The other day I had the luck of attending a lecture given by Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects. In a blaze of 188 slides in just over 60 minutes she explored projects and recurring themes in her work post the Yokohama Ferry Terminal complex, for which her firm gained international fame. Her approach and analytical style leads to an architecture which does not have a direct link to aesthetics but to other factors such as location, environment, function etc...[Almost functional aesthetics - it's pretty and it also channels the rain water a specific way to a water filtration system and is in turn used in the water fountains in the building for example.] The diagrams and schematics she showed of her work was an amazing insight into a firm which does almost obsessive compulsive research into the project and it's possibilities. The result was an affirmation for me of what am I doing here and her lecture gave me fresh inspiration to continue exactly when I needed it.
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