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Foreign Office Architecture

Foreign Office Architecture was founded by Farshid Moussavi (b. 1965, Iran; M.Arch., Harvard University) and Alejandro Zaela-Polo (b. 1963, Madrid, Spain; M.Arch., Harvard University) in 1992 in London. Through residential, institutional and corporate projects, FOA has contributed significantly to treatments of ground and site in recent architecture. With their enveloping surfaces, folds and pleats, in which landscape and building seem to morph into one another, their projects typically assert a strong sculptural presence while fulfilling their functional and structural roles. This approach is most evident in their well-known design for the Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Yokohama, Japan (2002). FOA has exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (1996), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, and the Architectural Association, London.