Practice

Curriculum Vitae

Asymptote Architecture — Hani Rashid + Lise Anne Couture, 1989–Present

Selected Commissioned Projects

Selected Competitions & Proposals

Selected Honors & Awards
  • 2024 National Academy of Design — Elected as National Academicians
  • 2020 Connecticut Architecture Foundation Distinguished Leadership Award
  • 2016 100 Architects of the Year — Korean Institute of Architects
  • 2014 Iconic Awards, "Architecture > Public" — The ARC River Culture Pavilion
  • 2014 PIDA – Ischia International Architecture Prize
  • 2013 Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award — Beukenhof Auditorium
  • 2012 Architecture Magazine PA Award — Beukenhof Auditorium
  • 2012 Finalist, Keelung Marine Gateway Competition
  • 2011 Middle East Architect Awards, Hospitality Project of the Year — Yas Hotel
  • 2011 DX Gala Honoree for Outstanding Contribution to Design, Toronto
  • 2011 Engineering Excellence, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York — Yas Hotel
  • 2011 Finalist, Kaohsiung Port Terminal International Competition
  • 2011 PIDA – Ischia International Architecture Prize
  • 2010 Le Grand Prix de l'Architecture — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 ArchDaily Building of the Year — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Emirates Glass LEAF Award, Best Overall Building — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 IES Lumen Award, Technical Artistry in Lighting — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Hospitality Design Award, Best Hotel — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 FX International Interior Design Award — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 IESNA Illumination Award — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 AL Lighting Design Award, Middle East — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Grand Prix de l'Architecture, Festival Automobile International — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Travel + Leisure Design Awards, Best Large Hotel — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 World Travel Awards — World's Leading New Hotel — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 World Travel Awards — Middle East's Leading New Hotel — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Cityscape Abu Dhabi Award — Best Commercial/Office/Retail Built Development — Yas Hotel
  • 2010 Finalist, Zurich Circle International Competition
  • 2009 AIA New York Chapter Award — Alessi Flagship Store
  • 2009 NYC DDC Design and Construction Excellence Program — Selected for Large Projects
  • 2008 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design
  • 2008 First Prize, Vake Multifunctional Center Competition
  • 2008 Travel + Leisure, Best Commercial Space — Alessi Flagship Store
  • 2008 Finalist, Vitoria Exhibition and Music Hall Competition
  • 2008 Honorable Mention, Perm Museum International Competition
  • 2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Interior Architecture Category
  • 2007 First Prize, World Business Center Busan Competition
  • 2007 Time Out Magazine Award — Alessi Flagship Store
  • 2007 Architecture Lighting Magazine Award — Alessi Flagship Store
  • 2007 Archicolors Merit Award — Alessi Flagship Store
  • 2006 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committee
  • 2005 First Prize, Penang Turf Club Master Plan Competition
  • 2005 AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Interior Architecture Category
  • 2004 Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts
  • 2004 Cátedra Luis Barragán Chair, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • 2004 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design
  • 2003 Dupont Benedictus Awards
  • 2003 AIA New York Chapter Design Award — HydraPier Pavilion
  • 2002 AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Architecture Category
  • 2002 Webby Award, Broadband — Guggenheim.com
  • 2002 Prize Dedalo Minosse
  • 2002 TIME Magazine — "Leaders in Innovation for the 21st Century"
  • 2001 First Prize, Floriade Municipal Pavilion Competition
  • 2001 National Design Awards Finalist, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  • 2000 Artist in Residence, CCA San Francisco
  • 1999 Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York
  • 1996 Annual Danish Building Prize
  • 1996 Premio della Biennale Internationale der Papierkunst — Writing Space Installation
  • 1995 Second Prize, Paper Art Biennale
  • 1994 40 Under 40, Interiors Magazine
  • 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
  • 1989 30 Under 30, Interiors Magazine
  • 1989 First Prize, Los Angeles West Coast Gateway
  • 1989 Finalist, Library of Alexandria Competition

