Mohsen Mostafavi

Alexander & Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA

Mohsen Mostafavi

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    Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander & Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), USA.

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    Mohsen Mostafavi (Chair) – Architect and Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA.

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    4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Workshop reporters present and discuss workshop findings (l-r): Mohsen Mostafavi (moderator), Harvard University; Chrisna du Plessis, University of Pretoria & Sanjay Prakash, Indian Institute for Human Settlements.

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    Professor Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass. and Head of the Holcim Awards jury for North America – presentation of the Holcim Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes.

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    Placing the Holcim Awards competition in the context of sustainable construction: Professor Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass. and Head of the Holcim Awards jury for North America.

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    Holcim Foundation Awards 2011 jury for North America

    The Holcim Awards jury for region North America met in Cambridge, MA, USA in July 2011 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Sheila Kennedy, Nader Tehrani, Harry Gugger, Mohsen Mostafavi (Head of Jury), Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Bernard Terver, Mark West, Ray Cole, and Keller Easterling.

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    Holcim Awards jury for North America 2008 - Cambridge, MA, USA

    The Holcim Awards jury for region North America met in Cambridge MA, USA in July 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Ray Cole, Mohsen Mostafavi, Sarah Graham, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Reed Kroloff, Adèle Naudé Santos (Head), Marion Weiss, Philippe Arto, Mark West.

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    The jury for region Europe nominated projects to receive a total of USD 220,000 prize money at a meeting on June 23/24, 2005, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland (L-R): Hansjürg Leibundgut, Brigitte Cuperus*, Mario Cucinella, Kaspar Wenger, Simon Keller*, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Marc Angélil, Matthias Sauerbruch, Anne-Françoise Jumeau, Mohsen Mostafavi, Radu Teacá, Cristina Díaz Moreno, Kees Christiaanse, José Morales Sánchez. * - denotes support staff at the regional jury meeting (photographed). Note that support staff were not present during the deliberations and selection of projects for the Awards.

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    Prof. Mohsen Mostafavi, Head of regional jury Europe, Dean, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell University and Past Chairman, Architectural Association (AA), United States

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    Mohsen Mostafavi, USA

Mohsen Mostafavi is Alexander & Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and was the head of the Global Holcim Foundation Awards jury in 2006 and 2015.

Last updated: June 18, 2024 Cambridge, MA, USA

He was Chair of the 4th Holcim Forum 2013 on “Economy of Sustainable Construction” in Mumbai. He was also Head of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2005 jury for Europe, and of the Awards 2008 jury for North America.

He served as Dean of the GSD from 2008 until 2019 and was previously Gale & Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art & Planning at Cornell University (2004-07), and also the Arthur L & Isabel B Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. He was Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London (1995-2004).

He is a member of the trustees of the Van Alen Institute, and serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. He served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA), and is involved as a consultant on a number of architectural and urban projects of international significance.

Mohsen Mostafavi studied architecture at the AA (1976), and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the University of Essex (1981) and the University of Cambridge (1984). He was a member of the master jury of the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture (2014-16).

His publications include Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (AA, 2006), Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (AA, 2004) and edited Ecological Urbanism (Lars Müller, 2015) with Gareth Doherty. His research and design projects have been published in The Architectural Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre and Daidalos.