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  • Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (1953-1969)(co-editor with Eric Mumford), book (New Haven: Yale University Press, , 2008 )
  • Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis (with forewords by Roger Owen and Ghassan Tueni), book (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, , 2003 )
  • CASE #2: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Revival of Mat Building (editor), book (Munich and Cambridge, Mass.: Prestel and Harvard Design School, , 2001 )
  • Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City (co-editor with Peter G. Rowe), book (Munich: Prestel, , 1998 )
  • The School of Flexibility, Norman High School and Architectural Experimentation in the 1950s (completed) , book manuscript (, , )
  • Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic (in preparation) , book manuscript (, , )
  • Beirut Normal (in preparation) , book manuscript (, , )
  • Inscription: On Writing on Buildings, book chapter , in Ornament as Portable Culture , edited by Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne (, forthcoming , 2015 )
  • Bleu Outremer: The Displacement of Geography in Le Corbusier’s Urbanism, book chapter , in L’invention d’un architecte: Le Voyage en Orient et Le Corbusier , edited by Roberta Amirante, Burcu Kutucuoglu, Panayotis Tournikiotis and Yannis Tsianis (Paris: Editions La Villette et la Fondation Le Corbusier, , 2013 )
  • Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960, book chapter , in A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment , edited by Arindam Dutta (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, , 2013 )
  • It's Istanbul (not Globalization), book chapter , in Living in the Endless City , edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (London and New York: Phaidon Press, , , 2011)
  • Le Corbusier and the Paradoxical Promise of Flexibility, book chapter , in Structuralism Reloaded, Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism , edited by Tomás Valena with Tom Avermaete and Georg Vrach- liotis (Stuttgart: Axel Menges, , 2011 )
  • Flexibility to Resilience, book chapter , in Making the Metropolitan Landscape, Standing Firm on Middle Ground , edited by Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber (London and New York: Routledge, , 2009 )
  • Civic Pride (with Nasser Abulhasan), book chapter , in Aleppo, The Rehabilitation of the Old City, The Veronica Green Rudge Prize 2005 , edited by Joan Busquets (Cambridge: Harvard Design School, , 2005 )
  • Dubai: The City of Many Cities, book chapter , in The Arab City: Amman, Beirut and Dubai , edited by George Arbid (Beirut: ESCWA Publications, , 2005 )
  • A Vital Void: Reconstructions of Downtown Beirut, book chapter , in The Resilient City , edited by Lawrence Vale and Thomas Campanella (Oxford: Oxford University Press, , 2004 )
  • On the Beauty of Athens, book chapter , in The Contemporary Greek City , edited by Yannis Aesopos and Yorgos Simeoforidis (Athens: Metapolis, , 2001 )
  • On the Line Between Procedures and Aesthetics, book chapter , in The Pragmatist Imagination, Thinking About Things in the Making , edited by Joan Ockman (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, , 2001)
  • As-saha al-mu’ajjala (The Postponed Square), book chapter , in El Bourj, Place de la Liberté et Porte du Levant , edited by Ghassan Tueni and Fares Sassine (Beirut: Dar An-Nahar, , 2000 )
  • Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society, book chapter , in Promise of Multiculturalism , edited by George Katsiaficas and Tedros Kiros (London and New York: Routledge, , 1998 )
  • Territorial Claims, book chapter , in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon , edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, , 1993 )
  • Chronology of the Urban History of Beirut (with Samir Khalaf), book chapter , in Recovering Beirut, Urban Planning and Spatial Reconstruction in Lebanon , edited by Samir Khalaf and Philip Khoury (New York and Amsterdam: E.J. Brill Publishers, , 1993 )
  • The Architecture of the World: Oekoumenos Redux, book introduction , in Global Design , edited by Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim (Munich and London: Prestel, , )
  • Preface, book introduction , in A Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul at the Gates of Europe (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, , 2009 )
  • Fragile: Handle with Rigor, book introduction , in The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City , edited by Susan Miller and Mauro Bertagnin (Cambridge (MA: The Aga Khan Program, Harvard Design School, , 2010 )
  • Society of Forms: On the Recent Work of Vincent James Architects Associates, book introduction , in VJAA monograph (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, , 2006 )
  • Tumertekin, the Stranger, book introduction , in Han Tumertekin, Recent Work (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, , 2006 )
