A school of architectural thinking
Los Angeles, CA
Request InformationMonday, March 28, 7pm in the W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Farshid Moussavi
Founder, Farshid Moussavi Architecture, Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA). Moussavi completed her first USA commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland (2012), its installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012) and The Victoria Beckham Flagship Store in London (2014). She is currently working on a wide range of prestigious international projects including residential complexes in the La Défense district of Paris and in Montpellier, as well as a department store in Paris, France, and an office complex in London. At her previous practice (FOA), she co-authored many award-winning projects including the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal and the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi International Expo in Japan; the John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex in Leicester, UK; in Spain, the South-East Coastal Park in Barcelona, the Municipal Theatre and Auditorium in Torrevieja, and the Carabanchel Social Housing in Madrid; as well as the Meydan Retail Complex in Istanbul, Turkey. Moussavi trained at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, University College London and Dundee University. She has subsequently taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Architectural Association, the Berlage Institute and the Hoger Architectuure Instituut, Columbia, Princeton and the University of California at Los Angeles. Since 2006, she has been Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Function of Ornament (2006) and The Function of Form (2009). Since September 2011, Moussavi has been writing as a columnist for the Architectural Review magazine.
