Hani Rashid immigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1967. Expo was “the highlight of Canada’s Centennial celebrations in 1967”, according to Canadian Encyclopedia. How fortuitous it was for Hani to attend Expo at the age of nine; most certainly a life-changing and inspirational experience that was pivotal in Hani’s trajectory of his life and career.

I have followed Hani’s work for many years after being introduced to his mother at a women’s networking event. Hani’s father was an artist and his brother Karim, an industrial designer, is considered one of the most prolific designers with over 4000 designs in production. http://www.karimrashid.com/overview#about

Both Hani and his partner Lisa Ann Couture founded their firm Asymptote in 1989. Incidentally, the definition of asymptote is “a line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.” They describe their firm as “not only an innovative architecture firm, but also a design “think tank”. With a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach, we are able to assume a fresh perspective and generate creative solutions by thinking outside the box.”

Although they are based in New-York City their portfolio of work is worldwide and extensive including: