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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Meydan Retail Complex
The Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex performs not just a as an efficient retail complex but as an urban centre in one of the fastest growing areas of Istanbul. Located in a suburban area on the Asian sector of Istanbul, the site borders an IKEA as well residential plots to be developed in the near future. Through its geometry and circulation strategy, the Meydan complex anticipates its subsequent integration into a dense inner-city context as an alternative to the usual out-of-town retail box development.
The different retail spaces are clustered together and parking is placed underground, liberating ground for a large urban square in the centre of the complex. The central square is activated though a number of pedestrian routes which link the underground car park to the ground level and are accessible from the wider city context though two new routes across the roofs of the retail spaces. The different retail spaces are connected with one another and form a ring like continuous volume around the central square. Roofs of these retail spaces, some of them sloping, are designed as gardens with extensive vegetation. Ramps connect the level of the central square with the roofs of the retail spaces which coincide with levels of the surrounding neighborhood. In addition to the physical continuity created between the retail spaces and the surrounding context, roof lights introduced to the retail areas create visual contact between the shops and the roof gardens.
Meydan is a different model of retail to the common out of town retail sheds such as IKEA which are designed as sheds deployed onto an asphalt platform and surrounded by car parks. Instead of a car park, shoppers move through a public square which is physically connected with the urban space beyond and visually surrounded at once with retail space and roof gardens.
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