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20 December 2018 The Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, on the proposal of President Paolo Baratta, has resolved to appoint Hashim Sarkis director of the Architecture Sector, with the specific task of curating the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, scheduled from 23 May to 29 November 2020.The architect Sarkis, owner of Hashim Sarkis Studios (Hss), founded in 1998 and with offices in Boston and Beirut, since 2015 is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (Mit).
Of Lebanese origin, he was a member of the international jury of the 2016 Architecture Biennale and participated with his study in the United States Pavilion (Architecture Biennale 2014) and Albania (Architecture Biennale 2010). Sarkis has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as a Masters and PhD in Architecture from Harvard University. He has edited and written various books and articles on the history and theory of modern architecture; among them, Josep Lluis Sert, The Architect of Urban Design (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008); Circa 1958, Lebanon in the Projects and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis (Beirut: Dar Annahar, 2003); and Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital (Munich: Prestel, 2001).