Farshid Moussavi is an award-winning architect and founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), aiming to go beyond how we have come to think of architecture by questioning the use of buildings. Moussavi is professor in practice of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was elected Royal Academician in 2015. She has published three books, The Function of Ornament, The Function of Forms and The Function of Style, based on her research and teaching at Harvard.

In this podcast, Farshid Moussavi acknowledges the struggle of understanding and assimilating problems, means and tools arising. She finds potential in the way architecture and the digital have been meeting each other, with architects now relying on digital tools in an indispensable way. Moussavi explains how the use of the digital has led architecture back to its raw state and has liberated buildings from basic ideas of efficiency and storage into places that inspire. She appreciates new problems as opportunities for architecture to make a difference and make the world a better place.

Common Futures is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aim to empower our community to make positive change as a platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that will shape the future.

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