Hashim Sarkis knew his calling early. He loved art and the way buildings looked and fit together and remembers that, even as a preschooler, he wanted to design them. Seeing photos of MIT’s “beautiful modernist buildings” in an architecture history textbook in Beirut was his first introduction to MIT, where he is now Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning.

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