Gisue Hariri received her Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell University in 1980. After working with notable architectural firms in New York and San Francisco, she formed her own practice in 1986. Gisue has devoted time to teaching since 1987, to emphasize the importance of Academic and Philosophical discourse within the context of a professional practice. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, a Visiting Critic at Cornell University, Mc Gill and Parsons School of Design. Gisue has been sought out by many prestigious institutions and publications to serve on jury panels for their annual awards such as; SOM Foundation Award, AIA Design Awards, and ID Annual Design Awards. She has lectured on the work of Hariri & Hariri extensively at variety of institutions and architectural schools, notably Getty Center, Berkeley Art Museum, and Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, UCLA, SCI ARC, Syracuse, Rice University.