Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work focuses on modes and processes of urbanisation and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. Mostafavi is the author and co-author of many books, including Architecture is Life and On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. His recent publications include Ecological Urbanism (co-edited 2010 with five translations published or pending); In the Life of Cities (2012); Nicholas Hawksmoor: The London Churches (2015); and the forthcoming Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political.