Farshid Moussavi

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Farshid Moussavi (Born 1965 in Shiraz, Iran) is an internationally recognized Iranian born architect.

Farshid Moussavi is Professor in Practice in the Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Educated at Harvard, the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, and the University of Dundee, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam prior to establishing her firm Foreign Office Architects (with her husband Alejandro Zaera Polo) in London in 1992.

She also designed a modern theater in 1997 (called The "Azadi Cineplex") for Abbas Abad in Tehran, which was not received by Iran's Ministry of Culture.

Her proposal for the new World Trade Center in New York was widely praised, and her works have been presented by the likes of Toyo Ito.

She has been a faculty of The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna since 2002.

Recent publications include The Function of Ornament (Actar, Barcelona, 2007)