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Farshid Moussavi
Principal, Foreign Office Architects and Steering Committee Member for the 2007 Aga Khan Awards

Farshid Moussavi is an architect and founding partner in the firm “Foreign Office Architects” (FOA), and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. She trained at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and University College London prior to establishing Foreign Office Architects together with Alejandro Zaera Polo in 1992.

Farshid Moussavi’s London-based firm, Foreign Office Architects (FOA) is recognized as one of the most creative design firms in the world deftly integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in their projects. Foa has produced critical and award winning projects for the public and private sector internationally. Their most notable project to date is the Yokohama Ferry Terminal in Japan, an imaginative combination of industrial infrastructure and social function completed in 2002. Other completed projects in the far east include the Spanish Pavilion in the 2005 Aichi International Expo in Japan and a publisher’s headquarters in Paju, Korea. In Europe, Foa has completed numerous projects. In Spain, this has involved many public projects such as a large new park with outdoor auditoriums in Barcelona, a police headquarters in La Villajoyosa, a theater in Torrevieja, a technology center in Logrono, and social housing in Madrid. In the Netherlands, completed projects include the Bluemoon Hotel in Groningen. In the UK, the practice is currently working on major commissions including, a college of art and design in London, a large office complex in The City of London, a department store and Cineplex in Leicester, a large mixed use development in Southampton and the London 2012 Olympic Park and masterplan. In the US, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland.

Awards to the firm include: the Enric Miralles Prize for Architecture (2003); the Kanagawa Prize for Architecture in Japan (2003); three RIBA Worldwide Awards (2004, 2005 and 2006); the Special Award in Topography at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale (2004); the 2005 Charles Jencks Award for Architecture and, most recently the Architect of the Year Award from the Architectural Digest Magazine in Madrid. FOA represented Britain at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. The work of the firm has been widely exhibited and has been published in numerous monographs and catalogues.
In addition to her professional role as an architect, Farshid Moussavi is recognized as an outstanding and committed teacher, bringing a strong intellectual rigor to the discourse on architecture. Previous to her current role as Professor in Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), she has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia, Princeton, and at several architecture schools in Europe including the Architectural Association in London where she taught for eight years and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she taught for three years and acted as the head of the Architecture Institute. Since November 2005, Farshid Moussavi has been appointed to the steering committee of the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, having previously served as chairperson of the master jury for the 2004 Award. She is also part of the Design and Architecture Advisory Group to the British Council and a member of the London Mayor’s new ‘Design for London’ Advisory Group.