Mohsen Mostafavi

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Mohsen Mostafavi, an Iranian architect and educator, is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University[1].

Previously, he was Dean and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor of Architecture at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.[2]. Mostafavi was associate professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) from 1990 to 1995 and also director of the Masters of Architecture I program. He served for nine years as chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before his appointment as Dean at Cornell in 2004.

Mostafavi succeeded Harvard Graduate School of Design's Dean Alan Altshuler.

[edit] Published works

  • On weathering : the life of buildings in time with David Leatherbarrow (MIT Press, 1993)
  • Manuel Brullet with Josep Quetglas (G. Gili, 1998)
  • Approximations : the architecture of Peter Märkli (contributor) (MIT Press, 2002)
  • Landscape urbanism : a manual for the machinic landscape (Architectural Association, 2003)
  • The inversion principle : John Pickering (contributor) (Architectural Association, 2004)
  • Mathematical form : John Pickering and the architecture of the inversion principle (contributor) (Architectural Association, 2006)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Haggerty, Ryan. "Cornell dean will head Harvard design school", Boston Globe, 2007-08-11. Newsbank ID 11B01B8D5D4A0048. 
  2. ^ "Mostafavi quits AA: bitter election row sparks departure of chairman to US academic post", Building Design, 2004-04-23.