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This monograph presents recent work by architects Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi. The current trend in both architectural practice and criticism toward extremities in theory has in some circles ruled out a discussion of actual buildings. Excluded from such discourse is the "middle ground" of architecture - the space of the building itself. The work of Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi forces a reconsideration of this middle ground as more than the site of daily functioning but as "that which instigates the activities it also contains and presents."
Homa Fardjadi is a partner in the architectural office of Fardjadi-Mostafavi Associates. She was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Fardjadi has taught at the AA School of Architecture, London, the University of Pennsylvania, and at Yale University School of Architecture where she was the Bishop Professor of Architecture in 1992.
Mohsen Mostafavi is a partner in the architectural office of Fardjadi-Mostafavi Associates. He was Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Mostafavi is author with Dalibor Vesely of Architecture and Continuity (1982) and with David Leatherbarrow of On Weathering: The Life of a Building in Time (1993).
Contributors
Peter Carl teaches in the graduate programs in architecture at Cambridge University. He has taught architecture studios in both Europe and the United States. The author of numerous publications, his recent articles include "Nature Morta," Modulus 20 and "Ornament and Time," AA Files 22-23. He is currently completing a study of Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp. K. Michael Hays, Professor of Architectural Theory, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, is a founding editor of Assemblage. He has written extensively on contemporary issues in architectural theory and is the author of Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject (1992). Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Dean at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, is the author of Making a Middle Landscape (1991), Design Thinking (1987), and coauthor of Principles for Local Environmental Management (1978). His latest book, Modernity and Housing was published by the MIT Press in 1993. 147 pages. 1994.
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Delayed Space: Particularizing the General - Peter G. Rowe
Delayed Effects - K. Michael Hays
Delayed Space: Performance and the Labors of Architecture - Homa Fardjadi
Renovation and the Howling Void - Peter Carl
PROJECTS
Matteson Library
Municipal Building, Mobile
Ulug Beg Cultural Center, Samarkand
Cultural Park, Athens
Ackerman/Slosburg-Ackerman Residence
Evanston Library
Residence, Dover
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/4.15.04/Mostafavi_dean_AAP.html
By Linda Myers
Mohsen Mostafavi has been named dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman announced April 14.
Mostafavi
Mostafavi, a U.S. citizen who studied at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and the University of Cambridge, has served as chairman (equivalent to dean) of the AA since 1995. His Cornell appointment will begin July 1.
Lehman said: "Mohsen Mostafavi is a true intellectual and a talented academic leader. He brings to Cornell an international reputation built upon an impressive track record of success on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the respect of some of the world's most renowned architectural practitioners and theorists. I am delighted he is joining Cornell's academic leadership."
On the heels of two successful terms as chairman of the AA, London's leading school of architecture, Mostafavi's Cornell appointment crowns an already prestigious career that includes a stint as director of the Master of Architecture 1 Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. A much-recognized author, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cambridge and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Staedeschule). A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architects' Registration Board of the United Kingdom, Cornell's new dean served on the Royal Institute of British Architects' Gold Medal Selection Committee and is a member of the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Provost Biddy Martin, who oversaw the search, stated: "I am enthusiastic about Mohsen Mostafavi's appointment and look forward to working with him. The committee that recommended him worked hard to find the best candidate for this important position. Their work has yielded a new dean who will not only be a strong and creative leader of the college, but also will play a significant role more broadly across the university. I am confident that the college and university will achieve a great deal under his leadership."
Commenting on the news of the appointment, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas, who did graduate work at Cornell, said, "After establishing the AA as one of today's greatest schools, Mohsen Mostafavi, I am sure, will help to write an exciting new chapter for Cornell."
Mostafavi is credited with bringing breadth and innovation to the highly influential London school, which has produced such stars as Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, among others. Colleagues and peers agree that Mostafavi brought the British school up to speed technologically, instilled financial stability and forged critical alliances with other leading institutions. Koolhaas called him "an excellent academic leader on campus, open to developments, sharp, respectful and respected."
