hani Rashid”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 16045500-5, Exhibition Hani Rashid. Atmospherics (2008 : New York, NY).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Select awards
In 2000, Rashid represented the U.S. at the Seventh International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. In 2004, Asymptote Architecture was selected as the design architects of Metamorph, the Ninth Venice Architecture Biennale. Also in 2004, Hani Rashid together with his partner Lise Anne Couture was awarded the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
Institutional database
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1495293: Hani RashidWikimedia Foundation
Institutional witnessreference work
Secondary witnessauthority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 16045500-5, Exhibition Hani Rashid. Atmospherics (2008 : New York, NY).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Design
11,558 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Han Pao-tehDesigner
- Hana ElhebshiDesigner
- Hanequin de BruselasDesigner
- Hanequin de CuéllarDesigner
- Hanna BondarDesigner
- Hanna SalamehDesigner
- Hanne KjærholmDesigner
- Hannes LintlDesigner
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Hani Rashid?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.