Principals

Hani Rashid

  • EducationMArch, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1985); BArch, Carleton University (1983)
  • CurrentPrincipal, Asymptote Architecture, New York
  • FormerProfessor, University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Angewandte (2011–2024); Dean of Architecture, the Angewandte (2014–2016); President, Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (2013–2017); Columbia University GSAPP (1989–2006); ETH Zurich (2004–2006); Harvard GSD, Kenzo Tange Chair (2007); Princeton University (2008–2011)
  • Selected ChairsKenzo Tange Chair (Harvard GSD), Cátedra Luis Barragán (Monterrey), Muschenheim Fellowship (Michigan)
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Lise Anne Couture, AIA

  • EducationMArch, Yale University (1986); BArch, Carleton University (1983)
  • CurrentProfessor in Practice, Columbia University GSAPP (2011–Present)
  • FormerHarvard GSD, Kenzo Tange Chair (2008); Yale University (2002, 2004, 2009); MIT (2006); Cornell University, Baird Chair (2010–2011); SCI-Arc (2005, 2011)
  • Selected ChairsKenzo Tange Chair (Harvard GSD), Bishop / Saarinen / Davenport Chairs (Yale), Baird Chair (Cornell), Shure Chair (UVA), Muschenheim Fellowship (Michigan)
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Selected Exhibitions
  • 2025 FEEDback – Urban Romanticism Spazio Giustiniani, Genoa, Italy
  • 2018 MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2017 MILLENNIUM: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s The Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY
  • 2017 Hyperfine Splitting 008: Mediations on Jakob's Ladders Schlosslichtspiele, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2016 Antarctica: Re-Cyclical — Works by Studio Hani Rashid Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2016 Endless House: Experimental Archetypes of Dwelling The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2016 Habiter L'eau FRAC Centre – Val de Loire Collection, Orléans, France
  • 2016 City of Ideas: Architects' Voices & Visions Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia
  • 2016 Sharing Models: Manhattanisms Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
  • 2015 Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
  • 2015 Built by Women Center for Architecture, New York, NY
  • 2014 Display of The Centuries: Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
  • 2014 Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada
  • 2014 OfficeUS, American Pavilion Venice Biennale International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice, Italy
  • 2014 Educating Architects University of Greenwich, London, UK
  • 2014 Villes Visionnaires FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
  • 2014 Media Architecture Biennale Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2014 Project Source Code Venice Biennale International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice, Italy
  • 2013 Applied Design The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2013 Les Pléiades — 30 ans des Frac Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
  • 2013 Never Built: Los Angeles Los Angeles Architecture & Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2012 No Object Is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • 2012 100 Architects of the Year Korean Institute of Architects, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2011 First Beijing International Design Triennial Beijing, China
  • 2011 Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2011 Post-Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale Carrara, Italy
  • 2010 Contemplating the Void Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  • 2010 B-Scape: Modern Views Center for Modernism, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Canaan, CT
  • 2010 La mano dell'architetto — The Hand of the Architect FAI Italian National Trust, Milan, Italy
  • 2010 Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2009 New World Architecture The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, IL
  • 2009 Make It Work: Engineering Possibilities Center for Architecture, New York, NY
  • 2008 Meta Design Miami, Miami, FL
  • 2008 Atmospherics Phillips de Pury & Company, New York
  • 2008 Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, 11th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
  • 2008 Prototyping the Future 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2008 Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures — Architectures of Finance MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
  • 2008 ArchiLab Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2008 Urbanopolis Musée de la Civilisation, Québec City, Canada
  • 2008 Frieze Art Fair London, UK
  • 2007 LQ Chandelier Art Basel Miami Beach — Zumtobel Collectors' Lounge, Miami, FL
  • 2007 LQ Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria
  • 2007 Gwangju Design Biennale Seoul, South Korea
  • 2007 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia
  • 2006 L'eau, source d'architecture Electra Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2006 Guggenheim Architecture Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
  • 2006 Arte e Scienza 2006 Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, Italy
  • 2006 Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956–2006 Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
  • 2006 New American Architecture The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, IL
  • 2005 Machines Atmosphériques FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
  • 2005 Architecture and Design Drawings The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2005 Speedy Architecture BMW Pavilion, Munich, Germany
  • 2005 Dreams of Piet Sanders NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2005 Algorithmic Revolution Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2004 Fast Forward, 1st Beijing Architecture Biennial Beijing, China
  • 2004 Arti & Architettura Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
