Education
Previously, he was Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at Harvard University"s Graduate School of Design.
Previously, he was Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at Harvard University"s Graduate School of Design.
He is the Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has been the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, and the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Dean Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the board of the Van Alen Institute, and on numerous university committees including the Harvard University Committee on Common Spaces.
Mostafavi received a diploma in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1976 and undertook research on Counter-Reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge.
Mostafavi has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule). His research and design projects have been published in many journals, including The Architectural Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre, and Daidalos.
Some of his publications include: On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time (with David Leatherbarrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) recipient of the American Institute of Architects prize for writing on architectural theory. Approximations (Associate of Arts/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002).
Surface Architecture (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002) recipient of the CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award.
Logique Visuelle (Idea Books, 2003), Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (Associate of Arts Publications, 2004), Structure as Space (Associate of Arts Publications, 2006), Ecological Urbanism (Lars Müller Publishers 2010), and Nicholas Hawksmoor: London Churches (Lars Müller Publishers 2013).
He has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA), the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal, the Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Europe in 2005, a Member of the Global jury in 2006, a Member of the jury for North America in 2008, the Head of the jury for North America and is currently involved as a consultant on a number of international architectural and urban projects.