  • Beirut, encyclopedia entry , in Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture , edited by Stephen Sennott (New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, , 2004 )
  • Kevin Lynch, encyclopedia entry , in Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture , edited by Stephen Sennott (New York: Fitzroy and Dearborn, , 2004 )
  • The Istanbul Studios at the GSD (co-editor with Erkin Ozay), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, forthcoming, 2015 )
  • Makina/Medina (co-editor with Aziza Chaouni), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, forthcoming , 2014 )
  • Two Squares: Martyrs Square Downtown Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul ( co-editor with Mark Dwyer and Pars Kibarer), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University, Harvard Design School, , 2006 )
  • One Body, Two Wings: Suzhou (co-editor with Peter G. Rowe), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, , 1997 )
  • Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens ( co-editor with Peter G. Rowe), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, , 1997 )
  • Open City: Rebuilding Downtown Beirut’s Waterfront ( co-editor with Peter G. Rowe), encyclopedia entry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, , 1996 )
  • I’tirafat Mi’mari fi mir’aat tajribat Assem Salam (Assem Salam or the Architect as a Tragic Hero in the Epic of the City), journal , in An-Nahar Cultural Supplement (, April 12, 2014 )
  • Let Beirut Choose History Over a Highway, journal , in The Daily Star (, April 5, 2014 )
  • Ashrafieh Opposes a Bridge Too Far, journal , in The Daily Star (, March 5, 2014 )
  • Geo-Architecture: A Pre-History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic, journal , in Harvard Design Magazine (, Spring, 2014 )
  • The Sea of Scales and Segments, discussion with Naor Ben-Yahoyada and Michael Herzfeld, journal , in in New Geographies 5, The Mediterranean (, , 2013 )
  • The World According to Architecture, journal , in New Geographies, Issue # 4, The Scales of the Earth (, , 2011 )
  • Une Question de Géographie, journal , in Le Visiteur, Number 15 (, , 2010 )
  • It’s Istanbul (Not Globalization), journal , in Istanbul, City of Intersections, p. 14-15 (Urban Age, London School of Economics, November, 2009)
  • Alternative A, journal , in Op-Arch piece in Journal of Architectural Education (, May, 2009)
  • New Geographics, journal , in New Geographies: Design, Agency, Territory, Issue #0 (, , 2008 )
  • Tectonic Worlds, journal , in the The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Tenth Award Cycle, 2005-2007(exhibition catalogue) (Harvard Graduate School of Design, , 2008 )
  • Rebuilding Lebanon: The Human Dimension, journal , in The Daily Star (, October 6, 2006 )
  • Sky-Bound: On the Recent Work of Michael Maltzan, journal , in Exhibition Catalogue of Lift, exhibition of projects by Michael Maltzan at Gund Hall Gallery (Harvard Graduate School of Design, November, 2003)
  • What Can We Do? A Symposium on Sustaining Nature (with several participants), journal , in Harvard Design Magazine, #18, p. 46-61 (, Spring/Summer, 2003)
  • Beirut, the Novel, journal , in Parachute #108, p. 132-143 (, , 2002)
  • Constants in Motion: Le Corbusier’s Rule of Movement, at the Carpenter Center, journal , in Perspecta 33, The Yale Architecture Journal, p. 114-125 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, , 2002)
  • On the Brink: The Recent Work of Scott Cohen, journal , in A+U #368, p. 82-86 (, May, 2001)
  • Scott Cohen and the Rule of Error, journal , in Newsline, Volume 13, Number 1 (Columbia University, , 2001 )
  • Fi thil Pierre el-Khoury (In the Shadow of Pierre el-Khoury: Book Review), journal , in An-Nahar Cultural Supplement (, March 25, 2000 )
  • Al-malika wal-turath: hawla mawdu’ al-mufatha alal-turath al-mi’mari (The Queen and Heritage: On the Preservation Controversy), journal , in An-Nahar Daily (, December 4, 1999 )
  • Space for Recognition: On the Design of Public Space in a Pluralist Society, journal , in New Political Science, Number 38/39, p. 153-163 (, Winter/Spring, 1997)
  • Hadathatun touhi wala tuhaymin (A Modernism that Inspires without Imposing: On the Work of Rafael Moneo), journal , in An-Nahar Daily (, October 8, 1997 )
  • The Two-Tiered Image: An Architectural Proposition, journal , in Circo, Injertos 05 (, June, 1997)
  • Towards an Environmental Consciousness in Architecture, journal , in Hurriyat, Number 6 (, Spring, 1997)
  • Pseudo-City, journal , in An Nahar Cultural Supplement (, October 21, 1994 )
  • Al-bee’a al-madanniyah fi zama al-I’mar (The Urban Environment in the Post-War Era), journal , in An-Nahar Cultural Supplement (, April 10, 1993 )
  • Perspective, Its Epistemic Grounding, and the Sky (with Pegor Papazian), journal , in Harvard Architecture Review, #9 (New York: Rizzoli Press, , 1993 )