Liza Fior

Liza Fior (born 1962)[1][2] is a British architect and designer. She is one of the founding partners of muf architecture/art, a London-based practice of architects, artists and urban designers.[3]

Career

muf architecture/art

MUF is a collaborative group of architects, artists and designers who specialise in the design of urban public spaces. The practice works with the public realm of architecture, addressing the spatial, social and economic infrastructures of the built environment.[4]

Fior was involved with the muf project of a new town square for Barking, East London, for which they were awarded the 2008 European Prize for Public Space, a first for the UK.[5]

Academic

Fior teaches at Central Saint Martins, a constituent college of the University of the Arts London.[6] In spring 2009, she taught as a Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University's School of Architecture, leading an advanced design studio and seminar.[7][8]

Fior was part of the international jury of the inaugural ArkDes Call for Fellows in 2018.[9] She participated in the Art is Happening Jordbro 2016-2018 focusing on public art in the late modernist dwelling area of Jordbro, Haninge, Sweden.[10]

References
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  2. "Liza Fior - Person - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  3. "Liza Fior - Person - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  4. "Liza Fior | Exploratorium". Exploratorium. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  5. "Liza Fior (MUF architecture/art) | ARCAM". www.arcam.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  6. Martins, Central Saint. "Liza Fior". Central Saint Martins. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  7. "Liza Fior | Exploratorium". Exploratorium. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  8. "Endowed Professorships - Yale Architecture". Yale Architecture. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  9. "ArkDes Fellowship - ArkDes - Swedens national centre for architecture and design". ArkDes - Swedens national centre for architecture and design. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  10. "Muf architecture/arts Liza Fior on why they went to Jordbro". statenskonstrad.se. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
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