Farshid Moussavi RA
Farshid Moussavi RA
Farshid Moussavi, OBE RA is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Prior to founding FMA, her London-based practice, she was co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA). She has published, in conjunction with Harvard University, an influential series of books: The Function of Ornament (2006), The Function of Form (2009), and The Function of Style (2014). She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2015, and was appointed Professor of Architecture in the RA Schools in 2017.
In The Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2018, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to architecture. She was the chair of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004, and a member of its steering committee between 2005 and 2015. She has served as a trustee of several organizations, including the Whitechapel Gallery and The Architecture Foundation in London between 2009 and 2018, and, since 2018, the Norman Foster Foundation and New Architecture Writers (NAW), which focuses on emerging Black and minority ethnic writers who are under-represented in design journalism and curation.
In 2022, she was awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture.
Profile
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 11 March 2015
Professor of Architecture: 2017 - 2022
Gender: Female
Visit Farshid Moussavi RA's website
Preferred media: Architecture
Works by Farshid Moussavi in the RA Collection
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Gallery
![Yokohama International Passenger Port Terminal, Japan]()
Yokohama International Passenger Port Terminal, Japan
![John Lewis Department Store, Leicester, UK]()
John Lewis Department Store, Leicester, UK
![Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA]()
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
![Folie Divine Residential Tower, Montpellier, France]()
Folie Divine Residential Tower, Montpellier, France
![Residential Block, La-Defense-Nanterre, France]()
Residential Block, La-Defense-Nanterre, France
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Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London, UK
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Farshid Moussavi RA – Selected CV
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Selected completed projects
2021 Private residence, Hove, UK
2019 Ismaili Cultural Center, Houston, USA
2018 Hepworth Wakefield- exhibition
2018 Harrods World, London UK
2017 Harrods Toys Department, London, UK
2017 Residential Complex, Montpellier, France
2017 Residential Complex, La Défense, Paris, France
2017 The Zabludowicz Collection Gallery, London, UK
2015 Private Villa, Sussex, UK
2016 Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London, UK
2016 Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
2014 Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London, UK
2013 130 Fenchurch Street Office Complex, London, UK
2013 Les Jardins de la Lironde Residential Complex, Montpellier, France
2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
2011 La Défense Residential Complex, Paris, France
2010 Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London, UK
2008 John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester, UK
2007 Social housing in Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain
2007 Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
2006 Municipal Theatre, Torrevieja, Spain
2005 Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 International Expo, Aichi, Japan
2004 Coastal park with outdoor auditoriums, Barcelona
2002 Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, Japan -
Selected exhibitions
2022 The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present, The Drawing Centre, New York
2021 Separation and unity Lot 19 Residential Block, Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
2019 Is this Tomorrow? Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2018 Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, Exhibition, The Hepworth Wakefield
2018 From Life, Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2017 Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
2012 Architecture and Affects, at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
2011 World Trade Centre Bundle Tower, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2010 Why Design Now?, Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial, USA
2008 Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion & Architecture, London, Tokyo, LA
2007 Love & Money: the Best of British Design Now, British Council
2006 Hypothetical Slide House, Carsten Holler’s Unilever Series Show at the Tate Modern, London UK
2005 Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape, MoMA, USA
2003 Monographic Show at the Institute of COntemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
2002 Selected by the British Council to create a site-specific installation to represent Britain at the 8th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy
1999 Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, UK
1995 Monolithic Architecture, Heinz Architectural Center, Pitssburgh, USA -
Selected publications
2022 Architecture and Micropolitics: Four Projects by Farshid Moussavi Architecture, 2010-2020, Park Books, Zurich, Switzerland
The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present, The Drawing Centre, New York
2018 Project Interrupted: Lectures by British Housing Architects, The Architecture Foundation, UK
2015 The Function of Style, Harvard GSD, FunctionLab and Actar, Barcelona, Spain
2009 The Function of Form, Harvard GSD and Actar, Barcelona, Spain
2006 The Function of Ornament with Michael Kubo, published by Harvard GSD and Actar, Barcelona, Spain
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