Farshid Moussavi is an architect, principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA) and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA), recognized as one of the world's most creative design firms, integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in a wide range of projects internationally.
Moussavi has served on key design and architectural advisory panels and international design juries and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She has published extensively in professional magazines, is a columnist for the Architectural Review magazine and has published two books based on her research and teaching at Harvard, ‘The Function of Ornament’ and ‘The Function of Forms’. Her third book titled ‘the Function of Style’ will be release in autumn 2014.