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Hani Rashid (born 1958), a contemporary architect who lives and works in New York city. Hani Rashid along with his partner Lise Anne Couture are considered amongst the most influential architects of their generation working today. Together they founded Asymptote Architecture in New York city in 1989. Hani Rashid is presently a Univ. Professor of Architecture at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture received the Kiesler Prize at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004 in recognition of their achievements in art and architecture.

Life
Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian father, the abstract painter, sculpture and set designer Mahmoud A Rashid and a British mother Joyce Eileen England. He began his studies in architecture at the Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1976. At the age of 19 Hani Rashid encountered a series of Jesus Soto sculptures in Toronto that greatly influenced his decision to peruse architecture over his other passion film. Subsequently he continued he did his post graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan he received a Masters degree in Architecture in 1986. In 1987 he established Asymptote in Milan Italy where he lived for three years then moving to New York city in 1989. While Asymptote was in formation Hani Rashid collaborated closely with architects Daniel Libeskind in Milan and Lebbeus Woods and Michael Sorkin in New York. In 1988 Asymptote was awarded the first prize in an international competition to design a new monument gateway situated over the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles. The winning entry, the Steel Cloud, gained Asymptote international recognition.

Work
Hani Rashid emerged at a time when there were a handful of young contemporary architects making, or using computing and digital means to explore and develop spatial ideas; other key figures include Greg Lynn and Lars Spuybroek. Hani Rashid first made his mark as an experimental architect in the mid 1990s, when he began to explore digitally augmented installation environments producing works such as the Flux interactice Envronment first installed as part of the Capp Street artist in residence program in San Francisco(1996). In 2000 while co-representing the USA at the Venice Biennale he installed a series of digitally manipulated architectural environments produced in collaboration with his graduate students at Columbia University GSAP. At documenta 11 in 2002, where the selection of work that year focused on works of art with political or social commentary Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture presented a new work entitled FluxSpace 06 in response to the rise of a digitally augmented global urbanism structured around information space and data landscapes. Hani Rashid was a visiting Professor at Columbia University Gsap between 1989 and 2007, a Professor of Architecture at the ETH in Zurich from 2006-2009 and at Princeton University from 2009-2011. Hani Rashid along with partner Lise Anne Couture Asymptote Architecture have recently completed and built the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, 166 Perry Street in New York city, The Alessi and Miele flagship stores in New York city, The Hydrapier in the Netherlands, and opening in 2012 the Four Rivers Pavilion in Seoul South Korea.

Exhibitions and Collections
Hani Rashid represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2000. He has been the focus of several retrospectives at various international institutions and has works in numerous permanant collecctions including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Museum Of Modern Art in New York; the NAI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and The Pinacoteca Moderna in Munich Germany, The Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Contemporary Architecture From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York;

Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture ( Asymptote ) have exhibited at Venice Biennale on numerous occasions, in 1998 in the Korean Pavilion exhibiting a ew Museum of Korean History for the Yongsan District. In 2000 as part of Massimilano Fuksas' Città: Less Aesthetics more Ethic installed a large scale infatable installtion entitled FluxSpace 01 in the Giardini. In 2004 Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture designed the architecture and installation work for the 9th architecture Biennale, Metamorh, curated by Kurt Forester and in the 2008 Biennale OutThere curated by Aaron Betsky installed a large scale work in the Cordiere entitled 'Three Houses for the Subconscious'.

Curator
Hani Rashid has curated exhibitions on experimental architecture, in 1993 at the Store Front for Architecture he curated a group show Distraction/Surveillance 002 and in 1998, also at the Store Front for Architecture a group exhibition entitled The 220 Minute Museum. In 1998 at Artists Space in New York city he curated a group exhibition entitled Digital mapping: Architecture as Media.