Dinner with Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, January 6th, 2010GSD alumni and dues-paying members of the HCF are cordially invited to a small group dinner with Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Faculty of Design.
Dinner will take place in a restaurant in the 8th Arrondissement.
Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. Previously he was the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. Prior to that, he had been the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
Dean Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, the jury of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA), the RIBA Gold Medal, and is currently involved as a consultant on a number of international architectural and urban projects.
He studied architecture at the AA, and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge. Previously he was Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Dean Mostafavi has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Staedelschule). His research and design projects have been published in many journals, including The Architectural Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre, and Daidalos.
