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Farshid Moussavi
- Site : https://www.farshidmoussavi.com/
- Adresse : 130 fenchurch street ec3m 5dj London
FARSHID MOUSSAVI OBE RA
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Farshid Moussavi OBE RA is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Moussavi’s approach is characterised by an openness to change and a commitment to the intellectual and cultural life of architecture. Alongside leading an award-winning architectural practice, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she lectures regularly at arts institutions and schools of architecture worldwide and is a published author. Moussavi was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to architecture. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2017.
At FMA, Moussavi’s completed projects include the acclaimed Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, USA; La Folie Divine, a residential complex in Montpellier; a multi-tenure residential complex in the La Défense district of Paris, and flagship stores for Victoria Beckham in London and Hong Kong. Previously Moussavi was co-founder of the internationally renowned London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA) where she co-authored many award-winning international projects including the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal and the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi International Expo, London’s Ravensbourne College of Media and Communication and the Leicester John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex.
Moussavi’s ideas and work are at the forefront of critical debate about architecture. In 2017 she was Architectural curator of the Royal Academy Summer Show where she proposed a highly original approach, showing the internal mechanisms and construction process that underpins architecture. Her work is deeply rooted in critical research which she carries out through FunctionLab, the research branch of FMA. FunctionLab explores cultural questions that find actualisation in the building commissions of the office, allowing for informed and innovative results. With the influential series of books that Moussavi published with Harvard, The Function of…, she has explored the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style.
Educated at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, University College London and Dundee University, Moussavi has taught and served as External Examiner in academic institutions worldwide. 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 continues to be a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery since 2009, and since 2018, a trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation London and New Architecture Writers (NAW) which focuses on black and minority ethnic emerging writers who are under-represented across design journalism and curation. Moussavi also serves on the Academic Court of The London School of Architecture.
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Carabanchel social housing
The Carabanchel social housing project is one hundred social housing units on the outskirts of Madrid. Its site, located within a regeneration area, is bounded by a new urban park on the west and on the north, east and south with similar housing blocks. Regulations set the number of units and the percentages of every size. The maximum height was also a constraint, but not the alignment within the rectangular plot. Given the adjacency to the future urban park and the north-south orientation of the site, the complex is designed as a compact volume within the given height to provide a private garden for the units on the eastern side and to produce double aspect units facing both gardens. In order to achieve this, the units were arranged as elongated “tubes” that connect both façades. The compactness of the block provided the additional advantage of enabling the facades to be fully glazed façades. The glazed façades are lined with a 1.5 m wide terrace which provides a semi exterior private space for all units enclosed with bamboo screens mounted on folding frames. The screens protect the glazed surfaces from the strong east-west solar exposure, and can be opened to the side gardens when desired. The screens not only acts as a shading device, they also provide the residents with maximum amount of privacy space, and flexibility over their use of the terraces. Moreover, they erase the visibility of borders between the different units and enable the complex to be expressed as a single volume. The final expression of the complex, given the free movement of screens by the residents, is one that is forever changing following primary the cumulative effect of individuals’ choices.
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