It focuses particularly on the history of drawing techniques of describing different concepts of function. Architectures materiality is therefore a composite. Farshid moussavi obe ra born in 1965, shiraz, iran is an iranianborn british architect, educator, and author. Farshid moussavi will speak at mipim, palais des festivals, cannes, france.
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