We recommend on Friday the IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, following news a couple of weeks ago, we now have the opportunity to see at Iaac, Farshid Moussavi next Friday in Barcelona. Within the Lecture Series 2010/11.

Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

And this week, next Friday the Iaac, Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia, presents a lecture by Farshid Moussavi, during Lecture Series 2010/11.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona.
Date: Friday the 13th of May
Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm
Title: Farshid Moussavi: "Form and Ornament"
 

 

BOOK: "The Function of Form"

 In The Function of Form, Farshid Moussavi, provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially. Function and form, considered together in architecture, stand in opposition to the dualism which defined our approach to the built environment throughout the twentieth century. This book provides a thought-provoking account of the challenges facing the 21st century built environment, and an enlivened awareness of the wider possibilities of architectural form.

Autor: Farshid Moussavi. Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker
Language / ISBN: English [978-84-96954-73-1] Available
Cover: Hard Plastic   /  Illustrations:Duotone
Size: 17 x 22 cm.  /  Page Number: 520
Published by: ACTAR , Harvard Graduate School of Design
Price: International 35.00 €
Spain/Portugal 35.00 €
USA 39.95 $

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Farshid Moussavi, born in Iran in 1965. Studied architecture at Dundee University, University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She worked at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) before co-founding Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in 1995 where she worked until its demerger in May 2011. She is Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University, USA. She published "The Function of Ornament" in 2006, based on her research and teaching at Harvard, and the second volume, "The Function of Forms", in 2009.

Moussavi has also been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia and Princeton, and head of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As well as serving on numerous international design juries, she is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and Architecture Foundation in London, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FAM)

 

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