Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958 to a British mother and Egyptian father and raised in England and Canada (by the way - Hani is the brother of Karim Rashid).

He received his bachelor of architecture degree in 1983 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and a masters of architecture degree in 1985 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA. In 1988 he co-founded with partner Lise Anne couture, Asymptote, architectural design and research practice, based in New York.

Asymptote has produced a body of work that has placed the practice at the forefront of architectural and interactive digital design. Asymptote's projects range from spatial experimentation and installations to building and urban design to computer
generated environments and architectures. They have created a virtual trading floor for the New York Stock Exchange and the Guggenheim virtual museum, which are fully navigable interactive multi-dimensional architectural environments. Other clients include the Osaka gas, the Kyoto Research Park and Knoll international. Hani Rashid was also one of two United States representatives who exhibited in the American Pavilion during the Venice biennale in 2000.