PUBLICATIONS BY HSS
Books
Book Manuscripts
Chapters in Books
Encyclopedic Entries
Introductions in Books
Journals
Co-Habitats: How Will We Live Together?
Co-editor with Ala Tannir, (Silvana Editoriale, 2021)
Expansions
Co-editor with Ala Tannir, (Silvana Editoriale, 2021)
Biennale Architettura 2021: How Will We Live Together?
(Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2021)
The World as an Architectural Project
Co-author with Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, (The MIT Press, 2020)
Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969)
Co-editor with Eric Mumford, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 )
Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis
Forewords by Roger Owen and Ghassan Tueni, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, , 2003 )
CASE #2: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Revival of Mat Building (editor)
(Munich and Cambridge, Mass.: Prestel and Harvard Design School, 2001 )
Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City
Co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Munich: Prestel, 1998 )
Beirut Normal
(in preparation)
The School of Flexibility, Norman High School and Architectural Experimentation in the 1950s
(completed)
Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic
(in preparation)
“Wild Beast”
In Young Projects: Figure, Cast, Frame, (Brooklyn: Monacelli, 2022)
"Le Corbusier’s 'Geo-Architecture' and the Emergence of Territorial Aesthetics"
Chapter in Volume 2 Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980, (Berlin, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2017)
"Inscription: On Writing on Buildings"
In Ornament as Portable Culture, edited by Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne (forthcoming, 2015 )
"Bleu Outremer: The Displacement of Geography in Le Corbusier’s Urbanism"
In L’invention d’un architecte: Le Voyage en Orient et Le Corbusier, edited by Roberta Amirante, Burcu Kutucuoglu, Panayotis Tournikiotis and Yannis Tsianis (Paris: Editions La Villette et la Fondation Le Corbusier, 2013 )
"Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960"
In A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment , edited by Arindam Dutta (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2013 )
"It's Istanbul (not Globalization)"
In Living in the Endless City , edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2011)
"Le Corbusier and the Paradoxical Promise of Flexibility"
In Structuralism Reloaded, Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism , edited by Tomás Valena with Tom Avermaete and Georg Vrach- liotis (Stuttgart: Axel Menges, 2011 )
"Flexibility to Resilience"
In Making the Metropolitan Landscape, Standing Firm on Middle Ground, edited by Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber, (London and New York: Routledge, 2009 )
"Dubai: The City of Many Cities"
In The Arab City: Amman, Beirut and Dubai, edited by George Arbid, (Beirut: ESCWA Publications, 2005)
"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 )
"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 in The Contemporary Greek City, edited by Yannis Aesopos and Yorgos Simeoforidis, (Athens: Metapolis, 2001)
"On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics"
In The Pragmatist Imagination, Thinking About Things in the Making, edited by Joan Ockman, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)
"As-saha al-mu’ajjala (The Postponed Square)"
In l Bourj, Place de la Liberté et Porte du Levant, edited by Ghassan Tueni and Fares Sassine, (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, 2000)
"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)
"Chronology of the Urban History of Beirut (with Samir Khalaf)"
In Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, 1993)
"Territorial Claims"
In Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon, edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury, (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, 1993)
The Istanbul Studios at the GSD
Co-editor with Erkin Oza, (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, forthcoming, 2015)
Makina/Medina
Co-editor with Aziza Chaouni, (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, forthcoming, 2014)
Two Squares: Martyrs Square Downtown Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul
Co-editor with Mark Dwyer and Pars Kibarer, (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, 2006)
Kevin Lynch
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, edited by Stephen Sennott, (New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 2004)
Beirut
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, edited by Stephen Sennott, (New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 2004)
Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens
Co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1997)
One Body, Two Wings: Suzhou
Co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1997)
Open City: Rebuilding Downtown Beirut’s Waterfront
Co-editor with Peter G. Rowe, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1996)
The Architecture of the World: Oekoumenos Redux
In Global Design, edited by Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim, (Munich and London: Prestel, 2015)
Fragile: Handle with Rigor
In The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City, edited by Susan Miller and Mauro Bertagnin, (Cambridge (MA: The Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, 2010)
Preface
In A Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul at the Gates of Europe, (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, 2009)
Society of Forms: On the Recent Work of Vincent James Architects Associates
In VJAA monograph, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)
Tumertekin, the Stranger
In Han Tumertekin, Recent Work, (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, 2006)
Ashrafieh Opposes a Bridge Too Far
In The Daily Star, (March 5, 2014)
I’tirafat Mi’mari fi mir’aat tajribat Assem Salam (Assem Salam or the Architect as a Tragic Hero in the Epic of the City)
In An-Nahar Cultural Supplement, (April 12, 2014 )
Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic
In Harvard Design Magazine, (Spring, 2014)
Let Beirut Choose History Over a Highway
In The Daily Star, (April 5, 2014)
The Sea of Scales and Segments, discussion with Naor Ben-Yahoyada and Michael Herzfeld
In New Geographies 5, The Mediterranean, (2013 )
The World According to Architecture
In New Geographies, Issue # 4, The Scales of the Earth, (2011)
Une Question de Géographie
In Le Visiteur, Number 15, (2010)
It’s Istanbul (Not Globalization)
In Istanbul, City of Intersections, p. 14-15, (Urban Age, London School of Economics, November, 2009)
Alternative A
Op-Arch piece in Journal of Architectural Education, (May, 2009)
Tectonic Worlds
In the The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Tenth Award Cycle, 2005-2007 (exhibition catalogue), (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2008)
New Geographics
In New Geographies: Design, Agency, Territory, Issue #0, (2008)
Rebuilding Lebanon: The Human Dimension
In The Daily Star, (October 6, 2006)
What Can We Do? A Symposium on Sustaining Nature
In Harvard Design Magazine, #18, p. 46-61, (Spring/Summer, 2003, with several participants)
Sky-Bound: On the Recent Work of Michael Maltzan
In Exhibition Catalogue of Lift, exhibition of projects by Michael Maltzan at Gund Hall Gallery, (Harvard Graduate School of Design, November, 2003)
Beirut, the Novel
In Parachute #108, p. 132-143, (2002)
Constants in Motion: Le Corbusier’s Rule of Movement, at the Carpenter Center
In Perspecta 33, The Yale Architecture Journal, p. 114-125, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002)
Scott Cohen and the Rule of Error
In Newsline, Volume 13, Number 1, (Columbia University, 2001)
On the Brink: The Recent Work of Scott Cohen
In A+U #368, p. 82-86, (May, 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, (December 4, 1999)
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, Injertos 05, (June, 1997)
Towards an Environmental Consciousness in Architecture
In Hurriyat, Number 6, (Spring, 1997)
Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society
In New Political Science, Number 38/39, p. 153-163, (Winter/Spring, 1997)
Pseudo-City
In An Nahar Cultural Supplement, (October 21, 1994)
Perspective, Its Epistemic Grounding, and the Sky
With Pegor Papazian, in Harvard Architecture Review, #9, (New York: Rizzoli Press, 1993)
Al-bee’a al-madanniyah fi zama al-I’mar (The Urban Environment in the Post-War Era)
In An-Nahar Cultural Supplement, (April 10, 1993)