Introducing Hashim Sarkis as curator of the next international architectural exhibition in Venice, Paolo Baratta, President of La Biennale di Venezia Foundation, said that "the Biennale has acquired a curator who is especially aware of the themes and critical points that the various contrasting realities of modern society create for our living space."
Hashim Sarkis was born in 1964 in Beirut and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University. In 1998, he founded the architecture firm Hashim Sarkis Studios in Beirut, as well as in Cambridge, Massachusetts - where he taught at Harvard from 1995-2014 (professor since 1998), and since 2015 - runs the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His curricula and academic publications are devoted to the architecture of the developing regions of the world and their cities, primarily Mediterranean, the history and modernity of "green" construction, the problems of aesthetics and "visuality". Realizations by HSS include the City Hall in Jebeil and residential buildings in Amshit. In 2016 Sarkis was a jury member of the Venice Biennale.
The XVII Biennale of Architecture will be held in Venice from May 23 to November 29, 2020, the vernissage is scheduled for May 21 and 22.
