Mohsen Mostafavi: New Harvard Dean Has Designs on Our Future

Mohsen Mostafavi, the new dean at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, is much more than a man who understands lines, brick, and mortar.

He is a philosopher of sorts.

Since arriving from Cornell, where he served as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Mostafavi has been thinking about how his students can be futurists, meaning how they can use their tools today to plan for the cities we will inhabit in the years ahead.

Mostafavi, who was born in Iran, recently chatted about his research, and his plans for the future of the school.