With an international outreach of building and urban design, London-based FOA -- Foreign Office Architects -- have put the sinuous curves in the Yokohama Ferry Terminal, a virtual house for a German corporation, a proposal for a NASA "complex" on Mars (to be completed in 2013), and perhaps less ambitiously, a Pompidou outpost. Unusually for au courrant architects, their "look" is determined by the local rather than a signature style. Having recently won the chance to re-house the Beeb's precious music box, the Spanish-Iranian, husband-and-wife team of Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi are certainly becoming the building name about town. Formed in 1992, after paying their dues with Rem Koolhass and Renzo Piano, FAO are currently having their first solo show at the ICA.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo (bn. 1963) and Farshid Moussavi (bn. 1965) live and work in London, England.



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