  • 2004 Art and the City: New Visions in Architecture Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2004 Zoomorphic Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  • 2004 Metamorph, 9th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
  • 2004 Non-Standard Architectures Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2004 The Snow Show Kemi, Finland
  • 2004 Unplugged Architecture Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2003 Approach the Future: The Asymptote Experience NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2003 Moving Pictures (Exhibition Design) Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
  • 2003 Carlos Miele Flagship Store São Paulo Architecture Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2003 El aire es azul — The Air is Blue Cátedra Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2003 Futures to Come Dansk Arkitektur Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2003 Consuming Spaces, National Design Triennial Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
  • 2002 Moving Pictures (Exhibition Design, Catalog Design, Brand Identity) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  • 2002 Documenta XI Kassel, Germany
  • 2002 Involucri — Flux Pavilion Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 2002 M-Scapes Visionaire Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2002 Flux 4.0 — I-Scapes Creative Time, New York, NY
  • 2002 A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals Max Protetch Gallery, New York; Venice Biennale; National Building Museum, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Latent Utopias Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  • 2002 New Landscape Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada
  • 2002 Eyebeam Architekturmuseum, Munich, Germany
  • 2002 Stratascape (with Karim Rashid) Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2002 Proposals for a New Mercedes Benz Museum Mercedes Museum Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2002 BMW Event and Delivery Center AEDES Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2001 010101 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Open Source Architecture: Building Eyebeam Eyebeam Atelier, New York, NY
  • 2001 Digital/Real Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2001 Global Tools Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
  • 2001 Digital Printmaking Now Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2000 Architectural Laboratories, U.S. Pavilion, 7th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
  • 2000 FluxSpace 2.0, 7th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
  • 2000 Vision and Reality Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2000 Compressions Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2000 Spatial Meditations (with Claudia Hill) Eyebeam, New York, NY
  • 2000 FluxSpace 1.0 CCAC, San Francisco, CA
  • 1999 Selections from the Permanent Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1999 I-Scapes V 1.0 Frederieke Taylor TZ Art Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1999 Equal Partners Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
  • 1999 Archilab FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
  • 1999 OffsideOn Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
  • 1999 Playwork: Hyperspace, Synworld Vienna, Austria
  • 1999 Space '99 German Architecture Center (DAZ), Berlin, Germany
  • 1999 Digital Sites Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1999 Enchantier: Collections of the CCA Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Québec, Canada
  • 1999 Mutations Dansk Arkitektur / Gammeldok, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1998 @Edge American Academy, Rome, Italy
  • 1998 TransArchitectures Aedes Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 1998 Digital Sites Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1998 Equal Partners Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
  • 1997 Points de Vue Musée de Montagris, Montagris, France
  • 1997 Aarhus Kunstmuseum Radhushallen, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 1996 Writing Space, Paper Art Biennale Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
  • 1996 Future Visions for Korea International Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
  • 1995 Artistes/Architectes Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
  • 1994 Urban Revisions Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  • 1994 Asymptote: Ten Projects Grand Hall, Takashimaya, Kyoto
  • 1994 Hyperfine Splitting Uzzan Galerie, Paris
  • 1994 Urban Revisions Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 1994 L'architecte est sur les lieux Centre de Création Contemporain, Tours
  • 1994 Group Show Musée des Beaux Arts, Chartres
  • 1993 Berlin: Designing a Capital for the 21st Century German Cultural Center, New York
  • 1993 Berlin Spreebogen Competition Avery Hall, Columbia University, New York
  • 1992 Theory & Experimentation Whiteley's, London
  • 1991 Les Architectes Plasticiens Sadock & Uzzan Galerie, Paris
  • 1990 Anaglyptic Architecture Architecture Gallery, Princeton University
  • 1990 OPTIGRAPH 3 Buell Hall, Columbia University, New York
  • 1990 ASYMPTOTE Fenster Gallery, Frankfurt
  • 1990 Alexandria Library Finalists UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
  • 1990 Paris — Architektur und Utopie Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
  • 1990 Asymptote Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
  • 1990 Experimental Architecture Aedes Gallery, Berlin
  • 1990 West Coast Gateway Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
  • 1990 Rashid+Rashid Emily Carr Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1990 Paris — Thought Pattern for the 21st Century Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris
  • 1989 Theory and Practice Gallery 76, Toronto
  • 1989 30 under 30 Steelcase Gallery, New York
  • 1989 Form; Being; Absence Griffith McGear Gallery, New York
  • 1989 The Steel Cloud 2AES, San Francisco
  • 1988 Kursaal for an Evacuee Artists Space, New York