Sharing much of the same enthusiasm about his colleague of nine years, Paul Hyett, vice president of the Architectural Association Council and past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, summed up his views by saying, "Mostafavi is not only a great teacher and innovator with a fine publications record, but also a trustworthy administrator with excellent financial management skills."
Mostafavi's projects and writings underscore a keen interest in building surfaces and how they change over time. He has a preference for "landscape-sliding borders," rather than rigid ones. Surface Architecture, a book by Mostafavi with David Leatherbarrow (MIT Press, 2002), received the CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award 2003 for the most significant contribution to architectural criticism. His book On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, also with Leatherbarrow (MIT Press, 1993), won the American Institute of Architects' commendation prize for writing on architectural theory. He is the co-author of Delayed Space, with Homa Farjadi (Princeton Architectural Press, 1994).
Mostafavi edited and contributed to a number of publications, among them Approximations: The Architecture of Peter Märkli (MIT Press, 2002) and Logique Visuelle, a book on architecture and fashion. He has published in such prestigious journals as Architectural Review, Arquitectura and Daidalos. He edited and contributed to Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004) and the forthcoming Structure as Space, on the work of the Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett (both with AA Publications).
Mostafavi attended Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, from 1981 to 1984, the University of Essex Department of Art from 1976 to 1981 and the AA from 1972 to 1976.
When he assumes his new responsibilities as dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Mostafavi will succeed Porus Olpadwala, who, having served in this capacity since 1999, will return to his former position of professor in the college's Department of City and Regional Planning.
Founded in 1871, the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has three academic departments -- Architecture, Art, and City and Regional Planning -- and approximately 50 faculty members, 500 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Under the organizing umbrella of the "built environment," it offers programs at the Ithaca campus and in Rome that range from urban policy and planning to architectural design, history and theory; from art practice in every medium to cultural and visual studies.
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Surface Architecture
David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi
Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.
Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron.
The properties of a building's surface--whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials--are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.
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http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/lectures/index.shtm
Rem Koolhaas
Tuesday 17 February
Rem Koolhaas (right)
and Mohsen Mostafavi
OMA AMO AA Lecture
November 2002.
Click for audio extract.
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http://www.pabook.com/detail.asp?id=187827189X
DELAYED SPACE, Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Rowe, Peter, fwd.
Architects - FARDJADI/MOSTAFAVI
1993, 130 pp, 30 color, 50 b&w illus. Integration of the theoretical in built space that 'instigates the activities it also contains and presents.' Forward by Peter Rowe.
Paperback
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http://www.archinform.net/arch/13911.htm?ID=AspgSSGBFvzsGzKQ
Mohsen Mostafavi is the director of the Architectural Association in London.
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publications
Approximations
The Architecture of Peter Märkli
M. Meili, M. Mostafavi, P. Märkli
Architectural Association Publications; 2002
Delayed Space
M. Mostafavi, H. Fardjadi
Princeton Architectural Press; 1994
Berlin Free University: Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm (Exemplary Projects)
A. Tzonis, G. Wagner, L. Lefaivre, M. Schiedhelm, M. Mostafavi, P. Smithson, C. Tashima, G. Feld
Architectural Association Publications; 1999
Thermal Bath at Vals (Exemplary Projects)
M. Mostafavi, P. Zumthor
Architectural Association Publications; 1996
Surface Architecture
D. Leatherbarrow, M. Mostafavi
MIT Press; 2002
On Weathering
The Life of Buildings in Time
M. Mostafavi, D. Leatherbarrow
MIT Press; 1993
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
M. Mostafavi, R. Evans
MIT Press; 1997
Approximations
The Architecture of Peter Märkli
P. Märkli, M. Mostafavi, M. Meili
MIT Press; 2002
Barkow Leibinger
Werkbericht 1993-2001 | Workreport 1993-2001
G. Wagner, M. Mostafavi, R. Leibinger, F. Barkow
Birkhäuser Verlag; 2001
- 70 Farb- und 150 SW-Abbildungen.
Kahn y el dilema de la modernidad | Kahn and the dilemma of modernity
in: Arquitectura: revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 1992,291
M. Mostafavi
p. 98 - 103
- exhibition review
- includes bibliographical references.
