Mohsen mostafavi biography of martin
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Talking Objects
Martin Roth, Mohsen Mostafavi
Blythe House has a remarkable history. It’s an impressive edifice in West Kensington that was built between and to house the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank. For the past 35 years the V&A, British Museum, and Science Museum have each maintained a wing in the building to store their reserve collections—objects not on display in the museums. Members of the public can also view these objects by appointment.
Martin Roth
I couldn’t believe it when I received the news that the UK government was planning to sell it. It will be a huge challenge to relocate the collections, but it’s also a great opportunity to develop a new kind of flexible storage system that meets the multiple needs of the museums and their visitors.
Today, we use storage completely differently from the way we did 30 or 40 years ago. Back then, museum storage facilities were like cellars, like archives or places where you put objects and left t
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Mohsen Mostafavi: Sharing Tokyo &#; Artifice and the Social World
Tokyo is the world’s most populated metropolitan area. Every day, millions of commuters travel to and from work, arriving to and leaving from the city’s train-stations. The dynamism of the city is beguiling. Yet, it is hard to register that much of Tokyo is a young city. An artifice, constructed from the ruins, first of the Great Kantō earthquake in , and then, of the Allied fire bombings during WWII. The city, quickly managed to rebuild itself after every disaster. Much of the charm of Tokyo is based on contrasts, between new and old, large, and small. In Tokyo, a major thoroughfare of modern buildings invariably fronts a much smaller scale, hidden, neighbourhood of older structures. It remains a city of secrets, of discoveries, and surprises. More recently, the adoption of neo-liberal policies has led to the building of a series of large-scale mixed-use projects by a small handful of big developers. The f
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Cornell Chronicle
ITHACA, N.Y. (April 14, ) -- Mohsen Mostafavi has been named dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University President Jeffrey Lehman announced today. Mostafavi, a U.S. citizen who studied at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and at the University of Cambridge, has served as chairman (equivalent to dean) of the AA since His Cornell appointment will begin July 1,
Lehman said: "Mohsen Mostafavi fryst vatten a true intellectual and a talented academic leader. He brings to Cornell an international reputation built upon an impressive track record of success on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the respect of some of the world's most renowned architectural practitioners and theorists. inom am delighted he fryst vatten joining Cornell's academic leadership."
On the heels of two successful terms as chairman of the AA, London's leading school of architecture, Mostafavi's Cornell appointment crowns an already prestigious career that