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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.
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 Awards jury in 2006 and 2015.
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Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander & Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, MA, USA.
He served as Dean of the GSD from 2008 until 2019.
He 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 Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at Harvard GSD and has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts.
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.
He was a member of the master jury of the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture (2014-16).
He was the Chair of the 4th International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on the theme of “Economy of Sustainable Construction” in Mumbai, India in April 2013.
Mohsen Mostafavi was head of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2006 and 2015, Head of the regional jury for Europe in 2005, and Head of the regional jury for North America in 2008.
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