[1] In 1985, he received a master of architecture degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

[4] Significant projects include 166 Perry Street, a luxury residential building in Manhattan's West Village,[5] the Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi[6] a luxury hotel and one of the main architectural features of the new Yas Marina development and accompanying Formula 1 raceway circuit in Abu Dhabi, and the HydraPier Pavilion in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands.

In 2004, he received a professorship at the Cátedra Luis Barragán in Monterrey, Mexico, and from 2006 to 2009 he was a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

In 2008, Rashid was the recipient of the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor Chair at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

[5][16] Also in 2004, Hani Rashid together with his partner Lise Anne Couture was awarded the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.