Farshid Moussavi is Professor in Practice in the Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She trained at the GSD, University College London, the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Dundee University. Prior to establishing Foreign Office Architects (with Alejandro Zaera Polo) in London in 1992, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. Recognized as an outstanding and committed teacher, bringing a strong intellectual rigor to the discourse on architecture, she has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia, Princeton, and at several architecture schools in Europe; she was also the Kenzo Tange Visiting Design Critic at the GSD in spring 2005. She taught for eight years at the Architectural Association in London and was the head of the Institute of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she taught from 2002 until 2005.

Her London-based firm, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), is recognized as one of the most creative design firms in the world, deftly integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in their projects. They have produced numerous critically-acclaimed and award-winning international projects, most notably the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in Japan, an imaginative combination of industrial infrastructure and social function completed in 2002. Other built projects include a large new park with outdoor auditoriums in Barcelona, Spain; the Bluemoon Hotel in Groningen, The Netherlands; a police headquarters in La Villajoyosa, Spain; the Spanish Pavilion in the 2005 Aichi International Expo, Japan; a theater building in Torrevieja, Spain; a technology center in Logrono, Spain; social housing in Carabanchel, Spain; a retail complex and civic square in Meydan, Istanbul; a publisher’s headquarters in Paju, Korea; and a department store, cineplex and pedestrian bridges in Leicester, UK. FOA projects under construction include Franca Offices in Barcelona, Spain and a College of Art and Design in London, UK. The practice is also working on other major commissions including, in the UK, the Redevelopment of Euston Station in London, a large-scale office development in the City of London , a retail-led mixed-use development in Southampton, a retail and residential complex in Sheffield, the Redevelopment of Birmingham New Street Station and a new Maggie’s Cancer Centre in Newcastle, as well as residential projects towers in Busan, South Korea and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and a Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio.