Farshid Moussavi is founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), based in London. In October 2012, FMA’s first museum building and first building in America - the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, in the USA - opened to the public and in August 2012, its installation, titled ‘Architecture and Affects’, featured at the 13th edition of Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy. FMA is currently working on number of international projects including, in France, residential complexes in Montpellier and La Défense district of Paris, and a department store in Paris, as well as a residential tower in London, UK. The practice was a finalist for the Museum and Educational Centre of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov Moscow State University competition. Farshid Moussavi has served on numerous design committees including the Mayor of London’s Design for London Advisory Group and LDA International Design Committee, the RIBA Gold and Presidents Medals, the Stirling Prize and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She was Chair of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004, and has remained a member of the Award’s Steering Committee since then. She has also been an External Examiner for the Royal College of Art in London. In 2013, joined the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design of London Metropolitan University as an External Examiner. In 2009, Moussavi became a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery as well as the Architecture Foundation in London. Moussavi is also a columnist for the Architectural Review magazine. |
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