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This monograph presents recent work by architects Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi. The current trend in both architectural practice and criticism toward extremities in theory has in some circles ruled out a discussion of actual buildings. Excluded from such discourse is the "middle ground" of architecture - the space of the building itself. The work of Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi forces a reconsideration of this middle ground as more than the site of daily functioning but as "that which instigates the activities it also contains and presents."
Homa Fardjadi is a partner in the architectural office of Fardjadi-Mostafavi Associates. She was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Fardjadi has taught at the AA School of Architecture, London, the University of Pennsylvania, and at Yale University School of Architecture where she was the Bishop Professor of Architecture in 1992.
Mohsen Mostafavi is a partner in the architectural office of Fardjadi-Mostafavi Associates. He was Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Mostafavi is author with Dalibor Vesely of Architecture and Continuity (1982) and with David Leatherbarrow of On Weathering: The Life of a Building in Time (1993).
Contributors
Peter Carl teaches in the graduate programs in architecture at Cambridge University. He has taught architecture studios in both Europe and the United States. The author of numerous publications, his recent articles include "Nature Morta," Modulus 20 and "Ornament and Time," AA Files 22-23. He is currently completing a study of Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp. K. Michael Hays, Professor of Architectural Theory, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, is a founding editor of Assemblage. He has written extensively on contemporary issues in architectural theory and is the author of Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject (1992). Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Dean at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, is the author of Making a Middle Landscape (1991), Design Thinking (1987), and coauthor of Principles for Local Environmental Management (1978). His latest book, Modernity and Housing was published by the MIT Press in 1993. 147 pages. 1994.
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Delayed Space: Particularizing the General - Peter G. Rowe
Delayed Effects - K. Michael Hays
Delayed Space: Performance and the Labors of Architecture - Homa Fardjadi
Renovation and the Howling Void - Peter Carl
PROJECTS
Matteson Library
Municipal Building, Mobile
Ulug Beg Cultural Center, Samarkand
Cultural Park, Athens
Ackerman/Slosburg-Ackerman Residence
Evanston Library
Residence, Dover
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/4.15.04/Mostafavi_dean_AAP.html
By Linda Myers
Mohsen Mostafavi has been named dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman announced April 14.
Mostafavi
Mostafavi, a U.S. citizen who studied at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and the University of Cambridge, has served as chairman (equivalent to dean) of the AA since 1995. His Cornell appointment will begin July 1.
Lehman said: "Mohsen Mostafavi is a true intellectual and a talented academic leader. He brings to Cornell an international reputation built upon an impressive track record of success on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the respect of some of the world's most renowned architectural practitioners and theorists. I am delighted he is joining Cornell's academic leadership."
On the heels of two successful terms as chairman of the AA, London's leading school of architecture, Mostafavi's Cornell appointment crowns an already prestigious career that includes a stint as director of the Master of Architecture 1 Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. A much-recognized author, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cambridge and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Staedeschule). A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architects' Registration Board of the United Kingdom, Cornell's new dean served on the Royal Institute of British Architects' Gold Medal Selection Committee and is a member of the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Provost Biddy Martin, who oversaw the search, stated: "I am enthusiastic about Mohsen Mostafavi's appointment and look forward to working with him. The committee that recommended him worked hard to find the best candidate for this important position. Their work has yielded a new dean who will not only be a strong and creative leader of the college, but also will play a significant role more broadly across the university. I am confident that the college and university will achieve a great deal under his leadership."
Commenting on the news of the appointment, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas, who did graduate work at Cornell, said, "After establishing the AA as one of today's greatest schools, Mohsen Mostafavi, I am sure, will help to write an exciting new chapter for Cornell."
Mostafavi is credited with bringing breadth and innovation to the highly influential London school, which has produced such stars as Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, among others. Colleagues and peers agree that Mostafavi brought the British school up to speed technologically, instilled financial stability and forged critical alliances with other leading institutions. Koolhaas called him "an excellent academic leader on campus, open to developments, sharp, respectful and respected."
Sharing much of the same enthusiasm about his colleague of nine years, Paul Hyett, vice president of the Architectural Association Council and past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, summed up his views by saying, "Mostafavi is not only a great teacher and innovator with a fine publications record, but also a trustworthy administrator with excellent financial management skills."
