The curator of the 17th architecture biennale in Venice is Hashim Sarkis

Less than a month after the closure of this year's architectural biennale in Venice, on December 18, 2018, the curator for the upcoming edition was announced, who will be MIT Dean Hashim Sarkis. The common theme for the upcoming exhibition will not be revealed until next year, but Sarkis has already stated that "today's world presents new challenges for architecture, and he looks forward to collaborating with future participants from around the world to jointly showcase how to address these challenges."
Hashim Sarkis was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He completed his bachelor's degree in architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (1987) and subsequently earned his master's degree at GSD Harvard University (1989), a PhD there (1995), and went on to teach studios, history, and theory (1995-2015). He then worked in several firms, including Rafael Moneo's, and served as program director of the non-profit organization Plan B, which seeks to improve the environment in the Middle East. In 1998, he established his own architectural practice in both Cambridge and Beirut. In October 2014, he was appointed dean of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Sarkis was a member of the international jury of the Venice Biennale as early as 2016 and also exhibited in the Albanian (2010) and American (2014) national pavilions in Giardini.
The period of the seventeenth architecture biennale will be extended once again, running from May 23 to November 29, 2020.

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