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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)

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