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  • Farshid Moussavi
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  • Exhibitions
    • 14.02.2019 Is This Tomorrow?
    • 13.06.2017 Architecture Room, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition
    • 30.09.2014 Grounded Visionaries: Pedagogy + Practice Exhibition
    • 30.09.2012 Arquitecto en femenino
    • 31.07.2012 Common Ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale
    • 27.10.2011 WTC 1 - The Bundle Tower
    • 31.12.2010 La Ville Fertile
    • 27.10.2010 Why Design Now?
    • 27.10.2010 New World Architectur' at 'The City and the World'
    • 20.06.2010 RIBA Fifty Buildings, 50 years
    • 27.04.2010 Internationale Bienniale of Design
    • 19.08.2009 Dentelles d'architecture
    • 20.03.2009 Gwangju Design Biennale
    • 19.08.2008 Future Non-Future
    • 25.06.2008 Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture'
    • 11.03.2006 Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
    • 15.09.2007 Retrospective show
    • 13.07.2007 Love & Money - the Best of British Design Now
    • 22.08.2006 Hypothetical Slide House
    • 12.07.2006 Future City Exhibition
    • 17.11.2005 Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
    • 16.06.2004 Monographic show on FOA
    • 21.09.2004 FOA's phyolgenesis
  • Publications
  • Function
  • Year
  • Status
  • Scale
  • Location
  • Culture
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • Residential
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • Retail
    • Harrods World
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Office
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Education
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
  • Leisure
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • Transport
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
  • Public Space
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Landscape
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Masterplan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Exhibitions
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • Civic
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • Furniture
    • Wooden Bench
  • 2019
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
  • 2018
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
  • 2017
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
  • 2016
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
  • 2015
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • BHV, Paris
  • 2014
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 2013
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • 2012
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2011
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
  • 2010
    • Ravensbourne College, London
  • 2008
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • 2007
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • 2006
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
  • 2005
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
  • 2004
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • 2003
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • 2002
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • 2001
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • 1999
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Built
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Ongoing
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Private House, Hove
    • Harrods World
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
  • Others
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
  • < 1,000 m²
    • Private House, Hove
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • 1,000 - 5,000 m²
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
  • 5,000 - 10,000 m²
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 10,000 - 50,000 m²
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • > 50,000 m²
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • Europe
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Middle East
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • North America
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Asia
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong

FMA is a London-based international architectural practice founded in 2011 by the award-winning architect Farshid Moussavi. Among its completed projects are the acclaimed Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art in Ohio, the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale installation ‘Architecture and its Affects’ and the Victoria Beckham Flagship Store in London. FMA is currently working on a range of prestigious international projects including an office complex in the City of London and a residential complex in the La Défense area of the city. Recently, FMA was shortlisted for the competition to design the Interactive Gallery at The Science Museum in London. Before forming FMA, Farshid Moussavi co-founded Foreign Office Architects (FOA) where she co-authored the design of many award-winning projects including the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in Japan, the Meydan retail complex in Istanbul, and the Carabanchel social housing complex in Madrid. Having lectured extensively on architecture worldwide, Farshid Moussavi has been a Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2006. Farshid Moussavi and her colleagues at FMA have extensive experience of projects with diverse functions for both the public and private sector, and of working internationally. They are also engaged in critical research through FMA’s research arm, FunctionLab, and the publication of “The Function of…” series of books on architectural theory. As a result, FMA has a wealth of knowledge and perspectives of urban and architectural problems, and the agility required to work within different cultures.

Three main principles guide FMA’s work:

Function
FMA believes that since the relationships between each building function and individuals are articulated through the actuality of built forms or their physical presence, the agency of architects lies in how they assemble the physical elements of that built form so as to reframe the conventional relations between individuals and that function, to inspire them to engage with it in new ways.

Materiality
Architecture is a material practice, not a matter-practice. Architectural materials include the non-physical and physical attributes that define the built environment: politics, climate, time, construction technologies and economics as well as wood, glass and steel. FMA treats these materials as extrinsic and intrinsic parameters that generate the assembly of each of its built forms, avoiding form for the sake of form alone.

Architecture
FMA regards architecture as an integral part of everyday life and an active agent in shaping culture. The dynamic nature of culture requires that buildings have an in-built sense of order, a consistency against which we can test our experience. FMA’s work generates these internal orders in built forms by each time assembling them in such a way as to construct a unique transversal organization across the complex array of relevant materials. Each FMA project accordingly has a singular physical presence with a new sense of order relative to the multifarious materials that relate to it and it shapes people’s experience of everyday life in unique ways.

FunctionLab, FMA’s research arm, aims to critically examine the discipline of design, its tools and concepts on an ongoing basis to ensure they remain relevant within the constantly changing built environment. FunctionLab’s research projects are developed in tandem with FMA’s building commissions in order to create a feedback loop between practical questions raised in practice and research carried out in a projective manner. FunctionLab projects carried out alongside the ongoing FMA practice include research into the potential for a new approach to ornament in blank retail typologies, the potential to reinvent different structural systems by using digital design tools and fabrication techniques, and alternatives to the ‘white cube’ gallery in contemporary art museums to cater for increasingly diverse contemporary art forms. In addition to architecture-specific research projects, FunctionLab acts as a platform for FMA to engage in direct and indirect collaborative projects with experts from other fields on topical issues. These collaborations take different forms including regular in-house seminars, short pamphlets and longer term publications disseminated via its online platform.

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