Farshid Moussavi’s Work at MoMA
On a trip to MoMA this weekend I discovered that renowned Iranian architect Farshid Moussavi and her architect husband Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s prints of digital CAD files of the Yokohama International Port Terminal (click for the photo) are MoMA’s first acquisition of that medium for the new, ongoing collection there called Digitally Mastered. Unfortunately flash wasn’t allowed and I was being jostled by passerby, so the photo is a little blurry, and MoMA’s online catalog of the architects’ work there doesn’t have any images posted. But thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can see photos of the finished Yokohama Terminal, which catapulted the pair’s firm, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), into architecture superstardom. Their work blurs lines between structure and landscape – “flowing” is an adjective frequently used to describe it.
I wrote a longer post about MoMA on my friend Lizzie’s design blog, DESIGNWatcher, but thought it was worth mentioning Moussavi, who is faculty at Harvard, here as well. If you want to learn more, the BBC program Woman’s Hour has an audio interview with her, Britain’s Design Museum has a great page on FOA, and you can check out The Function of Ornament, which Moussavi co-edited.
(Photo: via AUB)