Mostafavi's projects and writings underscore a keen interest in building surfaces and how they change over time. He has a preference for "landscape-sliding borders," rather than rigid ones. Surface Architecture, a book by Mostafavi with David Leatherbarrow (MIT Press, 2002), received the CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award 2003 for the most significant contribution to architectural criticism. His book On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, also with Leatherbarrow (MIT Press, 1993), won the American Institute of Architects' commendation prize for writing on architectural theory. He is the co-author of Delayed Space, with Homa Farjadi (Princeton Architectural Press, 1994).
Mostafavi edited and contributed to a number of publications, among them Approximations: The Architecture of Peter Märkli (MIT Press, 2002) and Logique Visuelle, a book on architecture and fashion. He has published in such prestigious journals as Architectural Review, Arquitectura and Daidalos. He edited and contributed to Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004) and the forthcoming Structure as Space, on the work of the Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett (both with AA Publications).
Mostafavi attended Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, from 1981 to 1984, the University of Essex Department of Art from 1976 to 1981 and the AA from 1972 to 1976.
When he assumes his new responsibilities as dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Mostafavi will succeed Porus Olpadwala, who, having served in this capacity since 1999, will return to his former position of professor in the college's Department of City and Regional Planning.
Founded in 1871, the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has three academic departments -- Architecture, Art, and City and Regional Planning -- and approximately 50 faculty members, 500 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Under the organizing umbrella of the "built environment," it offers programs at the Ithaca campus and in Rome that range from urban policy and planning to architectural design, history and theory; from art practice in every medium to cultural and visual studies.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=33F497B3-B738-4A81-848D-9BC2B41A0B3D&ttype=2&tid=8802
Surface Architecture
David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi
Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.
Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron.
The properties of a building's surface--whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials--are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/lectures/index.shtm
Rem Koolhaas
Tuesday 17 February
Rem Koolhaas (right)
and Mohsen Mostafavi
OMA AMO AA Lecture
November 2002.
Click for audio extract.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.pabook.com/detail.asp?id=187827189X
DELAYED SPACE, Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Rowe, Peter, fwd.
Architects - FARDJADI/MOSTAFAVI
1993, 130 pp, 30 color, 50 b&w illus. Integration of the theoretical in built space that 'instigates the activities it also contains and presents.' Forward by Peter Rowe.
Paperback
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.archinform.net/arch/13911.htm?ID=AspgSSGBFvzsGzKQ
Mohsen Mostafavi is the director of the Architectural Association in London.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
publications
Approximations
The Architecture of Peter Märkli
M. Meili, M. Mostafavi, P. Märkli
Architectural Association Publications; 2002
Delayed Space
M. Mostafavi, H. Fardjadi
Princeton Architectural Press; 1994
Berlin Free University: Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm (Exemplary Projects)
A. Tzonis, G. Wagner, L. Lefaivre, M. Schiedhelm, M. Mostafavi, P. Smithson, C. Tashima, G. Feld
Architectural Association Publications; 1999
Thermal Bath at Vals (Exemplary Projects)
M. Mostafavi, P. Zumthor
Architectural Association Publications; 1996
Surface Architecture
D. Leatherbarrow, M. Mostafavi
MIT Press; 2002
On Weathering
The Life of Buildings in Time
M. Mostafavi, D. Leatherbarrow
MIT Press; 1993
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
M. Mostafavi, R. Evans
MIT Press; 1997
Approximations
The Architecture of Peter Märkli
P. Märkli, M. Mostafavi, M. Meili
MIT Press; 2002
Barkow Leibinger
Werkbericht 1993-2001 | Workreport 1993-2001
G. Wagner, M. Mostafavi, R. Leibinger, F. Barkow
Birkhäuser Verlag; 2001
- 70 Farb- und 150 SW-Abbildungen.
Kahn y el dilema de la modernidad | Kahn and the dilemma of modernity
in: Arquitectura: revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 1992,291
M. Mostafavi
p. 98 - 103
- exhibition review
- includes bibliographical references.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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