Selected Publications & Writings

Monographs

  • 2014 Asymptote: The Architecture of Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture — Rizzoli
  • 2006 Asymptote Architecture — Springer Vienna Architecture
  • 2002 Asymptote: Flux — Phaidon Press
  • 1995 Asymptote: Architecture at the Interval — Rizzoli International Publications

Selected Press, Essays & Articles

  • 2009 Redesigning the World Newsweek, Cathleen McGuigan
  • 2009 Strata Tower Architectural Design, vol. 79, no. 2
  • 2008 Architectural Iconoclasts Specifier, no. 78, Alys Moody
  • 2008 The Virtual Messiahs Whitewall, Aric Chen
  • 2008 Modern Architecture A–Z Taschen
  • 2007 Performing Elegance Architectural Design, vol. 77, no. 1
  • 2007 A Luxury Condo by Arty Architects from the Fringe The New York Times, Arts Section
  • 2006 Architecture Now! Vol. 4 Taschen
  • 2006 Rem Koolhaas + Hani Rashid The Architect's Newspaper
  • 2004 Design Document Series 09: Scape_Asymptote Architecture/USA DAMDI Co., Ltd
  • 2004 Architecture Now 3: The Architecture of Today Taschen
  • 2004 On the Road to Venice: 9th Architecture Biennale Architectural Record, Robert Ivy
  • 2004 Thoughts on the Metamorphoses of Architecture Log, Kurt Forster
  • 2004 Asymptote A+U
  • 2002 Architectural Laboratories: Greg Lynn & Hani Rashid NAi Publishers
  • 2002 Haarlemmermeer Pavilion by Asymptote: HydraPier BIS Publishers
  • 2001 The Rashid Machine Metropolis, Peter Hall
  • 2001 Curves Ahead: What About Blobs Details, James S. Russell
  • 2000 Reinventing the Museum Wired, Jessie Scanlon
  • 2000 Guggenheim Virtual Museum Domus
  • 1999 Asymptote: Rashid + Couture A+U
  • 1999 Asymptote's Dual Projects for the NYSE Architectural Record, Sarah Amelar
  • 1997 Architecture in the 1990s, New Forms Philip Jodido, ed., Taschen
  • 1996 Asymptote Architecture, Architecture for the Future Pierre Terrail Editions, Paris
  • 2017 Learning from the Virtual e-flux Architecture
  • 2002 Asymptote: Flux Phaidon Press

Museum Collections
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal
  • Pinakothek der Moderne / Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich
  • ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
  • FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans
  • Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
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