Learning from... Beirut
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
11 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
PH1980:0048.01:027
architecture
1859-1860
View of the Consulate General of France, Beirut, Ottoman Empire (now in Lebanon)
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architecture
PH1980:0048.01:028
architecture
1859-1860
View of the courtyard of the Nuns' House, Beirut, Ottoman Empire (now in Lebanon)
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architecture
PH1980:0048.01:025 A/B
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- Suzanne K. Williamson indicates that this photograph is possibly taken from the French Lazarist Hospital or the Barracks (Oct. 1986). Further research should include verification of this information and identification of the source(s) from which it was obtained.
architecture
1859-1860
Panorama of north and northeast Beirut, Ottoman Empire (now in Lebanon)
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PH1980:0048.01:025 A/B
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- Suzanne K. Williamson indicates that this photograph is possibly taken from the French Lazarist Hospital or the Barracks (Oct. 1986). Further research should include verification of this information and identification of the source(s) from which it was obtained.
architecture
PH1980:0048.01:026 A/B
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- Suzanne K. Williamson indicates that this photograph is possibly taken from the French Lazarist Hospital or the Barracks (Oct. 1986). Further research should include verification of this information and identification of the source(s) from which it was obtained.
architecture
1859-1860
Panorama of south and southeast Beirut, Ottoman Empire (now in Lebanon)
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PH1980:0048.01:026 A/B
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- Suzanne K. Williamson indicates that this photograph is possibly taken from the French Lazarist Hospital or the Barracks (Oct. 1986). Further research should include verification of this information and identification of the source(s) from which it was obtained.
architecture
PH1982:0789.02:027
published 1842
articles
Caption This
Critical Cataloguing, Photography Collection, China, Peking, Beijing, Lebanon, Beirut, Captions, Social Media
27 November 2023
Caption This
Shukri Sultan and Endriana Audisho, Julia Ramos, and Jacqueline Tran on the stories constructed by the collection, documentation, cataloguing, and sharing of photography
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Project
AP142.S1.D234
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File documents an unsuccessful (?) competition entry for the reconstruction of the downtown market district and waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon. Material in this file was produced in 1994. File contains presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, colour Polaroids of drawings, maps, correspondence, competition programmes, specifications, financial records, clippings, a competition announcement, a curriculum vitae, a diagram, labels for drawings, business cards, and notes.
1994
The Reconstruction of the Souks, Beirut
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AP142.S1.D234
Description:
File documents an unsuccessful (?) competition entry for the reconstruction of the downtown market district and waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon. Material in this file was produced in 1994. File contains presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, colour Polaroids of drawings, maps, correspondence, competition programmes, specifications, financial records, clippings, a competition announcement, a curriculum vitae, a diagram, labels for drawings, business cards, and notes.
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1994
Project
Beirut Park Hotel
AP022.S1.1996.PR02
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File documents a proposal for a hotel-apartment complex with a health club and retail shops, Avenue du parc at Boulevard du parc, Beirut, Lebanon. File contains design development drawings, and a textual document.
1996
Beirut Park Hotel
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AP022.S1.1996.PR02
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File documents a proposal for a hotel-apartment complex with a health club and retail shops, Avenue du parc at Boulevard du parc, Beirut, Lebanon. File contains design development drawings, and a textual document.
Project
1996
textual records
textual records
circa 1996