Sami Hassid held degrees from universities in three countries, including a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of London, a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Cairo, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University. In 1957 he joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Hassid’s main lines of research were in architectural education, design evaluation, housing, and fire and life safety. He is known for his seminal work on design evaluation, and for his series of reports and articles on research in which jury deliberations, responses to simulated environments, and content analysis of the literature on architects, their buildings and prize designs are used to derive rational criteria for design evaluation. He was principal investigator on projects sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Navy, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, and the National Science Foundation. In 1966, he received the Building Research Institute Award for Service to the Building Industry. Hassid’s professional architectural career included practice as principal or partner in Egypt and in California. Singly, or in association with others, he won a substantial number of prizes in local, national, and international competitions. Buildings he designed include the American Institute of Architect’s headquarters in San Francisco, a student hostel for the American University in Cairo, schools, houses, apartment buildings, shops, offices, cooperative housing, and industrial complexes. Hassid’s designs have been praised for their simplicity and elegance, and for economy in the choice and expression of materials.