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An Architect Strikes (Olive) Oil In The Middle East

An Architect Strikes (Olive) Oil In The Middle East
By Lindsey McCormack, 02138 Spring 2007
Hashim Sarkis has an unusual roster of clients for an architect: fishermen, farmers, child workers. The soft-spoken professor splits his time between the Graduate School of Design, where he directs the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture; his Harvard Square studio; and Lebanon, where he takes on rural design projects in conjunction with local NGOs—and subsidizes this work, “Robin Hood-style,” with more lucrative commissions in Dubai and Cambridge.

Sarkis knows the frustrations of the non-profit world—the piecemeal grants and shifting funding priorities. For a housing project in the coastal city of Tyre, his first payment was three kilos of fish. Yet working with a bare-bones budget has also brought discipline to his work, (...)

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